Podcast appearances and mentions of amy robertson

Roy L Hales/Cortes currents - What does it mean to be a neighbour on Cortes Island? This question is at the heart of the new Cortes Island Museum exhibition 'Won't You Be My Neighbour?' curated by Melanie Boyle, Managing Director of the museum and Monica Hoffman. Opening Sunday May 4th the exhibit invites visitors on a visual and narrative journey through both the historical and contemporary communities that shaped life on the island. “The  idea of focusing on neighbourhoods came from the prior exhibition, ‘From the Ground Up,” explained Hoffman. Boyle added, “We did touch on how people work together to build structures, in terms of collaboration.  It was also about repurposing material and sharing of resources and, in a way, this is also what this new exhibition is about. Collective land arrangements are a way for people to live affordably on Cortes, to share  the land, but also to share the material, resources and work collaboratively. So there's a lot of overlap.”  Monica Hoffman: “This is about those very focused areas on the island, such as Tiber Bay, Blue Jay Lake, or Siskin Lane - that sort of community, and what it means to be a neighbour is all about.”  Cortes Currents: It is also about the definition of ‘community,' in all its manifestations from the pioneer era to modern times, from ‘communal groupings' to individual dwellings. Monica Hoffman: “A focal point for this exhibition is this north facing wall where we have a map of Cortes Island. We focus on various communities and give a little bit of commentary and interviews  with  the shareholders and the landholders. Some of these we did look at briefly in the prior exhibition, but this allows there to be a bit more space and more opportunity to explore them more.”  Melanie Boyle: “Monica's right, this wall is a little microcosm of the community itself. It's a reference to all the voices that make this exhibition happen. This exhibition stemmed  from an interview we did during the last exhibition with Amy Robertson, who is one of the co-founders of Treedom. Jill Milton and Bernice McGowan interviewed Paul Kirmmse, who is one of the co-founders of Redlands.  We spoke with Ron Bazaar. Jim Murphy came into the museum and spoke about Tiber Bay.  We also interviewed Ron Wolda, more to do with the mill itself. I know Ron from selling the spoons  as a craftsperson and I didn't know his ties to Vancouver, the business community and now Tiber Bay.”  Monica Hoffman: “I didn't know where that Tiber Bay connection started.”   Melanie Boyle: “It was serendipity and people looking at that particular time for options to live on Cortes or just live on the coast.  Land comes available  and  they organize a bunch of people to get together to purchase the land. Everwoods came out of discussions that were happening at Hollyhock at the time.” “We respect the fact that these are the co-ops and collaborative living arrangements on Cortes, of people who are willing to actually share their story.  We only can profile a small handful. There are people who choose to remain private and we respect that, of course, but these would be ones that are publicly known.” 

“Why do you seek the living among the dead?” sounds like a chastisement. Until we remember that the only reason that ANYone knows that Jesus' tomb is empty is because a whole crew of faithful women showed up at the place of death, with the intention of attending to the dead. Indeed, it is only by returning again and again to the tombs of today's Empires that we can be gathered as resurrection communities who follow Jesus' call to “storm the gates of Hades” which shall never prevail against us. May we keep seeking (and finding!) the living (and life!) among the dead (and places of death!). May we do so until every gate to hell is crumbled and ALL are free.Sermon begins at minute marker 2:12Luke 24.1-12Resources:BibleWorm podcast: Episode 638 – Remember What He Told You, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.“Not the story we wanted: An Easter and arrest story,” an emailed letter from Chris Hoke, Underground Ministries, April 18, 2025.Learn more about La Resistencia - “No estan solos; You are not alone.”Learn more about Community of Hope Mennonite Church in Bellingham WA - with gratitude for Pastor Rachael Weasley's words, shared from a letter.Image: table turning at the Northwest Detention Center; Mennonite Action “God's Love Knows No Borders” sign visible, April 2025

Join Rita Kowats as she explores the stories of Jesus healing the blind man and seeing Zaccheus.  What lessons can we learn from (literally) blind faith and a spiritual curiosity that leads to climbing trees?Luke 18.31—19.10Resources:Link to sermon text.BibleWorm podcast: Episode 529 – Loving God and Neighbor, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, JrImage: Marvin Meyer on Unsplash

Not a single palm frond or “Hosanna” in this year's Palm Sunday reading. Luke's version of Jesus' procession toward and into Jerusalem instead records people throwing their coats on the ground. Rather than simply reaching for a fallen branch, instead those participating in Jesus' political street theatre give something of themselves that costs them a little something; the way Pastor Megan's spontaneously discarded cardigan resulted in a very cold experience of worship. Thank you to the child-prophets in the church who spontaneously responded by bringing their sweaters to throw into the center of our worship circle as well. We experientially learned just how potent this action was as the crowds moved with Jesus toward his confrontation with the powers of the Empire. In our current heartbreak, may we follow the footsteps of Love Incarnate--Jesus--the Human One, who goes before us in this holy and harrowing week, and who laments with us.Luke 19.29-44 ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 635 - What Makes For Peace, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr“Kindness,” Naomi Shihab Nye, Everything Comes Next: Collected & New Poems, 222.credit to Eric Massanari, Executive Conference Minister of Pacific Northwest Mennonite Conference, and Amy Epp, Pastor of Evergreen Mennonite Church, for some of their words taken from letters written to their respective communities.More info about Mennonite Action can be found here: https://www.mennoniteaction.org/ Learn more and get involved with La Resistencia here: https://laresistencianw.org/ Lament hymn: Ya hamala Allah, sung in Arabic (trans: O Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. O Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. O Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world, grant us your peace, grant us your peace, grant us your peace)Image: discarded coats in the church courtyard, Megan Ramer Hymns: # 312, Jesus is Coming; music: Bret Hesla (USA) text: Bret Hesla (USA). Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.# 321 Ya hamala Allah; music: Yusuf Khill, Palestine/Israel text: Arabic; from Latin liturgy, "Agnus Dei" (Rome), ca. 7th c., based on John 1:29, Yusuf Khill (Palestine/Israel) Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

This Lukan fable has a pretty clear message: Wealth creates an impassable crevasse between humans. Wealth is only one of the many things that can create impassable crevasses between people; so too can race and religion and immigration status, to name a few more. But I have to believe the fable is ultimately meant to inspire us to bridge crevasses before it's too late. This sermon will take you to the midnight bedroom of Ebenezer Scrooge, to the summit of Mt. Rainier (aka “mama Tahoma”), to a jail cell in Durham NC, and to an Executive Board decision of some uncharacteristically speedy Mennonites. Buckle up and come along for the ride; we need one another more than ever. And please remember: I do not answer questions. I do not answer questions. I do not answer questions. We keep each other safe, beloveds.Sermon begins at minute marker 5:22Luke 16.19-31ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 633 - The Rich Man and Lazarus, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr'Crevice' and 'Crevasse': A Gap in Meaning, Merriam-Webster.Anabaptist Community BibleNew release: “MC USA and more than two dozen Christian and Jewish denominations and associations sue to protect religious freedoms,” February 11, 2025.Isaac Samuel Villegas, Migrant God: A Christian Vision for Immigrant Justice (Eerdmans, 2025), 6-8.Front Light podcast, by Mennonite Action, “From ‘quiet in the land' to suing the US Government, reflections on Mennonite advocacy with Iris de León-Hartshorn,” Season 1, Episode 4 (2025). Mennonite Action: “God's Love Knows No Borders” actions, 2025.Know Your Rights with ICE, by WAISN (Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network)Rebecca Solnit, A piece for all hard times. Excerpt: “They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.  You may need to grieve or scream or take time off, but you have a role no matter what, and right now good friends and good principles are worth gathering in. Remember what you love. Remember what loves you. Remember in this tide of hate what love is. The pain you feel is because of what you love.”Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, 1843.Image: Ladder bridging crevasse on Mt. Rainier; G310ScottS, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsHymn 149 - Forgive, Forgive Us, Holy God. Text: Shirley Erena Murray (Aotearoa/New Zealand)  Music: Barbara Hamm (USA), © 1996 & © 2016 Hope Publishing Company. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Jesus desires our ingathering, and we so often are not willing. Jesus goes belly up, like a fierce yet vulnerable mother hen in the presence of a fox, ready to take us under the shelter of her wings. Are we willing? And what might we learn from Jesus about lament?Sermon begins at minute marker 6:00​​​​Luke 13.1-8, 31-35ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 631 – A Lament Over Jerusalem, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, JrBarbara Brown Taylor, “As a Hen Gathers her Brood,” The Christian Century.Jewish Voices for Peace action: call your reps to demand the release of student activist and U.S. permanent resident, Mahmoud Khalil, abducted by the DHS on March 8, 2025.Image: “Christ the Mother Hen,” Kelly Latimore iconsHymn 298 - What Is the World Like. Text: Adam M. L. Tice (USA), 2009, © 2011 GIA Publications, Inc. Music:  Sally Ann Morris (USA).  Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

One familiar story which contains a familiar parable flows into another familiar story. Is there anything at all new to say about the Samaritan that's called “good” or the Mary and Martha sisterly tiff? Unclear. But given our deep dive into Luke, and looking for threads, Pastor Megan notices two things: Luke is driving home that 1) we are meant to be moved with compassion, and 2) we are implored to listen to Jesus. Both are imperative in Luke's gospel, and in Luke's understanding of what it means to walk the Way of Jesus, with faces turned toward Jerusalem. Taken together, Megan wonders if there's a thematic thread of urgency. There's false urgencies that cause us to sidestep one in need (rooted in white supremacy culture), and real urgency to prepare for and engage resistance to empire (rooted in our call to collective liberation). Somehow we are invited to discern well between the Big Urgency and the little urgencies so that we can be sustained on this discipleship path taking us on a collision course with the corrupt powers of the world.Sermon begins at minute marker 4:53​​​​ Luke 10.25-42ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 630 – Two Sisters and a Good Samaritan, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, JrUrgency, a characteristic of white supremacy culturePeople's Institute for Survival and BeyondImage: this is a detail of a larger piece by artist, Dona Park, from the Anabaptist Community BibleHymn 527 - Bless the Arms That Comfort. Text: Mary Louise Bringle (USA), © 2001 The Hymn Society (admin. Hope Publishing Co.) Music: Gustav Holst (England), 1906. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Visiting guest preacher Rachael Weasley shares about what her queer church plant is up to these days, and explores today's passage in a queer way.Sermon begins at minute marker 3:43.Scripture: ​​​​Luke 7:36-50ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 529 – Loving God and Neighbor, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jrhttps://bcmonline.org/https://www.journeywithjesus.net/Image: by Prafull Kawate on Pexels.

Fetus John the Baptist knew exactly who Jesus was, according to Luke. Adult John the Baptist sends emissaries to ask Jesus who he is. Jesus does not answer John's question, but rather instructs the question-askers to simply report what they see and what they hear. It seems that, according to Jesus, his identity must be shown, enacted, embodied for it to be real. Similarly, our Anabaptist faith has a centuries-long history of being done, enacted, embodied. Our faith is a lived faith and has traditionally been proclaimed more in deed than in word. This is why the decision of our denomination to be the named plaintiff in a lawsuit against the Dept. of Homeland Security (Mennonite Church USA et al. v. United States Department of Homeland Security et al.) is completely in line with our 500-year history of following Jesus. Because our faith IS caring for our neighbor. So when the U.S. Government tries to prevent us from doing that, the free exercise of our religion is compromised and we must resist.Sermon begins at minute marker 6:18Luke 7:18-35ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 626 – Are You Really the One?, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, JrIris de León-Hartshorn, “Our Anabaptist Witness as Mennonites,” (theological basis for legal action taken by Mennonite Church USA - see link below) February 12, 2025.“MC USA and more than two dozen Christian and Jewish denominations and associations sue to protect religious freedoms,” February 11, 2025.Mary H. Schertz, Luke, Believers Church Bible Commentary (Herald Press, 2023), 166.“Orthopraxy,” wikipedia article.Image: A valentine to Mennonite Church USA: “Roses are red | Violets are blue | You sued the President | I think I love you!”VT Hymn 428 Praise with Joy the World's Creator. Text: Iona Community (Scotland), 1985, alt., © 1987 WGRG, Iona Community (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.) Music: John Goss (England), The Supplemental Hymn and Tune Book, 1869. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Jesus sees a woman and is moved with compassion to respond. But what about all the other women, humans, creatures, who also needed his compassionate response??? And what about the root causes of her suffering - Shouldn't he have fixed the systems instead??? Jesus sees a woman - really looks at her - and is moved to respond. May we who seek to follow Jesus do the same. May we, out of (legitimate!) concern for scalability and systems, never overthink our way to paralysis when given the opportunity and impulse to respond with compassion. Goodness knows, our country and our world need all the compassion that each one of us can muster.Sermon begins at minute marker 6:02Luke 7:1-17ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 625 – A Centurion's Slave and a Widow's Son, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr“A Jesus Who Troubles,” sermon on this text by Pastor Megan Ramer (sermon begins at minute 15:35), 2021."Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it." (Rabbi Tarfon, from the Pirkei Avot, 2:16)“Blessing in the Chaos,” by Jan Richardson; also appears in her book The Cure for Sorrow: A Book of Blessings for Times of Grief (79), 2016.Kate Bowler quote, from an instagram reel, February 2025.Vivek Murthy quote, taken from the Kate Bowler reel linked above.VT Hymn 647, There Is A Balm in Gilead. Text & Music: African American Spiritual. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Sabbath was to be the fountain around which the garden of all public life and policy grew in ancient Israel. On six days the people were to work, tending that garden, ensuring its health and growth and accessibility to all people, and on the seventh day they were to participate in the proper end and fulfillment of all work: reception of the fruits of perfect sanctuary. In rabbinic tradition, it is taught that if the people observe Sabbath completely and perfectly even once, the Messiah will come. The world where the sanctuary of Sabbath is truly established is the Promised Land.Sermon begins at minute marker 5:07 ​​​​Luke 6:1–16ResourcesHeschel, Abraham Joshua. “The Sabbath”.Martin Luther King, Jr., "Beyond Vietnam": Speech at Riverside Church Meeting, New York, N.Y., April 4, 1967. In Clayborne Carson et al., eds., Eyes on the Prize: A Reader and Guide (New York: Penguin, 1987), 201-04.BibleWorm podcast: Episode 529 – Loving God and Neighbor, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, JrImage by Ilya SchorHymn 556 I Bind My Heart This Tide. Text: Lauchlan M. Watt (Scotland), The Tryst: A Book of the Soul, 1907, alt. Music: J. Randall Zercher (USA), 1965, The Mennonite Hymnal, 1969, © 1965 J. Randall Zercher. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Three major commemorations converged last week: the birth of the Anabaptist movement, the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (and the broader movement of which he was part, including our Anabaptist ancestors, Rosemarie and Vincent Harding), and the anniversary of the first national collective action of Mennonite Action. Thanks to the Pastoral Team for Mennonite Action, we notice a thread through these significant commemorations: “the willingness of ordinary people to take actions that simultaneously speak a no and a yes.” Another story for today: fisherfolk in Luke's gospel who leave everything (including a mountain of fish, representing a mountain of wealth) to follow Jesus. God, grant us wisdom and courage as we join these many ancestors of ours in walking a path that says NO to security and status quo and YES to the risky, uncertain, and liberating Way of Jesus.Sermon begins at 6:14Scripture: ​​​​Luke 5:1–11ResourcesThis sermon was taken whole cloth (with some of my own riffs added) from “Prayers for a significant week” from the Mennonite Action Pastoral Team, January 20, 2025.Anabaptist Community BibleEpiscopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde imploring President Trump to “have mercy” on immigrants and LGBTQ people targeted by his policies, at the end of her inaugural prayer service sermon in the National Cathedral, Washington D.C.: video clip linked here.The Movement Makes Us Human: An Interview with Dr. Vincent Harding on Mennonites, Vietnam, and MLK, Joanna Shenk, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2018Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering, Rosemarie Freeney Harding, with Rachel Elizabeth Harding, Duke University Press, 2015.BibleWorm podcast: Episode 623 - The Call of Simon, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jrothers?Image: covers of the two Harding books noted aboveHymn 57 Holy Spirit, Come with Power. Text: Anne Neufeld Rupp (USA), © 1970 Anne Neufeld Rupp, trans. Barbara Mink (USA), © 1988 Music: attr. B. F. White (USA), The Sacred Harp, 1844; harm. Joan Fyock Norris (USA), © 1989 Joan Fyock Norris. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

