Sermons by Pastor Sara Funkhouser (Page 23)

Oops, ouch! Now, out of context, this may sound like phrases I mutter to myself when I accidentally run into different objects all the time, which is fairly accurate, but actually it was one of the core community agreements in my days of interfaith training. I have made a lot of community agreements in my day, especially when I served as a nation-wide training coach in…

After reading today’s Gospel story, I think I have a better idea now where my daycare mom got her ideas for conflict management with a dozen of us kids running around. I went to someone’s house every day for daycare growing up and I loved it; she really was like a bonus mom to us. And, I remember her setting some high standards for us and how we were to behave. It’s not…

There are certain experiences in life that I will never forget. I wish I could say that they are all happy memories, but unfortunately this also includes times like receiving the phone call when my grandmother died unexpectedly while I was in college, when my uncle was diagnosed with cancer, and later when my dad was on his way to come get me because we were flying down…