There's lots going on in this story from Luke, and also in this sermon from Pastor Megan, and also in the story of our Anabaptist roots, and also in the congregational life of Seattle Mennonite Church. It's all a bit of a mess, to be quite frank. But at the heart of all four stories (the gospel, the sermon, the history, and SMC today) is baptism and the co-creation embedded in a covenant community. Come along for the slightly wild ride!Sermon begins at minute marker 6:22Luke 3.1-22ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 621 – John the Baptist and the Baptism of Jesus, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr“The Most Radical Reformers,” Valerie G. Rempel, Anabaptist World, Vol. 6 No. 1, January 2025.InterPlay practice of “I could talk about” - read a brief description here: https://atlantainterplay.blogspot.com/2014/03/i-could-talk-about.html Image: detail from the cover of Anabaptist World, Vol. 6 No. 1, January 2025 - “Fugitive congregation at worship, Amsterdam, 1569, by Jan Luyken.”Hymn 212 Comfort, Comfort O my People. Text: based on Isaiah 40:1-5; Johannes Olearius (Germany), “Tröstet, tröstet, meine Lieben,” Geistliche Singe-Kunst, 1671; trans. Catherine Winkworth (England), Chorale Book for England, 1863, alt. Music: Louis Bourgeois (France), Genevan Psalter, Octante Trois Pseaumes de David, 1551; harm. adapt. from Claude Goudimel (France), 150 Pseaumes de David, 1564  Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

When the writer of Luke's gospel litters his stories with the names of politicians and references to their political maneuverings, we are meant to pay attention. When the tale of a 12-year-old Jesus choosing to remain in the temple occurs DURING THE PASSOVER… and IN JERUSALEM… we are meant to notice. It is, after all, bookended with the story Luke will tell at what turns out to be the very end of Jesus' life, also during the Passover and also in Jerusalem. What occurs in both occasions is a potent confluence of religion and politics. And, in Jesus' very first independent decision in recorded history, he opts to stay at that confluence. Jesus chose to remain where faith was potent, consequential, and in direct conversation with the politics of his day. Perhaps we who follow in his Way are invited to do the same.Sermon begins at minute marker 4:50Luke 2.41-52ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 620 – The Boy Jesus in the Temple, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, JrMany online resources tell a version of the events that took place in Zürich on January 21, 1525. An account from the GAMEO article on Zürich. An article from the Anabaptist World in 2015, by Valerie G. Rempel: “The Birth of Anabaptism.” Much can, has, and must be said to complicate often over-simplified stories of a monogenesis of Anabaptism, and over-emphasis on this story, as well!Wikipedia article on Josephus.Image: William Holman Hunt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (LINK TO IMAGE)Hymn 223 Bless'd Be the God of Israel. Text: based on Luke 1:68-79; Michael A. Perry (England), Psalm Praise, 1973, © 1973 Hope Publishing Co. Music: George J. Webb (USA), 1830; The Odeon, 1837. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

As we wait for God's “Big L” Liberating Love to be fully realized, we are called to BE God's love of ourselves, for one another, and for all creation. We enter the story of Mary, and then Mary with Elizabeth, to see how this love begets more love and eventually changes the whole world.Sermon begins at minute marker 5:41.Luke 1.26-56 ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 617 - The Annunciation of Mary, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr“Continue” by Maya AngelouImage: Henry Ossawa Tanner (American, 1859-1937) The Annunciation Hymn 221 - The Angel Gabriel Called Mary Blessed:  text: Sarah Kathleen Johnson (Canada), © 2019; inspired by Basque carol “Birjina gaztetto bat zegoen,” paraphr. Sabine Baring-Gould (England), “The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came,” University Carol Book, 1923. Music: Basque traditional; harm. attr. C. Edgar Pettman (England), University Carol Book, 1923. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Advent is a home for our longing that is at once ancient and new every day. We join our longing for the full inbreaking of God's justice, peace, and liberating love to the longing of our forebears in the faith. Like them, we continue to wait while also being called into embodying our hope. Not because the conditions seem optimistic, but - in the face of any and all circumstances, with broken hearts - we “nevertheless / even now” enact our collective hope in the world around us.Sermon begins at minute marker 3:58Scripture: ​​​​Joel 2.12-13, 28-29ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 615 – Rend Your Hearts, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, JrImage: Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Hymn 216 - Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming. Text: stanzas 1–2 anon., “Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen,” (present-day Germany), 15th c.; Alte Catholische Geistliche Kirchengasäng, 1599; trans. Theodore Baker (USA), 1894; stanza 3 Friedrich Layritz (Germany), Liederschatz, 1832; trans. Harriet K. Spaeth (USA), The Hymnal, 1940, alt. Music: German traditional, 15th c.; Alte Catholische Geistliche Kirchengasäng, 1599; harm. Michael Praetorius (Germany), Musae Sionae VI, 1609. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

What does it mean to sing “Holy holy holy is God” NOT to God, but to one another? Might Isaiah's magnificent and poetic imagery of the seraphim singing their praise of God's holiness TO one another be received as an invitation to do the same?Sermon begins at minute marker 4:11 Scripture: ​​​​Isaiah 6.1-8 ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 612 – Here I Am Send Me!, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.“Before I Was a Gazan,” Naomi Shihab Nye, from Everything Comes Next: Collected & New Poems (2020), 100.“A Few Rules For Predicting the Future,” Octavia E. Butler (2000), 7-15.“Schrödinger's Seraphim,” Vija Merrill.Releasing friend of SMC met through the One Parish One Prisoner program of Underground Ministries.Image: Seraphim in Hagia Sofia, in Istanbul Türkiye, photo by Pastor Megan Ramer.Hymn: Voices Together 156 - There's a Wideness in God's Mercy. Text: Frederick W. Faber (England), Hymns, 1861. Music: Lizzie S. Tourjee (USA), Hymnal of the Methodist Church with Tunes, 1878. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Jonah sought to protect his own people when God's compassion and mercy were to extend to the repentant beyond Israel's borders. Fairness, justice and truth are to be balanced with compassion and mercy by God's definition and ways rather than our limited vision of who is repentant, when and how. Universal Saving expands when our small actions, reflections and words join together in a chorus of abundant love for all, which is no guarantee of outcome. Sermon starts at minute marker 5:34Scripture: ​​​​Jonah 3.1-10ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 611 Jonah and the Compassion of God, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, JrImage by Adam Krypel on pexelsHymn: Voices Together 283 - Lord, You Have Come to the Lakeshore. Text:  Spanish; Cesáreo Gabarain (Spain); trans. composite Gertrude C. Suppe (USA), George Lockwood IV (USA), Raquel Gutiérrez-Achon (USA), Willard F. Jabusch (USA), alt.  Music: Cesáreo Gabarain, 1979, Dios con nosotros. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

What happens when a raven and a prophet form a little community of care? How about a Hebrew man and Phoenician widow - across religious and political divides? According to our storyteller, the needs of all are met, and the storyteller calls this God's provision. Might this tale of unlikely dependencies be just the sort of good news we need in these tense and teetering days?Sermon begins at minute marker 3:20​​​​1 Kings 17.1-16ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 610 – Elijah and the Widow of Zarephath, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, JrConsider the Birds: A Provocative Guide to Birds of the Bible, Debbie Blue (Abingdon Press), 2013.“If you think you can hold a grudge, consider the crow,” Thomas Fuller, NYT, October 28, 2024.Beef, by Lee Sung JinThe Birds, by Alfred HitchcockHeckling, by an opinionated SMC birder

Solomon sets out to build a house for God, as people across time and place have done over and over again. But even in the dedication prayer, Solomon acknowledges that God cannot be contained by a building, regardless of size or grandness or even how delicious it smells. Just as Pastor Megan's delicious-smelling cedar chest could never contain her bounty of beautiful quilts, so too Solomon's cedar temple could never contain the enormity of God. Houses for God have never been about or for God, so much as they are for a people, seeking to create sacred spaces for living in relationship with one another and God; a people seeking to recharge their spiritual batteries.Sermon begins at minute marker 5:421 Kings 5.1-5, and 8.27-30, 41-43ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 609 – Dedicating the Temple, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, JrRainer Maria Rilke, “Ich bin, du Ängtlicher. Hörst do mich nicht,” from Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God, trans. Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy, 66.Image: rendering of quilts stacked at SMC during our Jubilee celebration, 2018.Voices Together Hymn 647 There is a Balm in Gilead. Text & Music: African American Spiritual (USA) Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Whether in tents or temples, God is present and abiding with the Israelites and their descendants. God's living promise is a loving extensive, generational commitment/covenant among, between and with us just as we are: the only tabernacle God needs. Sermon begins at minute marker 4:47.2 Samuel 7:1-17ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 608: I'll Build You a House, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, JrImage: Comet traversing twilight sky Hymn 748 Take, O Take Me As I Am Text: John L. Bell (Scotland)  Music: John L. Bell Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Hannah's Song, often referred to as The Magnificat of the First Testament, is a collection of Hannah's utopian dreams. She sings of a world where the bows of the warriors are broken and where God lifts the poor from the ash heap and sits them with princes. This sermon explores Hannah's life and story, from which her dreams grew, and it follows the flow of Hannah's dreamsong as it cascaded down through the centuries, inspiring Mary of Nazareth and inspiring us. “Hannah's Dreamsong” was delivered by Tyler Merrill, who is currently in candidacy for Seattle Mennonite Church's Pastor of Faith Formation position. It also serves in part as Tyler's self-introduction to the congregation.Sermon begins at minute marker 5:371 Samuel 1.9-11, 19-20, and 2.1-10ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 529 – Loving God and Neighbor, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, JrThe Poet, The Warrior, The Prophet. Collection of essays in theopoetics delivered by Rubem A Alves at the University of Birmingham in 1990.Image: Mary: Love Forever Being Born Icon by Kelly Latimore, used with permission. kellylatimoreicons.com

The Hebrew people grow weary of their supposed leader leaving them behind, and - in Moses' absence - they ask for a symbol to represent God? Replace God? Hold them together as a community in a very destabilized time? Unclear, but even as we seek to empathize with a people who long for SOMEthing to keep them together, God and Moses are nonetheless displeased. And set about bickering over whose people they are. In the midst of this squabble, Moses appeals to God's reputation: “What will the Egyptians say about you if you choose destruction?!” Preparing ourselves to participate in another sacred symbol on this World Communion Sunday - bread and cup with all who seek to walk in the Way of Jesus - we wonder how our public actions and presence (or lack thereof) contribute to God's reputation in the world.Sermon begins at minute marker 7:09Exodus 32.1-14 ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 605 – The Golden Calf, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr“End Game,” lyrics by Taylor Swift.Mennonite Action - A movement of Mennonites taking action, explicitly AS MENNONITE-CHRISTIANS, to stop war and end the occupation of Palestine.Song: A Recitation of Psalm 40, in IsiNdebele (a language of Zimbabwe), sung by Bongiwe Ncube.Image: Small statue of the Golden Calf, Louvre museum (Paris, France), Wikimedia Commons.Hymn 717 - Renew Your Church. Text: K. L. Cober (USA), 1960, alt., © 1960 K. L. Cober, renewed 1985 Judson Press Music: American traditional (USA), 1842; adapt. Sacred Harp, 1844. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

A sermon about a 25 chapter novella, in three parts: 1) Joseph actually had an amazing technicolor princess dress, and isn't that both telling and fabulous?! 2) Love unevenly distributed produces division, resentment, and - in this story - the hate-filled action of a band of brothers who traffic their beloved brother into slavery, and it's that terrible?! 3) If (or when) you go through hell, don't come out empty-handed, and isn't it tricky to say anything at all about suffering and the good we sometimes wrest from it?!Sermon begins at minute marker 8:03Genesis 37.3-8, 17b-22, 26-34; 50.15-21ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 603 – Evil Made Good, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr“Don't Come Out Empty Handed,” Kate Bowler's podcast, Everything Happens, interview with Rabbi Steve Leder.“Good Grief,” Kate Bowler's podcast, Everything Happens, interview with Thomas Lynch.Image: “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,” Tulane Public Relations, CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.Hymn 205 - Light Dawns on a Weary World. Text: Mary Louise Bringle (USA), 2001, © GIA Publications, Inc. Music: William P. Rowan (USA), © 2000 William P. Rowan (admin. GIA Publications, Inc.) Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Abram longs for a child that he believes God has denied him. God meets Abram in that specific need, but then leads him to a more expansive - even cosmic - view. This is a story that might be easier for aunties like me to understand: I absolutely don't have one or two or three children. I either have zero children, or I have children that number the stars. I choose the latter, and in this story God seems to agree. As a church, we claim all our children as belonging to all of us. And we explicitly bless those who devote their time and their energy to the education, mentoring, care, and love of our kids when we gather together on Sunday mornings.Sermon begins at minute marker 4:24Genesis 15.1-6ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 602 – Trusting the Promise, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr“Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story,” Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton.Image: Photo by note thanun on UnsplashHymn: Voices Together, 175, Planets Humming as They Wander. Text: Heather Josselyn-Cranson (USA), alt., © 2010 Heather Josselyn-Cranson Music: Sally Ann Morris (USA), 2009, © 2016 GIA Publications, Inc. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

We start a new Narrative Lectionary year at a very good place to start: In the beginning… We begin with the genesis of all things, and it doesn't take long for everything to devolve into deception, messing up, shame, hiding from God, and scapegoating. If our ancient Hebrew forebears in the faith told this story because they - like us - knew their overwhelming capacity to screw up royally, then I think it's telling to back up a few steps and see how they START that story. Despite what some may have you believe, their story (and ours) does not originate with sin, but with the tender shaping of soil, the intimate breathing of life, and holy belovedness.Sermon begins at minute marker 6:22​​​​Genesis 2.4b-7, 15-17; 3.1-8ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 601 – The Knowledge of Good and Evil, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, JrWikipedia article on the doctrine of “Original Sin” and Augustine's shaping of it.“Beloved Is Where We Begin,” blessing by Jan Richardson, also published in her book, Circle of Grace.Image: Photo by Quino Al on Unsplash Hymn: 531 Holy Presence, Holy Teacher. Text: Shirley Erena Murray (Aotearoa New Zealand), alt., © 2008 Hope Publishing Co. Music: C. Hubert H. Parry (England), 1897. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from ONE LICENSE, license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Rick Howard, The CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at N2K Cyber, discusses the current state of MITRE ATT&CK with CyberWire Hash Table guests Frank Duff, Tidal Cyber's Chief Innovation Officer, Amy Robertson, MITRE Threat Intelligence Engineer and ATT&CK Engagement lead, and Rick Doten, Centene's VP of Information Security. References: Amy L. Robertson, 2024. ATT&CK 2024 Roadmap  [Essay]. Medium. Blake E. Strom, Andy Applebaum, Doug P. Miller, Kathryn C. Nickels, Adam G. Pennington, Cody B. Thomas, 2018. MITRE ATT&CK: Design and Philosophy [Historical Paper]. MITRE. Eric Hutchins, Michael Cloppert, Rohan Amin, 2010. Intelligence-Driven Computer Network Defense Informed by Analysis of Adversary Campaigns and Intrusion Kill Chains [Historic Paper]. Lockheed Martin Corporation. Nick Selby, 2014. One Year Later: The APT1 Report [Essay]. Dark Reading. Rick Howard, 2023. Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics [Book]. Goodreads. Rick Howard, 2020. Intrusion kill chains: a first principle of cybersecurity.  [Podcast]. The CyberWire. Rick Howard, 2022. Kill chain trifecta: Lockheed Martin, ATT&CK, and Diamond. [Podcast]. The CyberWire. Rick Howard, 2020. cyber threat intelligence (CTI) (noun) [Podcast]. Word Notes: The CyberWire. Kevin Mandia, 2014. State of the Hack: One Year after the APT1 Report [RSA Conference Presentation]. YouTube. SAHIL BLOOM, 2023. The Blind Men & the Elephant [Website]. The Curiosity Chronicle. Sergio Caltagirone, Andrew Pendergast, and Christopher Betz. 05 July 2011. The Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis. Center for Cyber Threat Intelligence and Threat Research.[Historical Paper] Staff, n.d. Home Page [Website]. Tidal Cyber. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Struck by Mark's mention that Jesus sits across from the treasury box in the Temple, observing HOW each person gives their money, Pastor Megan ponders what Jesus might observe in how SHE lives with her own money (and for this Way walked together, how WE live with ours). Would Jesus be glad that the widow gives her last mite and has nothing to live on, or might Jesus be praising the widow for revealing - by her courageous and some might even say confrontational act - the baked-in injustice of the system that leaves a widow with only a mite in the first place? And what does love of God, self, and neighbor have to do with it all?Sermon begins at minute marker 6:38Mark 12.28-44ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 529 – Loving God and Neighbor, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.Image: Melissa KellyVT 552 "As a deer…"  #10783 Words: Psalm 42  Music: Louis Bourgeois, Genevan Psalter. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Jesus' entry into Jerusalem is a deliberate act of political confrontation with the Roman Empire's powers-that-be. After casing the mostly deserted late evening Temple, he makes plans to return the next day to make a royal mess of things; to disrupt business as usual. The Way Jesus walks, the Way that Jesus calls us to walk (together!), is a Way lined with palms that leads to confrontation with Empire.Sermon begins at minute marker 5:03Mark 11.1-19ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 531 – The Triumphal Entry, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.Ched Myers, “Palm Sunday As Subversive Street Theatre,” posted on Radical Discipleship, 2021.Marcus J. Borg & John Dominic Crossan, The Last Week: A Day-to-Day Account of Jesus' Final Week (Harper, 2007).Image: Melissa KellyVT 146 Lord Jesus, Come and Overturn #99565 words: David Gambrell music: Klug's Geistliche Lieder ©2015 GIA Publications, Inc. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

The cries of the suffering are not always polite. When we are suffering, can we let loose and trust our community to hold us? When our neighbors are suffering, can we build our resilience in the face of their screams for justice, for relief, for healing, for mercy?Sermon begins at 6:41ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 527 – The Healing of Bartimaeus, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.Image: Melissa KellyVT 610 Precious Lord, Take My Hand #73682 Words: Thomas Dorsey, Music: George Allen ©1938,1966 Hal Leonard Corporation. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Jesus' guide for discipleship invites us to rethink our expectations of what discipleship means and who disciples are. Embedded in the invitation is a deep look meeting the soul of our being with enduring love and perpetual hospitality  to embrace the next steps of faith-filled following the Jesus Way. Sermon begins at minute marker 5:37Mark 10:17-31 ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: ⦁ Episode 526 – The Eye of the Needle, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.Mark: Believers Church Bible Commentary, Timothy J Geddert; Herald Press, 2001.Narrative Language Lectionary: 570 First Last and Last FirstTricia Hersey, Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto; New York: Little, Brown Spark, 2022Richard Rohr, “The Need for Mysticism”, Daily Meditations, August 2, 2020. Image: Nagara Oyodo on unsplashHymn VT 758 Who Will Speak a Word of Warning text: Richard Leach, © 2000 Selah Publishing Co., Inc. music: Alfred V. Fedak, 1988, © 1989 Selah Publishing Co., Inc. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

I can talk about a woman who experiences a minimum of three healings in one healing story. The first is busting through all sorts of internal and external barriers to step out her door and into a crowd. The second is reaching for the hem of Jesus' cloak to seize a cure for her illness. And the third is - with one word - being restored as family, reclaimed as belonging. I can talk about Jesus making a powerful one wait in order to give his full attention and presence to a marginalized one. And I can talk about - especially in a moment of big transition or uncertainty - never underestimating the power of food.Sermon begins at minute marker 4:06Narrative Lectionary, Year 3ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 522 – Healing Interrupted, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.Image: Photo by William Farlow on UnsplashHymn VT 519: God, Give Me Faith Like A Child. Text - Adam M. L. Tice, 2012, © 2013, GIA Publications, Inc Music - Sally Ann Morris, b.1952, © 2013, GIA Publications, Inc. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Tempted to avert our gaze from the mention of “evil spirit” or “demon”, instead Pastor Megan chooses to hold this story's gaze and look for what may be true… then and now. What is true? What binds humans is indeed legion. What liberates humans is indeed Jesus. Who liberates humans is indeed us. Whew. Buckle up as we explore what makes demons tremble.Sermon begins at minute marker 5:05Mark 5.1-20ResourcesIntersectionality: In the sermon, I credit the origin of intersectionality to the women of the Combahee River Collective. In fact, Kimberlé Crenshaw should be credited with the origination of the term, in a pair of essays from 1989 and 1991. The work of the Combahee River Collective, particularly their work on ‘simultaneity' in the 1970s, laid a foundation for Crenshaw's development of the concept of ‘intersectionality'. But credit for coining the term and more fully developing the concept of ‘intersectionality' belongs to Crenshaw!BibleWorm podcast: Episode 521 – Making the Demons Tremble, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.Frank Peretti wrote a series of fiction books depicting demons, angels, and ‘spiritual warfare' for a largely Pentecostal and more conservative evangelical Christian audience through the 1980s and beyond. I'm still recovering from the images his terrifying books emblazoned on my young impressionable brain.Ruth C. Duck hymn text published in Voices Together 642, “Healing River of the Spirit” verse 3: “Living stream that heals the nations, make us channels of your power. All the world is torn by conflict; wars are raging at this hour. Saving Spirit, move among us; guide our winding human course, till we find our way together, flower homeward to our Source.”Image: Photo by Tony Rojas on UnsplashHymn: VT 285 - Cast out, O Christ. Text: Mary Louise Bringle (USA), 2002, © 2006 GIA Publications, Inc. Music: William Tans'ur (England), Harmony of Zion 1734 Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

 “All of the people shouted with praise to God because the foundation of God's house had been laid. But many of the older priests and Levites and heads of families, who had seen the first house, wept aloud when they saw the foundation of this house, although many others shouted loudly with joy. No one could distinguish the sound of the joyful shout from the sound of the people's weeping, because the people rejoiced very loudly. The sound was heard at a great distance.” Old and young, joy and sorrow, praise and weeping co-mingle in our church, in our communities, and - often - in our bodies. We sing our refrain of God's steadfastness through it all; showing up with our whole selves and honoring the whole selves who sit next to us.Sermon begins at minute marker 3:55 Ezra 1.1-4; 3.1-4, 10-13 ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 515 – Rebuilding from the Ruins, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.Image: Photo by Papaioannou Kostas on Unsplash 

Jeremiah pens some of the most beautiful words of hope to his community. But those hope-filled words are smack in the middle of horrors. Pan back even just a few verses, and one can see that Jeremiah is writing from prison, where his people are under siege by the Babylonian Empire, their towns and cities are ravaged, homes and even palaces are in rubble, and the streets are filled with corpses. sigh. What does hope even mean in the context of such devastation and sorrow in Jeremiah's world and in ours? If hope is as puny as mere optimism, it might not mean much. But hope is a fierce practice that only makes sense in the face of the hopeless. As we engage both the expectant Advent of our communal church life, and the joyous cultural festival of Christmas in the wider community, how might we stoke and nurture our practice of hope in a broken and beautiful world?Sermon begins at minute marker 5:00Jeremiah 33.10-18ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 513 – Hope Against Hope, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.“Why Christmas Is Canceled In Bethlehem,” analysis by Ishaan Tharoor, The Washington Post, November 29, 2023.Cole Arthur Riley, Black Liturgies. “Advent, a season where we make space for grief, longing, sacred darkness, and silence…” Inhale: The world feels dim. Exhale: But we dream in the dark.Jan Richardson, “That Wild Advent Hope,” sent by email November 30, 2023.Image: First Sunday of Advent at SMC 2023, photo by Pastor MeganHymn: VT 236, Creator of the Stars of Night. Words: Conditor alme siderum, 9th c.; trans. John Mason Neale (England), 1851, rev. The Hymnal, 1940, alt., © 1985 Church Pension Fund. Music: Sarum plainsong (England), ca. 9th c. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

When the Very Good King Josiah is informed that a long lost scroll has been found in the dusty corner of a closet, he rends his garments in mourning for himself and for his people. Despite his commitment to just labor practices, and the narrator's assurance that he did what was right in God's eyes, the rediscovered scroll of Deuteronomy makes clear that he and his people had been called to an even more radical life of justice-seeking. How might this story speak into our own desire to walk (together) in the liberating Way of Jesus? And what might it reveal to us about the difference between being driven by the promise of a particular outcome versus a renewable commitment to faithfulness?Sermon begins at minute marker 8:242 Kings 22.1-20; 23.1-3ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 512 – Finding the Torah, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.Learn more about Underground Ministries' One Parish One Prisoner program.Dozens of Doughnuts, by Carrie Finison.Image: Photo by Pastor Megan, at the Federal Building in Seattle, November 2023Hymn: VT 406, Because the Words We Wait to Hear. Text: Jane Manton Marshall. Music:: © 2003, Wayne Leupold Editions. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

The prophet Isaiah writes poetry: to express deep love between God and God's beloveds, to convey heartache, to cleverly and poignantly pierce through word play, to evoke hope and catalyze action, to faithfully proclaim the truest nature of God. If poetry is good enough for Isaiah, pastor Megan suggests, it might just be good enough for us. We hear of sacred love, heartbreak, longing, and conviction from poets Jane Kenyon, Naomi Shihab Nye, Marwan Makhoul, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Lucille Clifton. Come along for the ride!sermon begins at minute marker 4:41 Isaiah 5.1-7; 11.1-5ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 510– The Song of the Vineyard and the Stump of Jesse, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.Jane Kenyon, “Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks,” Collected Poems, 2005.Naomi Shihab Nye, “Kindness,” Words Under the Words: Selected Poems, 1995.Maxine Hong Kingston, The Fifth Book of Peace, 2003.Lucille Clifton, "spring song," The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1987.After sharing this sermon in poetry, someone in the congregation reminded me of this gorgeous and piercing musical rendition of Isaiah's poetry, by the inimitable Sinead O'Connor, may she rest in peace: “If You Had a Vineyard” Image: Marwan Makhoul, trans. Zeina Hashem Beck, via Gaza Poets Society, https://www.instagram.com/p/CO3URKVgw7M/Hymn: Hymn: VT 161 I Sought The Lord. Text: Holy Songs, Carols, and Sacred Ballads (USA), 1880 Music: J. Harold Moyer (USA), 1965, The Mennonite Hymnal, © 1969 Faith & Life Press/Mennonite Publishing House (admin. MennoMedia) Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929 and #57595. All rights reserved.

Much could be said of the exaggerated and hyperbolic showmanship of this contest Elijah sets up between himself and the prophets of Baal. But step back from the spectacle, and I want to know why the people remembered this story, told it over and over, and eventually wrote it down? Might it have to do with the quiet way that Elijah calls the people to remember who (and whose) they are. “Come closer," he says. Then, in their near presence, he silently rebuilds an altar, lays 12 stones for 12 tribes, and with simple, quiet action reminds them that they are indeed God's own. They cannot worship both God and Baal. Despite the prevailing cultural norm that they don't need to choose amongst gods, Elijah seeks to convey that they must indeed choose. And that choice is consequential. Might our central and centering practice of communion similarly help us remember who we are as God's beloveds and followers of Jesus in a world where false gods vie for our ultimate loyalties?Sermon begins at minute marker 7:151 Kings 18.17-39ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 509 – Elijah and the Prophets of Baal, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.Image: members of Seattle Mennonite Church call for a ceasefire in Gaza at an interfaith action coordinated by Jewish Voice for Peace, at the Federal Building in Seattle, November 2023Hymn: 196, Come and Seek the Ways of Wisdom. Lyrics: Ruth Duck (USA), 1993, © 1996 The Pilgrim Press. Music: Donna Kasbohm (USA), 1995, © 1997 The Pilgrim Press.  Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929, #49254 and 05032 All rights reserved.

Amidst political maneuvers, power grabs, conditional allegiances, threats, oppression, and terrible advice, a king is crowned and a kingdom divided. And precisely NOone comes out looking like a saint. We too live in violent and divided times, and while Mennonites haven't traditionally recognized the big “S” Saints of other Christian traditions, following in the Way of Jesus does mean seeking to live as a good ancestor for those who will come after. On this All Hallowed Souls and Saints Sunday, we remember the beloved souls who, having impacted our church community, joined the communion of good SMC ancestors in the last year.Sermon begins at minute marker 8:041 Kings 12.1-17, 25-29ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 508 – The Division of the Kingdom, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.“Strong, Peaceful Man of Galilee, “ Voices Together 573, text by Harry W. Farrington (1921), music by John B. Dykes (1861), tune name MELITA, often referred to as the “navy hymn”. Image by Megan Ramer, Books about SaintsHymn:  VT 672 For All the Saints, text William W. How, 1864 music: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1906. Public Domain. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Is God a megalomaniac who needs our praise? Or do we praise God because WE need it? And what about those of us who struggle with “praise” given our religious histories? Or those of us who quite simply value being thoughtful, critical, reasonable, and intelligent creatures not prone to the frenetic religious fanaticism we might associate with “praise” of God? Even if we can find our way to a meaningful and reclaimed practice of praising God, how on earth are we meant to do this - or even consider this - in a time of genocide and ethnic-cleansing in Gaza?? Pastor Megan posits that perhaps this is precisely the time we are meant to praise God. “How? Why?? WHAT???” If these are your questions, tune in and see if you get there too. Be in touch with your own thoughts!Sermon begins at minute marker 6:432 Samuel 5.1-5; 6.1-5; Psalm 150ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 507 – Praising the Lord, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.“What is worship for?” Debie Thomas, The Christian Century, October 11, 2023.To learn more and act for an end to the genocide in Gaza:The Mennonite Palestine Israel Network (MennoPIN): https://mennopin.org/Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT): https://cpt.org/programs/palestineJewish Voice for Peace (JVP): https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/ Image: Portion of the wall built by the State of Israel in Jerusalem. Photo taken by Pastor Megan Ramer on a CPT delegation to Israel and Palestine in 2003.Hymn: VT 95 Praise the Lord, Sing Hallelujah. Based on Psalm 148; The Book of Psalms, 1871; adapt. William J. Kirkpatrick (USA), ca. 1893, alt. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

Suffering from chronic pain myself, I found solace in meditation which eventually led to a breakthrough in my healing journey. In our latest episode, I share this personal experience with Amy Robertson, a fellow meditation practitioner, who echoes similar sentiments. Together, we unpick the power of meditation and mindfulness, underlining their distinctions and how even one minute of deep, conscious breathing can make a world of difference.  Our journey continues as we navigate the mystical world of crystals, gemstones, and rocks. Amy's insights into the unique qualities of these elements and how to harness their energies lead us to a conversation about animal spirit guides, an intriguing concept that promises profound messages. We also reflect on our personal experiences with these guides, who take various forms from the fierce wolf to the graceful dolphin. In the latter part of our discussion, we delve into the future and how to manifest success by following the energy of our hearts. Amy discusses how crystals can support those struggling with mental health issues, such as postpartum depression and PTSD. We also explore the power of mantras and their ability to disrupt negative loops in our minds and the universe. As we conclude, we touch on specific crystals that can assist with pain relief and the significance of journaling. We even find time to chat about our favorite protein-rich breakfasts, reminding us all to fuel our bodies as well as our minds. So, join us in this enlightening exploration into meditation, crystals, and spiritual growth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Behind Lovefest's ongoing success, and the success of so many festivals and community events around the province, is a dedicated corps of volunteers.  
 According to Amy Robertson, who oversaw this part of the festival, “We had about 60 volunteers this year. They were doing everything from making sure that  parking is safe out on the road and that the blue bus has a good place to park. Volunteers sell tickets, help the vendors and they're setting up. They do a lot of decoration for this event, help promote it, sell T- shirts, and just ensure that everybody has a good, safe time.”

What is the key to hosting real estate and client appreciation events that create community, win over followers and drive new business?Amy Robertson and Mindy Methner with the Amy + Mindy Homes and Lifestyle Team share their innovative approach to hosting real estate client events, blending creativity with professionalism. From staging homes to crafting personalized experiences, they reveal their secrets to success.Learn how to transform a typical client appreciation event into a magical experience that resonates with your clients. Understand the importance of authenticity, collaboration, and attention to detail.Get a behind-the-scenes look at how these two accomplished real estate professionals collaborate, negotiate, and bring their unique flair to the industry. Combine the expertise of real estate agents and real estate marketers, and what do you get? Modern Real Estate Marketing.Say goodbye to the time-consuming task of constantly searching for content or struggling to come up with engaging posts. Modern Real Estate Marketing has got you covered. For just $69 a month, gain access to daily social media templates, complete with descriptions and hashtags to enhance your social media presence.Ready to outshine your competitors and take your marketing efforts to the next level? We provide weekly coaching and training on all things real estate marketing to help elevate your business.Our comprehensive program offers a user-friendly platform with templates that cater to all aspects of your real estate business. We even support the use of Canva.Visit us at www.modernrealestatemarketing.com to see what we can offer to streamline your social media strategy and boost your business.#RealEstateEvents #RealEstateClientEvents #ClientAppreciationEvent #HomeStaging #RealEstateMarketTrends

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - Lovefest will be returning to Cortes Island on August 12.  “Lovefest just has its own momentum. It exists because the community wants it. There's nothing political about it. We get to enjoy some good music, have fun together and just be with each other as a community,” explained Rex Weyler, one of the key organizers.  
 Today's program consists of an interview with Rex, interspersed with songs from three of the acts coming to this year's Lovefest.  
We'll start the music off with Adonis Peuentes, the first band that Rex mentioned in our interview. 
RW: “We have five years of experience, so we're getting a little better at it. We've got a great team. Soma Feldmar, Amy Robertson, Rick Bockner, myself and others are involved every year in putting it on. We have 50 volunteers, so all of that collected experience. Lonnie Taylor's been helping from day one and Dancing Wolf does the decoration. He's great at that.”  
“We have the Community Action Bus, which we had last year for the first time ever and the Community Action Bus comes from Victoria.  It'll circle Cortes all day long, picking people up, bringing them and taking them home from the event. That really cuts down on the necessity for cars.”    
“That's what I love about Lovefest. It's evolving in a really nice direction because people are having a good time and want to contribute. I think we do a better job every year.”  “What's really special to me about this year is that we just have some great bands that have not been to Cortes yet.The Adonis Puentes Cuban band is going to be a killer.  A not new band that's not been here before is also the Unfaithful Servants from Victoria.”  
 “Pierre Schreyer and Adam Dobray were here last year and they were just such a hit fiddle player and guitar player. They're just so good  and played great fiddle dance music. People loved them, wanted them back, so they're coming back.”  
 
RW: Our friends from Quadra Island, Willow, are a wonderful singing group. They were here in 2019. I love them, they're just fantastic.  
Then a lot of our local favourites: Josephine Simpson grew up here; Michael Keith; Jemma Hicken,  Wiley Ferguson will bring his band. Wiley, by the way, had one of his compositions accepted by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.  Wiley's a great musician, great guitar player; Brenda Hanson is going to play. A new singer songwriter we've never had before. Marianne Grittani will be here. Many of the people on Cortes know Jesse Roy; Heather Wolfe and her band.

Sustainability is extremely important to me, and last year I decided to take my business in the direction of becoming a certified B Corp business. This means being held to higher standards of social and environmental performance, along with other stringent factors. To help me achieve this, I had Amy Robertson-Thrift join my team. Amy is an amazing bookkeeper, as well as being super passionate about sustainability. Today I chat with Amy, who shares 5 tips for small businesses to move forward on the sustainability front. While it's a big space and can feel overwhelming to tackle, you don't need to be an expert. It's the simple steps we can take that will change how we do things and potentially influence big businesses to do the same. We dive into ideas around:Starting where you areFinding a team or sustainability representative to support your endeavoursChanging your bank and employer super fund to an ethical providerLooking at your physical operations to find where you can reduce wasteThinking locally and building communitySetting a couple of goals or creating an achievable baseline can be such an effective way to take steps towards sustainability in your business. Amy shares some amazing insight into the mindset you can adopt, whether you're just looking to make some small, positive changes or you're working towards certification. I hope this episode really gets you thinking and inspires you to move your sustainability measures forward in your own world.LINKS:B Impact AssessmentRegister your interest in the Bookkeeping it Real Mentoring Program here.Check out my course Bookkeeping it Real here!Where to Find Bec:Website:https://straightupbookkeeping.com.au/ Instagram: @straightup_bookkeepingFacebook: @straightupbookkeepingLinkedIn: @straight-up-bookkeeping

Drama heightens in the exaggerated, fantastical tragi-comedy that is Esther. After a moment of reluctance, Esther rises to the occasion to successfully execute a plan to protect her people (and literally execute - on a 75-foot-high stake - the enemy of her people…). Speaking the language of the powerful, following every royal protocol, and understanding how both laws and egos work, Esther drives the plot of this raucous, fictional narrative. A minority gender of a minority people in the grips of an oppressive empire becomes the unlikely hero when she expertly wields the power of her positionality in relation to the king.Sermon begins at minute marker 10:22Esther 3:1-11 and 7:1-10Photo: SMC photoboothHymn: VT 580 To Leave the Stones Unthrown, Words - ©2005 Hope Publishing Company, Contributors: Carl P. Daw, Jr.Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.ResourcesBibleWorm podcast, Episode 152: Resisting Ethnic Nationalism, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr., August 3, 2020.The Forgotten Books of the Bible: Recovering the Five Scrolls for Today, Robert Williamson, Jr., 2018https://www.commonsensemedia.org/kids-action/articles/why-representation-matters-in-kids-mediahttps://bmgator.org/31218/uncategorized/representation-matters-a-review-of-heartstopper/https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/may/31/young-gay-people-being-out-and-happy-its-revolutionary-meet-the-heartstopper-generation 

Before there was Rosa Parks, there was Ida B. Wells. Before there was Esther, there was Vashti. And after all of them was Brenda Salter McNeil. Those who say “No!” stand on the shoulders of many others who also had the courage to resist before them, making the powers tremble. We too have the opportunity to say “No” to oppression and exploitation. Do not fear being reduced to a naysayer, for our “No” ultimately allows for a “Yes”; a YES to the liberating, loving, and just Way of Jesus.Sermon begins at minute 8:25.Esther 1.1-22ResourcesBibleWorm podcast, Episode 152: Resisting Ethnic Nationalism, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr., August 3, 2020.The Forgotten Books of the Bible: Recovering the Five Scrolls for Today, Robert Williamson, Jr., 2018Rabbi Zalman Schacter-Shalomi at Purim, reading Esther - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-p05qJWlTk. This is NOT the exact Purim celebration that Pastor Megan describes having had the pleasure of participating in, but Rev Zalman IS the same Rabbi! This video offers an example of what the Esther story in one contemporary Reconstructionist Jewish community's celebration of Purim sounds, looks, and feels like.Brenda Salter McNeil, Becoming Brave: Finding the Courage to Pursue Racial Justice Now, (Brazos Press, 2020), 23, 31, etc.Read more about Rosa Parks: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/rosa-parksRead more about Ida B. Wells: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ida_B._Wells VT 434 O God, Our Refuge Text: Brenda Hostetler Meyer, Music: The Walking Roots Band (2019). Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.Image: Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

No bones about it: Song of Songs is steamy. Before this sermon is through, we will acknowledge that people do, in fact, have sex. We will hear about desire and the clandestine rendezvous of lovers. We will learn that Pastor Megan has become an avid reader of romance novels, and bear witness as she practices more unapologetically owning that. We will celebrate bodies and the joy of human sexuality. We will dwell in the Sublime Song of young lovers who love themselves and one another with sensuous abandon. And we will call it all “holy”. Thanks be to God for the Song of all Songs!Sermon begins at minute 6:16 (but you really should listen to the reading)Song of Songs 1:12-2:6 and 7:1-13ResourcesBibleWorm podcast, Episode 147:The Joy of Sex, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr., June 29, 2020.The Forgotten Books of the Bible: Recovering the Five Scrolls for Today, Robert Williamson, Jr., 2018Forgotten Books Bible Study video: Song of Songs Part I, with Robert Williamson, Jr.Book Review by Hannah Notess of Rafe: A Buff Male Nanny (Loose Ends 1), posted on GoodReads, February 15, 2019 [retrieved October 8, 2022].“His Banner Over Me” - song by Kevin ProschI Sought the Lord #VT161 Music - ©1969 MennoMedia Inc.; Contributors: J Harold MoyerPermission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.Image: detail of a medal from a series of Song of Songs medals made by Klaus Kowalski, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

When at last the communal voice enters the lamentation, closing out the book of Lamentations, the community finds a way to speak in a singular voice with enough spaciousness to embrace its diversities. It's almost magical how they pull it off. Have we, could we, might we do the same with our various experiences in this lingering, never-ending pandemic?Sermon begins at minute 7:58Lamentations 3.1-3, 17-33 and 5.1-3, 19-22Image: Photo by Chang Duong on UnsplashHymn: Voices Together 712 God of the Poor (Beauty for Brokenness). Words and Music - ©1993 Make Way Music, Contributors: Graham KendrickPermission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.ResourcesBibleWorm podcast, Episode 146: Trauma Has Many Voices, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr., June 22, 2020.The Forgotten Books of the Bible: Recovering the Five Scrolls for Today, Robert Williamson, Jr., 2018“Great is thy faithfulness” - words by Thomas Chisolm

We encounter the timeless poetry of Ecclesiastes about the seasons of our lives. Pete Seeger iconically set this poetry to music so poignant and beautiful that it is known to nearly all of us. Like all good poetry, there is spaciousness to enter it from our many and varied places in life. Some of us may find in these ancient words a seed of despair, some of us a melancholic sort of hope, and still others enormous freedom. There is a time to hear from one another, and today seemed to be that time…Sermon begins at minute 5:26Ecclesiastes 1:4-11; 3:1-11Image: Photo by Chris Lawton on UnsplashAsk the Complicated Questions, VT 440 words - ©2018 GIA Publications, Inc., Contributors: David Bjorlin Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: For Everything There is a Season, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr., June 8, 2020.The Forgotten Books of the Bible: Recovering the Five Scrolls for Today, Robert Williamson, Jr., 2018“Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season”: a song by Pete Seeger, most popularly recorded by The Byrds.“Mysteries, Yes”, Evidence: Poems by Mary Oliver (2010)

If all of life is “vanity” or breath or vapor, as the Teacher of Ecclesiastes repeats, is it then “perfectly pointless”? If life is unfair, inscrutable, beyond our control, and destined for the grave, as the Teacher describes, is it then meaningless? Perhaps. Or Perhaps it's simply precious, for the moments given to us as our portion. Whatever the case, do know that “a living dog is better than a dead lion”! Ahhh… What fun to adventure in this book that's been mostly ignored within Christian communities, and to find ourselves surprised, tickled, and maybe even encouraged.Sermon begins at minute marker 2:56Ecclesiastes 1:1-3 and 8:16-9:10Photo credit: Maximalfocus on UnsplashResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Making Meaning In a Zero-Sum World, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr., May 30, 2021.The Forgotten Books of the Bible: Recovering the Five Scrolls for Today, Robert Williamson, Jr., 2018.Ephemeral Art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeral_art Nihilism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihilism_(disambiguation) 

In 2020 Seattle dollars, Mary pours out $100,000 worth of perfume on Jesus' feet. Why? And when Judas questions her choice, citing how much further those dollars could have gone if given to the poor, doesn't he have a point? Yep. But come along for this sermonic ride, exploring the honoring of bodies, and averted public shaming, and loving God with one's all, and the many flavors of scarcity mindset, and Tanya Tucker's gorgeously defiant “If your heart is in them flowers, bring ‘em on…”Sermon begins at minute 3:54John 12:1-8Hymn: Voices Together 30  Jesus Calls Us.  Words and Music - ©1989 Iona Community / WGRG (North America) Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved. Resources:“Bring My Flowers Now” by Tanya Tucker, with Brandi Carlile, 2019. [watch music video]BibleWorm podcast: Episode 351 – The Poor Will Always Be with You, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.For those interested in exploring Elizabeth Schrader's research on Mary the Tower: 1. Schrader's scholarly article “Was Martha of Bethany Added to the Fourth Gospel in the Second Century?” (2016) and/or 2. Diana Butler Bass's sermon text and audio “All the Marys” (2022)“Seattle's median household income soars past $100,000 — but wealth doesn't reach all,” by Gene Balk, Seattle Times, September 25, 2020. [NOTE: this median income figure is newer, though still a few years old, and higher than the number quoted in the sermon.]Deuteronomy 15, NRSVAll the World by Liz Garton Scanlon

Some of the most beloved words of Scripture - “Do justice, love kindness, walk humbly with your God” - are surrounded by some decidedly less beautiful words, to put it mildly. We know the gift of the beautiful and familiar nugget contained in Micah 6.8, but is there also gift in the tough stuff that comes before and after? Pastor Megan notices in the surrounding chapters a PROBLEM: the mundanity of everyday wickedness. An ANTIDOTE: sabbath interruption of the steady progression and accumulation of mundane wickedness. And a FRUIT, borne of the antidote: kinship, mutual aid, and an actively anti-predatory neighborly economy. Why the kohlrabi? You'll just have to listen to find out…Scripture: Micah 6.6-15, 7.1-7Hymn:  VT 207 What Does the Lord Require of You?  Words based on Micah 6:8, Jim Strathdee; music Jim Strathdee Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.Resources“Faith seeking economic justice” by Walter Brueggemann, a eulogy for Biblical scholar Norman Gottwald [1926-2022], The Christian Century, June 1, 2022 (p. 14-15).BibleWorm podcast: Episode 348 – What Does the Lord Require of You?, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.Image: “Green Kohlrabi” by Jonathunder, GFDL 1.2 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/fdl-1.2.html, via Wikimedia CommonsVoices Together [link to purchase through Menno Media]--“The covenantal vision of a neighborly economy, so clearly and often voiced in the Torah, requires advocacy for both polity and practice that are pro-neighbor, anti-predation, and anti-accumulation… As our society grows more frightened and more repressive, the church is faced with an urgent call for truth telling—concerning both the exposure of our predatory economic system, which produces and sustains poverty through cheap labor, and the articulation of an alternative way that will yield neighborly abundance. But as long as the church is in unthinking collusion with dominant economic assumptions, this hard and transformative truth is unlikely to be spoken aloud.” —Walter Brueggemann

We wrap up another Narrative Lectionary year with the lovely close of Paul's letter to the community at Philippi. These words of encouragement, consolation, and assurance are bedside words: one can just as easily imagine reading them to a beloved child at bedtime, or a beloved elder at the time of death. They are a benediction of sorts, functioning as a semicolon - a pronounced pause - between the two main clauses of waking and sleeping, or living and dying, or worship and work. Listen to Pastor Megan's comma of a sermon, extolling the semicolons of our shared life.Sermon begins at minute 3:27.Philippians 4:4-7Image: semicolonBibleWorm podcast: Episode 345 – Pentecost, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.Semicolon | sem·i·co·lon | noun | a punctuation mark (;) indicating a pause, typically between two main clauses, that is more pronounced than that indicated by a comma. [definition from Oxford Languages]Voices Together [link to purchase through Menno Media] 797 Text: based on Menno Simons, Reply to False Accusations, 1552; stanzas 1, 3, 4 vers. David Augsburger, 1978; adapt. Esther Bergen, 1990; stanza 2 by Mennonite Worship and Song Committee, 2017 © Mennonite World ConferencePermission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

 What if taking a break is okay? What if being Beloved is enough?Sermon begins at minute 4:09Acts 17:16-34 BibleWorm podcast: Episode 342 – Paul in Athens, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.“Nonprofit AF taking a break this week; here's a picture of a kitten,” Vu Le, May 8, 2022.“The Love of God” VT 162. Public Domain. Text: F. M. Lehman (USA), c. 1917, stanza 3 based on Rabbi Meir (Germany), “Haddamut,” c. 1050, and Qur'an 31:27 (present-day Saudi Arabia), alt. Music: F. M. Lehman, c. 1917; arr. Claudia Lehman Mays (USA), alt.“The God Who Only Knows Four Words,” Hafiz, from The Gift, trans. Daniel Ladinsky IMAGE: Rogue, photo by Megan Ramer

We zoom in on the powerful image of Paul and Silas, political prisoners, behind bars, surrounded by other prisoners listening to them, as they SING HYMNS to God. They are singing before the miracle. They are singing as strategy, as prayer, and as soul-nourishment individually and collectively. We hear stories from some Mennonite sisters in the contemporary Jesus Uprising, as we ponder our own singing before the miracle, joining the Spirit's groaning with sighs too deep for words.Sermon begins at minute 7:23Acts 16:16-34Image: Jailed civil rights protesters, Tuscaloosa AL, 1964.Hymns: Come Now, O God: Words - ©2018 GIA Publications, Inc., Contributors: David BjorlinMy Life Flows On: Music - ©1989 MennoMedia Inc., Contributors: Brethren PressPermission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.ResourcesMother God, by Teresa Kim Pecinovsky, ill by Khoa Le; read just before the recording“Expanding our identity in worship,” Sarah Augustine, Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology, Spring 2022: “Music and the arts”“Music and inclusion in Mennonite worship and peace-justice work,” an interview with Sarah Nahar, Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology, Spring 2022: “Music and the arts”BibleWorm podcast: Episode 341 – Of Jailers and Slave Girls, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.“Black and Indigenous Solidarity in the Haudenosaunee Confederacy: Stopping the Narrative Violence of Columbus in Downtown Syracuse, New York,” Sarah Nahar, Stories of Repair: A Reparative Justice Resource toward Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery (2021).Porter's Gate, whose music from their album Justice Songs we used  in our time of response.“Ramadan Nights Provide Cherished Pause in a Sudan on the Brink,” by Declan Walsh, The New York Times, April 28, 2022.

Yes, it's exceedingly unfair that Thomas gets such a bad rap. But that's a sermon that's been preached a thousand times, including several times by Pastor Megan. Instead, this week she dives deep into what she'd always previously glossed right over. Jesus says to the gathered, frightened, newly Spirit-filled disciples: “As my Abba God sent me, so I am sending you.” With a huge nod to the BibleWorm podcast Scripture geniuses, Pastor Megan wonders what it means to be sent just as Jesus was sent by Abba God. In short: We are sent to be incarnated - to experience kinship and share life with all of creation. Thanks be to God!Sermon begins at minute 1:45John 20.19-31ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 339 – Jesus Appears to Thomas, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.Image: some Seattle Mennonites experiencing kinship with Thornton Creek (our watershed!), during Faith Climate Action Week 2022, photo taken by Pastor Megan RamerHymn: VT 358text: Victimae Pashali trans. FW Herzberger, 1911 music: German traditional

Who is Jesus? Throughout John's gospel, Jesus makes a series of key “I AM…” claims to various groups of people. I AM… the good shepherd, true vine, gate, living water, light of the world, way-truth-life, bread of life, the resurrection and the life. Additionally, John's gospel begins - in gorgeous poetry - by naming Jesus as Word. Incarnate and embodied Word. Word made flesh, who tented among us. True and living Word. The Empire's ultimate power over the people is death, and Jesus threatens that tenuous power-over by wielding life. As a result, Jesus is subject to an excruciating trial and torture, which at last gives way to his brutal execution. Pilate tacks a sign on the cross naming Jesus “King of the Jews”. But Pilate doesn't get the final word on who Jesus is. Jesus-followers for centuries have named and claimed him as: teacher, friend, savior, brother, prince of peace, mother hen, way, and so very much more. Who is Jesus to you?Sermon begins at minute 7:51.John 19:16b-22Image: word cloud generated by Seattle Mennonite Church worshippers, using Poll Everywhere April 10, 2022.Hymn: VT 329 Were You There Text: African American spiritual, Journal of American Folklore, 1897. Music: African American spiritual, Old Plantation Hymns, 1899Resources:Bibleworm podcast: Episode 336 – The Executed King, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.The Bibleworm Collaborative, Discord channel, April 2022. Glenn Boyd, executed by the State of Alabama, March 31, 2011, for the murder of Evelyn & Fred Blackmon.

We are in our third week in a row of Jesus' trial, and the story is getting increasingly painful to endure. If we stick with it enough to actually take it in, to allow ourselves to feel all we feel, we might notice that - while horrific - it's not actually all that exceptional. Jesus is getting slowly and brutally churned up by the carceral system of his day, in the same way that beloved humans are slowly and brutally churned up by the carceral system of ours. Pastor Megan explores some of those contemporary echoes in the story, lamenting our complicity and the harm experienced by each one. We visualize a “circle of grace” within which each beloved - even in the midst of violence and violation - might experience the presence of God, who knows exactly what it's like to be humiliated, violated, chewed up, and spat out. God, have mercy.Sermon begins at minute 2:58.John 19:1-16aImage: detail from Our Lady of Ferguson, by Mark DooxResourcesCircle of Grace curriculum, Dove's Nest, https://dovesnest.net/circleofgrace “Since I Been Down,” documentary about Kimonti Carter, former president and current member of the Black Prisoners' Caucus, and founder of TEACH (Taking Education and Creating History), an innovative prisoner education program.Bibleworm podcast: Episode 335 – The Trial Before Pilate, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.CORRECTION: The photos mentioned from Guantanamo Bay were actually photos of prisoner abuse by U.S. soldiers at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison in 2004. Black Mamas Bail Out Action with SONG (Southerners on New Ground)“Sandra Bland did not kill herself,” Crystal A. deGregory, The Atlanta Voice, May 9, 2019. Harold Moss, first Black mayor of Tacoma, 1929-2020, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Moss 

The scene in Jerusalem during this time of Passover is fraught, and occupying imperial power is tenuous. Crowds travel all across the Judean landscape to convene in Jerusalem for an annual pilgrimage in which they retell a story of their ancestors finding liberation from oppressors. The contemporary oppressive overlords tremble at the prospect that the power of the people may rise up against them. It's in this context that Jesus is tried by Pilate. The wheels of imperial self-interested violence cycles churn away - keeping everyone afraid of everything all the time. According to John's gospel, Jesus has come as a True Word that stands in opposition to the siren voice of the bandit leading his violent and scattered revolt. Nothing could be more threatening to the occupying imperial powers than an embodied TRUE word of belonging and nonviolent resistance.Sermon begins at minute 3:14John 18:28-40Pilate Judgment, detail from a 15th century icon (public domain)Hymn: Ah, Holy Jesus, VT 330 Words and Music - ©PD Public Domain Music: Johann Crüger; Text: Johann HeermannBibleworm podcast: Episode 334 – What Is Truth, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.Willard M Swartley, JOHN: Believers Church Bible Commentary, Herald Press (2013).Women's Bible Commentary, eds. Carol A Newsom and Sharon H Ringe, Westminster John Knox Press (1992).The Queer Bible Commentary, eds. Deryn Guest, Robert E Goss, Mona West, Thomas Bohache, SCM Press (2006).Francis J Moloney, S.D.B., The Gospel of John, Sacra Pagina Series Vol. 4, The Liturgical Press (1998).

To be frank: John is a bit extra. John's gospel will take anything that Jesus says or does in Matthew, Mark, or Luke, and turn the dial all the way up to “whaaaat?!” Following the feeding of way-more-than-5000 with 5 barley loaves and 2 dried fish, Jesus begins his discourse with “I AM the bread of life.” Which sounds positively quaint by the time he gets to the rather graphic proclamation that only those who munch on his flesh have life in them; that those who munch on his flesh will have eternal life. What can it possibly have meant then or now to munch on Jesus' flesh? Sermon begins at minute 7:25Scripture: John 6.35-59 Image: memeHymn: VT 480 I Am the Bread of Life  Contributors: Sr. Suzanne Toolan Tune: © 1966, 1970, 1986, 1993, 2005, GIA Publications, Inc. Text: © 1966, 1970, 1986, 1993, 2005, GIA Publications, Inc.Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.Resources:Bibleworm podcast: Episode 327 – The Bread of Life, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.Willard M Swartley, JOHN: Believers Church Bible Commentary, Herald Press (2013).Women's Bible Commentary, eds. Carol A Newsom and Sharon H Ringe, Westminster John Knox Press (1992).The Queer Bible Commentary, eds. Deryn Guest, Robert E Goss, Mona West, Thomas Bohache, SCM Press (2006).Francis J Moloney, S.D.B., The Gospel of John, Sacra Pagina Series Vol. 4, The Liturgical Press (1998

Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - The Cortes Community Economic Development Association (CCEDA) released their site design concept for the ‘Village Commons,' in Mansons Landing, last week. This is the fruition of a public consultation process which actually began in 2004, more than a decade before CCEDA purchased the property. In today's interview, project leader Kate Madigan talks about the six months of community meetings and input that led to the current design. The first step was finding a consultant from outside the community to facilitate the process. Madigan said that Dave Snider and Patricia Huntsman from the Pathways Landscape Group did an excellent job from start to finish. They gave CCEDA a variety of ways to consult with the community: sounding boards, where people could post thier ideas, were put up at the post office and Cortes Market in Mansons Landing, the Squirrel Cove General Store and ferry terminal waiting room in Whaletown. An online bulletin board was set up for community members to post their ideas. Around 20 people logged in to a virtual community cafe that Patricia and Dave facilitated. Around 15 people showed up for a face to face meeting in Mansosn Hall last fall. “It felt like we got a real diversity of perspectives,” explained Madigan. “We did have someone who really wanted there to be lots of space for small business people and we had people who did want to be able to drive into the site. There was some question as to whether we wanted there to be a road going through there and we had people saying you don't have to develop this all at once. Which is true, we don't have to do it all at once. We can just do a staged development we can keep it fairly undeveloped too. There's lots of people that feel it should remain park-like. There was just so many ideas and we were just very satisfied with it.” The top three ideas appeared to be: keep it small, keep it rural a laundromat an outdoor event venue. There is a central covered area with stage capacities and an area for fires. “So, we have the outdoor venue figured out and then some what's called flex spaces that could be used for anything. They're just buildings that could be office space,” said Madigan. A laundromat might be more problematic. Space is limited (2.6 acres) and the only road goes one way, which might be problematic if a lot of people are using it to drive up to the laundromat. I mean, you have a load and people want to drive up to it. “I don't know that this space would be conducive to a laundromat. There might be other spaces in Manson's that are more appropriate for that.” she said. The Village Commons is fairly park-like right now. Madigan said the clearing is a nice place to enjoy the sun on winter days. There is a shallow well and CCEDA plans to convert its old wheeled kiosk into office space. “We like this plan today, but in two years, something could change and we could say, you know what? It makes so much more sense to have this other thing. And how can we incorporate that into the plan?” she said. Madigan expects the plan to unfold slowly, as funding and the availability of volunteers permit. She added, “I really feel strongly that people seem to be pleased. I'm not hearing any negative feedback about this. I think the process was well received by the community and it really is due to the efforts of volunteers. CCEDA's land working group is made up of Amy Robertson, Colin Funk, and Beatrix Baxter. They really did want to get this right according to the community's wishes and they continue to want to see that.”

Okay, they don't precisely “walk into a bar”, but they do meet at their local “watering hole”... the well… literally a hole with water in it. Ha! Do I have your attention yet?! Two people like them are NOT supposed to interact at all, but these two beloved humans conspire to cross religio-socio-cultural boundaries to encounter one another: human to human. Neither do they shy away from the most pressing theological dispute that fuels the sometimes violent antagonism between their respective peoples. The Samaritan woman (anonymous) dives right into the thorns with the Jewish man (Jesus), and by the end of it all she goes to her people with 1) an invitation: “Come and see…”, and 2) an open question “Could this man be…?” Stick around through all the noticings in this gorgeous story, and be treated to a “biblical experiment in decolonization,” thanks to the compassionate heart and imaginative mind of one baptized with the waters of Shoal Lake 40 in Treaty 1 territory, Canada.Sermon begins at minute 7:41John 4:1-42Image: JESUS MAFA. Jesus and the Samaritan Woman, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=48282 [retrieved January 31, 2022]. Original source: http://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr (contact page: https://www.librairie-emmanuel.fr/contact). Note on JESUS MAFA (Vie de Jesus Mafa): French Catholic missionary François Vidil worked with Mafa Christian communities in Northern Cameroon in the 1970s to create a set of 63 paintings depicting the life of Jesus as if they'd taken place in a Cameroonian village.Hymn: VT 536, I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say. Contributors: Ralph Vaughan Williams, ICEL  Tune: Music: traditional English melody, arr. By Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 © Oxford University Press, London. Text: Text: Horatius Bonar, 1806-1889.  Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reservedBibleworm podcast: Episode 324 – The Woman at the Well, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.JOHN: Believers Church Bible Commentary, by Willard M Swartley, Herald Press (2013).Women's Bible Commentary, eds. Carol A Newsom and Sharon H Ringe, Westminster John Knox Press (1992).“Stolen Waters, Thirsty People,” Susanne Guenther Loewen, from Unsettling the Word: Biblical Experiments in Decolonization, ed. Steve Heinrichs, Mennonite Church Canada (2018), 220-221.

We are now a few weeks into the mystical, strange, poetic, beautiful, mysterious, harrowing, polemical, and prophetic Gospel of John. Since we'll be slowly walking through John's gospel for the next several months, it seems important to address John's mixed legacy in Christian history, as well as the fraught context within which John's gospel was written. Trust me: it's more interesting than it sounds! May we join John's central project of pointing toward the Only Begotten, the Word made Body who tents with humanity, the Lamb of God anointed to take away the sins of the world, the One in whom Grace and Truth kiss.Sermon starts at minute 5:45John 2:1-12Image: detail of St. John the Evangelist, manuscript illumination from the Lindisfarne Gospels, late 7th centuryHymns: God, be the Love, VT43, Words and Music - ©2013 Worldmaking.net Contributor: Richard Bruxvoort ColliganWhere Love is Found, VT 524, Text: Brian Wren, 1978 Faith Looking Forward, 1983 Hope Publishing Co. Tune: English traditional, ca. 19th c., transcr. as “O Waly, Waly” in Folk Songs from Somerset, 1906 Harm. by James E. Clemens, © 2004 James E. ClemensPermission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.Additional resources:Podcasts: Several episodes of the Bibleworm podcast, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.

Our final text in the Hebrew Bible, before arriving at the Gospel of John next week, is the beautiful poetry of Isaiah. We hear of God's shalom vision: a great feast where thirst is sated and hunger no more; where none has need and we are shown that we've always had enough - plenty - abundance for all. As we seek God's ways and reject all that blocks God's feast, we become conduits of God's Life to grow in and through and among us. And then, like the emotional finish line of a long race, creation itself cheers us on, bursting into song and bearing witness to the Abundant Life we together nurture. Thanks be to God!Sermon begins at minute 3:21Isaiah 55:1-13photo: by Natalia Mok on Unsplash Bibleworm podcast: Episode 316 – Come to the Waters, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.

Elijah is having a “No Bones Day” (check out the links re: Noodle the 13-year-old pug to understand this reference!), and his people are having a whole “No Bones” season. Surrounded by the bleak and very dead pile of dried out bones, Elijah has no reason to feel optimism when God asks, “Mortal, can these bones live?” and they so obviously cannot. But Elijah doesn't need to feel optimism; that's not what God asks of him, or of us. Instead, God invites Elijah - and each one of us, in our own places of bleak and lifeless despair - to practice hope.note: Pastor Megan does refer to Ezekiel as Elijah throughout. Feel free to mentally adjust that name as you listen. Sermon begins at minute 4:20Scripture: Ezekiel 37:1-14Image: Noodle and Jonathan Graziano, of “No Bones” fameBibleworm podcast: Episode 315 – The Valley of Dry Bones, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.“No Bones” video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwE9cyXM_v4 About Noodle, his human Jonathan Graziano, and their “No Bones” game: https://www.npr.org/2021/10/19/1047302978/noodles-pug-bones-no-bones-day-tiktok-mood-prediction

Advent is all about the messy middle. Smack dab in the middle of exile, destruction, and the crumbling of a people's sense of identity, Jeremiah pens a letter encouraging his kindred to live now, thrive now. Build homes, grow food, and create families, he writes. Don't wait until you've emerged out the other side of this unmooring experience, he seems to say, but claim life now. In your longing and waiting, in your sorrowing and struggle, seek the welfare of the strange new land and unfamiliar people around you, for in their welfare you'll find your own. In the messy middle of our own collective experience (of lingering pandemic and so much more), perhaps we too can be encouraged to claim life now as we redefine home and food and family, seeking the liberation and wellbeing of all.Sermon begins at minute 2:57Jeremiah 29:1, 4-14Bibleworm podcast: Episode 314 – Seek the Peace of the City, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash 

What does it take to be a cyber threat intelligence analyst? How can cyber threat intelligence or CTI training be applied in real-world strategic defense planning and risk management assessment? Cybrary Course Manager Jennifer Barnabee returns to the Cybrary Podcast with two guests from MITRE to discuss the value of CTI teams and their research. Jackie Lasky, Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, and Amy Robertson, Cyber Operations Lead, break down the ways that cyber threat intelligence is used to produce actionable defensive recommendations to any organization. Learn more about why it's more important than ever for CTI teams to have diverse contributors with both technical and non-technical skillsets. Don't forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube! Check out Cybrary Now!!! ~Cybrary Follow Cybrary on Social!! ~Twitter ~Instagram ~FaceBook ~YouTube ~LinkedIn

 The prophets bring us beautiful poetry and powerful challenge. Amos is clear that justice must be established at the city gate, at the entry point, at the first. Everything else flows from that. Without justice at the start, God **can't even** with our worship…! Without justice, our songs and praises are empty at best, nails on a chalkboard at worst. Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.Sermon begins at minute 1:40 Amos 1.1-2; 5.14-15, 21-24 Photo by Ivan Aleksic on Unsplash For the Healing of the Nations - Fred Kaan, Words - ©1968 Hope Publishing Company [Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.]Bibleworm podcast: Episode 311 – Let Justice Roll Down, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.

You are beloved and God's Spirit is with you. Y'all are beloved and God's Spirit is with y'all. We are beloved and God's Spirit is with us. Sometimes the sermon is a mantra. With a couple of plump, plucked cherries atop.Sermon begins at minute 4:20.Scripture: 1 Samuel 16.1-13; Psalm 51.10-14Image: Photo by Mae Mu on Unsplash.“Beloved is Where We Begin,” Jan Richardson, from Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons (2015), 96.Bibleworm podcast: Episode 308 - The Anointing of David, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.

Though we think of manna as the bread that God rained down on the wandering Israelite community in the wilderness, “manna” was first a question. “What is it?!” The Israelites draw near enough to the strange flaky substance on the ground to ask “Manna?” and in so doing encounter the answer “Manna!” How might this story, along with the crowd asking Jesus for a daily dose of “bread of life”, inform our curiosity about seeking spiritual sustenance for our own lives?Sermon begins at minute 04:06Scripture: Exodus 16.1-18Image: “Manna,” folio 6, from the Augsburger Book of Miracles (f°6), ca 1552 Hymn: Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah; Words and Music - Public Domain; Text: William Williams; Music: John Hughes. [Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.]Additional Resources:Bibleworm podcast: Episode 306 - Manna in the Wilderness, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.“Ich bin, du Ängstlicher,” Rainer Maria Rilke, Book of Hours: Love Poems to God - I,19; trans Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy (1996), 66.

Names can shape identity or character in powerful ways. When Moses asks God's name, God responds with a verb: “I am becoming who I am becoming.” What does it mean, then and now, to be in relationship with a God who claims a name that is an action, a movement, a verb, a becoming…? Even as we weary of the constant adaptation required of us, especially now, may we experience some comfort knowing that our God is on the move with us.Sermon begins at minute 3:25Exodus 2:23-25; 3:1-15; 4:10-17Image: Moses before the burning bush. From the Haggadah for Passover (the 'Sister Haggadah'), unknown artist, 14th century. Music: Taste and See - Tune: James E. Moore, Jr., © 1983, GIA Publications, Inc. Text: Psalm 34; James E. Moore Jr., © 1983, GIA Publications, Inc., Words and Music - ©1983 GIA Publications, Inc.Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.Additional resources: Bibleworm podcast: Episode 305 - The Call of Moses, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.

All of my first-born, rule-following instincts are troubled by this story of a younger son employing devious and conniving tactics to “steal” the blessing of his elder brother. But how was this story liberative to the people who remembered, told, recorded, and passed it down? Looking at the story again, with that question at the fore, reveals the subversion of power structures, within a trickster motif, and the ultimate blessing of ALL.Sermon begins at minute 4:10Scripture: Genesis 27:1-4, 15-23; 28:10-17 Image: Isaac blessing Jacob, Esau returning from his hunt. From the Haggadah for Passover (the 'Sister Haggadah'), from the 14th century. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Isaac,_Jacob_and_Esau.jpg] Hymns:Voices Together 440 - Ask the complicated questions, Joan NorrisMusic - ©1989 MennoMedia Inc. [Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.]Bibleworm podcast: Episode 303 - The Blessing of Jacob, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.

We are honoured to have, Amy Robertson, MSc. OT, on the Finding My Psych Podcast today. Amy and I discuss her most recent decision to move back to the East Coast to be closer to family. We spend time talking about the power of hitting the reset button in life and excitement/anxiety that come along with taking strategic leaps.

Episode 34 of The Battlefield Show...Live from The Death Bunker...wash your hands after listening to this show!The 14th Episode since the LOCKDOWN, another week of the pandemic but at least the Football is back. Racist banners, Belfast Christian bakery, shopping centres closing and the good old fashioned High Street all get a mention. Plus we go back to the Metro for some hard hitting News stories. Stay safe Team, speak soon.Remember to SUBSCRIBE & SHARE ya Rascals. Lets build the Battlefield Army during these End of Days.SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: twitter.com/BigScottGibsonInstagram: www.instagram.com/bigscottgibson/Facebook: www.facebook.com/scottgibsoncomedySUPPORT THE SHOWPatreon: www.patreon.com/bigscottgibsonKo-fi: ko-fi.com/bigscottgibsonMAILING LISTwww.scottgibsoncomedy.co.uk/signupAVAILABLE ONSpotify / Apple Podcasts / Acast / Stitcher / iHeartRadio + othersSee you on the Battlefield soon Team...Onwards!!!THE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - 4 STAR GENERALSANDREW WARD, DOUGLAS ANDERSON, STEVEN ARMSTRONG, BARRY WARD, MICK WHITWORTH, JEANIE RUSSELL, LAURA DERRICK, MALCOLM McKECHNIE, STEPHEN BARTON, ALASDAIR BLAIR, MARK DUNSMORE, AMY ROBERTSON, KYLE STEWART, STEVEN McLAUGHLIN, GLEN MacPHERSON, MARTYN WALLACE, KRIS ARMSTRONG, DONALD MORAN, ANDY HENDERSON, JACK MacDONALD, GARY McCOLL, DEREK BOWERS, BETH McCAFFERTY, CAMMIE KING, CRAIG McKIE, NICOLA ALLARDICE, ROBERT GILLON, THOMAS MARR, JOHN STRUTHERS, JANE GAULD.THE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - LIEUTENANT COLONEL'SSIMON MEEK, ROBERT BAIRD, STEPHEN WILSON, LEWIS CAVANAGH, LOUISE THOMSON, ANDREW, GAVIN HOLMS, JACK KING, TAMMY CLANCY, LEANNA CASSIDY, BOBBY CURRIE, JASON CHAU, PAUL JAMESON, CHRIS, RYAN McGOWAN, FRASER TORRANCE, STUART M, STUART HAMILTON. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thescottgibsonshow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 33 of The Battlefield Show...Live from The Death Bunker...wash your hands after listening to this show!The 13th Episode since the LOCKDOWN, unlucky for some...maybe that's why the camera cut out...and another week stuck at home. This time round we discuss De-Funding the police, the $1M Covid hospital bill, a little chat about the Stone Island Dads and we go back to the Metro for some hard hitting News stories. Stay safe Team, speak soon.Remember to SUBSCRIBE & SHARE ya Rascals. Lets build the Battlefield Army during these End of Days.SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: twitter.com/BigScottGibsonInstagram: www.instagram.com/bigscottgibson/Facebook: www.facebook.com/scottgibsoncomedySUPPORT THE SHOWPatreon: www.patreon.com/bigscottgibsonKo-fi: ko-fi.com/bigscottgibsonMAILING LISTwww.scottgibsoncomedy.co.uk/signupAVAILABLE ONSpotify / Apple Podcasts / Acast / Stitcher / iHeartRadio + othersSee you on the Battlefield soon Team...Onwards!!!THE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - 4 STAR GENERALSANDREW WARD, DOUGLAS ANDERSON, STEVEN ARMSTRONG, BARRY WARD, MICK WHITWORTH, JEANIE RUSSELL, LAURA DERRICK, MALCOLM McKECHNIE, STEPHEN BARTON, ALASDAIR BLAIR, MARK DUNSMORE, AMY ROBERTSON, KYLE STEWART, STEVEN McLAUGHLIN, GLEN MacPHERSON, MARTYN WALLACE, KRIS ARMSTRONG, DONALD MORAN, ANDY HENDERSON, JACK MacDONALD, GARY McCOLL, DEREK BOWERS, BETH McCAFFERTY, CAMMIE KING, CRAIG McKIE, NICOLA ALLARDICE, ROBERT GILLON, THOMAS MARR, JOHN STRUTHERS, JANE GAULD.THE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - LIEUTENANT COLONEL'SSIMON MEEK, ROBERT BAIRD, STEPHEN WILSON, LEWIS CAVANAGH, LOUISE THOMSON, ANDREW, GORDON HUNTER, GAVIN HOLMS, JACK KING, TAMMY CLANCY, LEANNA CASSIDY, MARK HUGHES, BOBBY CURRIE, JASON CHAU, PAUL JAMESON, CHRIS, RYAN McGOWAN, FRASER TORRANCE. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thescottgibsonshow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 32 of The Battlefield Show...Live from The Death Bunker...wash your hands after listening to this show!The 12th Episode since the LOCKDOWN and another week stuck at home. This time round the BLM movement dominates conversation, with a mention to some Glasgow Street names. I chat about a wonderful documentary called 'Funke'...and of course some listener questions. Stay safe Team, speak soon.Remember to SUBSCRIBE & SHARE ya Rascals. Lets build the Battlefield Army during these End of Days.SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: twitter.com/BigScottGibsonInstagram: www.instagram.com/bigscottgibson/Facebook: www.facebook.com/scottgibsoncomedySUPPORT THE SHOWPatreon: www.patreon.com/bigscottgibsonKo-fi: ko-fi.com/bigscottgibsonMAILING LISTwww.scottgibsoncomedy.co.uk/signupAVAILABLE ONSpotify / Apple Podcasts / Acast / Stitcher / iHeartRadio + othersSee you on the Battlefield soon Team...Onwards!!!THE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - 4 STAR GENERALSANDREW WARD, DOUGLAS ANDERSON, STEVEN ARMSTRONG, BARRY WARD, MICK WHITWORTH, JEANIE RUSSELL, LAURA DERRICK, MALCOLM McKECHNIE, STEPHEN BARTON, ALASDAIR BLAIR, MARK DUNSMORE, AMY ROBERTSON, KYLE STEWART, STEVEN McLAUGHLIN, GLEN MacPHERSON, MARTYN WALLACE, KRIS ARMSTRONG, DONALD MORAN, ANDY HENDERSON, JACK MacDONALD, GARY McCOLL, DEREK BOWERS, BETH McCAFFERTY, CAMMIE KING, CRAIG McKIE, NICOLA ALLARDICE, ROBERT GILLON, THOMAS MARR.THE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - LIEUTENANT COLONEL'SSIMON MEEK, ROBERT BAIRD, STEPHEN WILSON, LEWIS CAVANAGH, LOUISE THOMSON, ANDREW, GORDON HUNTER, GAVIN HOLMS, JACK KING, TAMMY CLANCY, LEANNA CASSIDY, MARK HUGHES, BOBBY CURRIE, JASON CHAU, PAUL JAMESON, CHRIS, RYAN McGOWAN. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thescottgibsonshow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 31 of The Battlefield Show...Live from The Death Bunker...wash your hands after listening to this show!The 11th Episode since the LOCKDOWN and another week stuck at home. This week recycling, beer, sign language, amongst other things...and of course listener questions. Stay safe Team, speak soon.Remember to SUBSCRIBE & SHARE ya Rascals. Lets build the Battlefield Army during these End of Days.SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: twitter.com/BigScottGibsonInstagram: www.instagram.com/bigscottgibson/Facebook: www.facebook.com/scottgibsoncomedySUPPORT THE SHOWPatreon: www.patreon.com/bigscottgibsonKo-fi: ko-fi.com/bigscottgibsonMAILING LISTwww.scottgibsoncomedy.co.uk/signupAVAILABLE ONSpotify / Apple Podcasts / Acast / Stitcher / iHeartRadio + othersSee you on the Battlefield soon Team...Onwards!!!THE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - 4 STAR GENERALSANDREW WARD, DOUGLAS ANDERSON, STEVEN ARMSTRONG, BARRY WARD, MICK WHITWORTH, JEANIE RUSSELL, LAURA DERRICK, MALCOLM McKECHNIE, STEPHEN BARTON, ALASDAIR BLAIR, MARK DUNSMORE, AMY ROBERTSON, KYLE STEWART, STEVEN McLAUGHLIN, GLEN MacPHERSON, MARTYN WALLACE, KRIS ARMSTRONG, DONALD MORAN, ANDY HENDERSON, JACK MacDONALD, GARY McCOLL, DEREK BOWERS, BETH McCAFFERTY, CAMMIE KING, CRAIG McKIE, NICOLA ALLARDICE.THE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - LIEUTENANT COLONEL'SSIMON MEEK, ROBERT BAIRD, STEPHEN WILSON, LEWIS CAVANAGH, LOUISE THOMSON, ANDREW, GORDON HUNTER, GAVIN HOLMS, JACK KING, TAMMY CLANCY, LEANNA CASSIDY, MARK HUGHES, BOBBY CURRIE, JASON CHAU, PAUL JAMESON, CHRIS, RYAN McGOWAN. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thescottgibsonshow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 30 of The Battlefield Show...Live from The Death Bunker...wash your hands after listening to this show!The tenth Episode since the LOCKDOWN and another week stuck at home. This week I have a few words to say about Joe Rogan's Spotify deal, Premiership Footballers being tested before NHS Staff, Bojangles and Cummings get a mention, and of course some listener questions. Stay safe Team, speak soon.Remember to SUBSCRIBE & SHARE ya Rascals. Lets build the Battlefield Army during these End of Days.SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: twitter.com/BigScottGibsonInstagram: www.instagram.com/bigscottgibson/Facebook: www.facebook.com/scottgibsoncomedySUPPORT THE SHOWPatreon: www.patreon.com/bigscottgibsonKo-fi: ko-fi.com/bigscottgibsonMAILING LISTwww.scottgibsoncomedy.co.uk/signupAVAILABLE ONSpotify / Apple Podcasts / Acast / Stitcher / iHeartRadio + othersSee you on the Battlefield soon Team...Onwards!!!THE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - 4 STAR GENERALSANDREW WARD, DOUGLAS ANDERSON, STEVEN ARMSTRONG, BARRY WARD, MICK WHITWORTH, JEANIE RUSSELL, LAURA DERRICK, MALCOLM McKECHNIE, STEPHEN BARTON, ALASDAIR BLAIR, MARK DUNSMORE, AMY ROBERTSON, KYLE STEWART, STEVEN McLAUGHLIN, GLEN MacPHERSON, MARTYN WALLACE, KRIS ARMSTRONG, DONALD MORAN, ANDY HENDERSON, JACK MacDONALD, GARY McCOLL, DEREK BOWERS, BETH McCAFFERTY, CAMMIE KING, CRAIG McKIE, NICOLA ALLARDICE.THE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - LIEUTENANT COLONEL'SSIMON MEEK, ROBERT BAIRD, STEPHEN WILSON, LEWIS CAVANAGH, LOUISE THOMSON, ANDREW, GORDON HUNTER, GAVIN HOLMS, JACK KING, TAMMY CLANCY, LEANNA CASSIDY, MARK HUGHES, BOBBY CURRIE, JASON CHAU, PAUL JAMESON, CHRIS. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thescottgibsonshow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 29 of The Battlefield Show...Live from The Death Bunker...wash your hands after listening to this show!The Nineth Episode since the LOCKDOWN and another week stuck at home. As I'm writing this blurb 24hrs after recording the dam thing I can't remember what I was moaning about this week, but enjoy it. Stay safe Team, speak soon.**OVER 10,000 DOWNLOADS**Remember to SUBSCRIBE & SHARE ya Rascals. Lets build the Battlefield Army during these End of Days.SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: twitter.com/BigScottGibsonInstagram: www.instagram.com/bigscottgibson/Facebook: www.facebook.com/scottgibsoncomedySUPPORT THE SHOWPatreon: www.patreon.com/bigscottgibsonKo-fi: ko-fi.com/bigscottgibsonMAILING LISTwww.scottgibsoncomedy.co.uk/signupAVAILABLE ONSpotify / Apple Podcasts / Acast / Stitcher / iHeartRadio + othersSee you on the Battlefield soon Team...Onwards!!!THE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - 4 STAR GENERALSANDREW WARD, DOUGLAS ANDERSON, STEVEN ARMSTRONG, BARRY WARD, MICK WHITWORTH, JEANIE RUSSELL, LAURA DERRICK, MALCOLM McKECHNIE, STEPHEN BARTON, ALASDAIR BLAIR, MARK DUNSMORE, AMY ROBERTSON, KYLE STEWART, STEVEN McLAUGHLIN, GLEN MacPHERSON, MARTYN WALLACE, KRIS ARMSTRONG, DONALD MORAN, ANDY HENDERSON, JACK MacDONALD, GARY McCOLL, DEREK BOWERS, BETH McCAFFERTY, CAMMIE KING, CRAIG McKIE, NICOLA ALLARDICE.THE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - LIEUTENANT COLONEL'SSIMON MEEK, ROBERT BAIRD, STEPHEN WILSON, LEWIS CAVANAGH, LOUISE THOMSON, ANDREW, GORDON HUNTER, GAVIN HOLMS, JACK KING, TAMMY CLANCY, LEANNA CASSIDY, MARK HUGHES, BOBBY CURRIE, JASON CHAU, PAUL JAMESON, CHRIS. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thescottgibsonshow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 28 of The Battlefield Show...Live from The Death Bunker...wash your hands after listening to this show!Eighth Episode since the LOCKDOWN and Bojangles wants you back at work. This time it's another angry rant fest as Adele gets a mention, along with Normal People, Drag Race Allstars and TikTok bastards...as well as some Listeners Questions. Stay safe Team, speak soon.**OVER 10,000 DOWNLOADS**Remember to SUBSCRIBE & SHARE ya Rascals. Lets build the Battlefield Army during these End of Days.SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: twitter.com/BigScottGibsonInstagram: www.instagram.com/bigscottgibson/Facebook: www.facebook.com/scottgibsoncomedySUPPORT THE SHOWPatreon: www.patreon.com/bigscottgibsonKo-fi: ko-fi.com/bigscottgibsonMAILING LISTwww.scottgibsoncomedy.co.uk/signupAVAILABLE ONSpotify / Apple Podcasts / Acast / Stitcher / iHeartRadio + othersSee you on the Battlefield soon Team...Onwards!!!THE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - 4 STAR GENERALSANDREW WARD, DOUGLAS ANDERSON, STEVEN ARMSTRONG, BARRY WARD, MICK WHITWORTH, JEANIE RUSSELL, LAURA DERRICK, MALCOLM McKECHNIE, STEPHEN BARTON, ALASDAIR BLAIR, MARK DUNSMORE, AMY ROBERTSON, KYLE STEWART, STEVEN McLAUGHLIN, GLEN MacPHERSON, MARTYN WALLACE, KRIS ARMSTRONG, DONALD MORAN, ANDY HENDERSON, JACK MacDONALD, GARY McCOLL, DEREK BOWERS, BETH McCAFFERTY, CAMMIE KING, CRAIG McKIE, NICOLA ALLARDICE.THE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - LIEUTENANT COLONEL'SSIMON MEEK, ROBERT BAIRD, STEPHEN WILSON, LEWIS CAVANAGH, LOUISE THOMSON, ANDREW, GORDON HUNTER, GAVIN HOLMS, JACK KING, TAMMY CLANCY, LEANNA CASSIDY, MARK HUGHES, BOBBY CURRIE, JASON CHAU, PAUL JAMESON, CHRIS. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thescottgibsonshow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 27 of The Battlefield Show...Live from The Death Bunker...wash your hands after listening to this show!Seventh Episode since the LOCKDOWN and the world is going mad. monkeys are trying to steal weans off the street, yer old da is getting so fat, I may need cut out this house, and there is a rant or two about fitness equipment as well as some Listeners Questions. Stay safe Team, speak soon.**OVER 10,000 DOWNLOADS**Remember to SUBSCRIBE & SHARE ya Rascals. Lets build the Battlefield Army during these End of Days.SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: twitter.com/BigScottGibsonInstagram: www.instagram.com/bigscottgibson/Facebook: www.facebook.com/scottgibsoncomedySUPPORT THE SHOWPatreon: www.patreon.com/bigscottgibsonKo-fi: ko-fi.com/bigscottgibsonMAILING LISTwww.scottgibsoncomedy.co.uk/signupAVAILABLE ONSpotify / Apple Podcasts / Acast / Stitcher / iHeartRadio + othersSee you on the Battlefield soon Team...Onwards!!!THE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - 4 STAR GENERALSANDREW WARD, DOUGLAS ANDERSON, STEVEN ARMSTRONG, BARRY WARD, MICK WHITWORTH, JEANIE RUSSELL, LAURA DERRICK, MALCOLM McKECHNIE, STEPHEN BARTON, ALASDAIR BLAIR, MARK DUNSMORE, AMY ROBERTSON, KYLE STEWART, STEVEN McLAUGHLIN, GLEN MacPHERSON, MARTYN WALLACE, KRIS ARMSTRONG, DONALD MORAN, ANDY HENDERSON, JACK MacDONALD, GARY McCOLL, DEREK BOWERS, BETH McCAFFERTY, CAMMIE KINGTHE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - LIEUTENANT COLONEL'SSIMON MEEK, ROBERT BAIRD, STEPHEN WILSON, LEWIS CAVANAGH, LOUISE THOMSON, ANDREW, GORDON HUNTER, GAVIN HOLMS, JACK KING, TAMMY CLANCY, LEANNA CASSIDY, MARK HUGHES, BOBBY CURRIE, JASON CHAU, PAUL JAMESON. Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thescottgibsonshow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 26 of The Battlefield Show...Live from The Death Bunker...wash your hands after listening to this show!Sixth Episode since the LOCKDOWN and I'm missing good coffee, really missing it...and brunch. More rants, more chat. Japan gets a mention, the NHS, Unorthodox on Netflix as well as some Listeners Questions. Stay safe Team, speak soon.**OVER 10,000 DOWNLOADS**Remember to SUBSCRIBE & SHARE ya Rascals. Lets build the Battlefield Army during these End of Days.SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: twitter.com/BigScottGibsonInstagram: www.instagram.com/bigscottgibson/Facebook: www.facebook.com/scottgibsoncomedySUPPORT THE SHOWPatreon: www.patreon.com/bigscottgibsonKo-fi: ko-fi.com/bigscottgibsonMAILING LISTwww.scottgibsoncomedy.co.uk/signupAVAILABLE ONSpotify / Apple Podcasts / Acast / Stitcher / iHeartRadio + othersSee you on the Battlefield soon Team...Onwards!!!THE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - 4 STAR GENERALSANDREW WARD, DOUGLAS ANDERSON, STEVEN ARMSTRONG, BARRY WARD, MICK WHITWORTH, JEANIE RUSSELL, LAURA DERRICK, MALCOLM McKECHNIE, STEPHEN BARTON, ALASDAIR BLAIR, MARK DUNSMORE, AMY ROBERTSON, KYLE STEWART, STEVEN McLAUGHLIN, GLEN MacPHERSON, MARTYN WALLACE, KRIS ARMSTRONG, DONALD MORAN, ANDY HENDERSON, JACK MacDONALD, GARY McCOLL, DEREK BOWERSTHE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - LIEUTENANT COLONEL'SSIMON MEEK, ROBERT BAIRD, STEPHEN WILSON, LEWIS CAVANAGH, LOUISE THOMSON, ANDREW, GORDON HUNTER, GAVIN HOLMS, JACK KING, TAMMY CLANCY, LEANNA CASSIDY, MARK HUGHES, BOBBY CURRIE Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thescottgibsonshow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 25 of The Battlefield Show...Live from The Death Bunker...wash your hands after listening to this show!Fifth Episode since the LOCKDOWN . Bit of chat about some Netflix Specials, the Cigars have arrived and its a general bit of chit chat. As well as a mention for my new Comedy Albums that are out to download. Stay safe Team, speak soon.Remember to SUBSCRIBE & SHARE ya Rascals. Lets build the Battlefield Army during these End of Days.SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: twitter.com/BigScottGibsonInstagram: www.instagram.com/bigscottgibson/Facebook: www.facebook.com/scottgibsoncomedySUPPORT THE SHOWPatreon: www.patreon.com/bigscottgibsonKo-fi: ko-fi.com/bigscottgibsonMAILING LISTwww.scottgibsoncomedy.co.uk/signupAVAILABLE ONSpotify / Apple Podcasts / Acast / Stitcher / iHeartRadio + othersSee you on the Battlefield soon Team...Onwards!!!THE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - 4 STAR GENERALSANDREW WARD, DOUGLAS ANDERSON, STEVEN ARMSTRONG, BARRY WARD, MICK WHITWORTH, JEANIE RUSSELL, LAURA DERRICK, MALCOLM McKECHNIE, STEPHEN BARTON, ALASDAIR BLAIR, MARK DUNSMORE, AMY ROBERTSON, KYLE STEWART, STEVEN McLAUGHLIN, GLEN MacPHERSON, MARTYN WALLACE, KRIS ARMSTRONG, DONALD MORAN, ANDY HENDERSONTHE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - LIEUTENANT COLONEL'SSIMON MEEK, ROBERT BAIRD, STEPHEN WILSON, LEWIS CAVANAGH, LOUISE THOMSON, ANDREW, GORDON HUNTER, GAVIN HOLMS, JACK KING, TAMMY CLANCY, LEANNA CASSIDY, MARK HUGHES Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thescottgibsonshow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 24 of The Battlefield Show...Live from The Death Bunker...wash your hands after listening to this show!Fourth Episode since the LOCKDOWN . Trying my best to avoid the Covid-19 Chat, but once again it proves difficult. A Racist Granny gets a bashing, along with some optimistic views on our impending death haha, a few listeners questions to top it off. Stay safe Team.Remember to SUBSCRIBE & SHARE ya Rascals. Lets build the Battlefield Army during these End of Days.SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: twitter.com/BigScottGibsonInstagram: www.instagram.com/bigscottgibson/Facebook: www.facebook.com/scottgibsoncomedySUPPORT THE SHOWPatreon: www.patreon.com/bigscottgibsonKo-fi: ko-fi.com/bigscottgibsonMAILING LISTwww.scottgibsoncomedy.co.uk/signupAVAILABLE ONSpotify / Apple Podcasts / Acast / Stitcher / iHeartRadio + othersSee you on the Battlefield soon Team...Onwards!!!THE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - 4 STAR GENERALSANDREW WARD, DOUGLAS ANDERSON, STEVEN ARMSTRONG, BARRY WARD, MICK WHITWORTH, JEANIE RUSSELL, LAURA DERRICK, MALCOLM McKECHNIE, STEPHEN BARTON, ALASDAIR BLAIR, MARK DUNSMORE, AMY ROBERTSON, KYLE STEWART, STEVEN McLAUGHLIN, GLEN MacPHERSON, MARTYN WALLACETHE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - LIEUTENANT COLONEL'SSIMON MEEK, ROBERT BAIRD, STEPHEN WILSON, LEWIS CAVANAGH, ANDY, LOUISE THOMSON, ANDREW, GORDON HUNTER, GAVIN HOLMS, JACK KING, TAMMY CLANCY, LEANNA CASSIDY, MARK HUGHES Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thescottgibsonshow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Episode 23 of The Battlefield Show...Live from The Death Bunker...wash your hands after listening to this show!Third Episode since the LOCKDOWN . Trying my best to avoid the Covid-19 Chat, but once again it proves difficult. Kyle Walker and his sex workers get a mention, along with the sex toy industry and some questions from our legendary Patreon members.Remember to SUBSCRIBE & SHARE ya Rascals. Lets build the Battlefield Army during these End of Days.SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: twitter.com/BigScottGibsonInstagram: www.instagram.com/bigscottgibson/Facebook: www.facebook.com/scottgibsoncomedySUPPORT THE SHOWPatreon: www.patreon.com/bigscottgibsonKo-fi: ko-fi.com/bigscottgibsonMAILING LISTwww.scottgibsoncomedy.co.uk/signupAVAILABLE ONSpotify / Apple Podcasts / Acast / Stitcher / iHeartRadio + othersSee you on the Battlefield soon Team...Onwards!!!THE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - 4 STAR GENERALSANDREW WARD, DOUGLAS ANDERSON, STEVEN ARMSTRONG, BARRY WARD, MICK WHITWORTH, JEANIE RUSSELL, LAURA DERRICK, MALCOLM McKECHNIE, STEPHEN BARTON, ALASDAIR BLAIR, MARK DUNSMORE, AMY ROBERTSON, KYLE STEWART, STEVEN McLAUGHLIN, GLEN MacPHERSONTHE BATTLEFIELD ARMY - LIEUTENANT COLONEL'SSIMON MEEK, ROBERT BAIRD, STEPHEN WILSON, LEWIS CAVANAGH, ANDY, LOUISE THOMSON, ANDREW, GORDON HUNTER, GAVIN HOLMS, JACK KING, TAMMY CLANCY, LEANNA CASSIDY Get bonus content on PatreonSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/thescottgibsonshow. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Intensive blood pressure (BP) control reduces the risk of cardiovascular events and mortality, but the verdict isn't in yet on the benefits of intensive control to prevent the development of dementia. Previous studies have shown an inconsistent relationship between blood pressure control and cognitive decline. SPRINT-MIND, using data from SPRINT, was designed to evaluate the effects of intensive BP control on cognitive outcomes including probable dementia and mild cognitive impairment. Guest Authors:  Michelle Balli, PharmD, BCACP and Amy Robertson, PharmD, BCACP Music by Good Talk

Tim talks with Amy Robertson, an old high school friend. She sadly developed stage 4 Lung Cancer and, during National Cancer Awareness Month, she shared her story with our audience. It is interesting she never smoked and never worked in a building where hazardous chemicals were used. Her cancer has spread and she is doing somewhat better. During this time, her faith has really helped her and she has grown closer to the Lord. Tim also spoke with Cecila Manuela, a singer songwriter from Lancaster. She will release her first CD soon and Tim played the title song on air. The music was birthed in the thought that she wanted to square her life with the Lord. Tim also talked with Rosanne Placey, Manager of Media and Public Relations for the PA Turnpike. She spoke of traffic and construction on the turnpike this holiday season. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Amy Robertson, MM, MT-BC At the Walt Disney Pavilion at Florida Hospital for Children, the music therapy team has started rounding with NICU physicians and other staff which has improved communication as well as orders for music therapy services. In this podcast, the current protocol for receiving music therapy orders is discussed as well asRead more about Rounding With Medical Staff to Increase Music Therapy Awareness in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit[…]