Pastor Liz
WildWood On The Move
We are excited to announce that WildWood is ready to make the move to a new and BIGGER location. It has been such a gift to spend the...
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Pastor Liz
- Aug 22, 2017
- 1 min
WildWood Concert with Claire Hitchens
Join us in the Rose Garden picnic shelter at Priest Point Park for a special WildWood Gathering summer concert with Claire Hitchins. ...
Pastor Liz
- Aug 10, 2017
- 1 min
The inQUEERy Narwhal
Because we meet in an AMAZING bookstore I often come across some pretty wonderful books on Sundays. Not Quite Narwal, by Jessie Sima is...
Pastor Liz
- Aug 1, 2017
- 6 min
The Beloved Kin-dom | Matthew 13:32-33, 44-52
This week's reflection was done as a group. I provided some insight and then together we discussed and explored the text. I invite you to...
Pastor Liz
- Jul 16, 2017
- 7 min
Sowing Seeds | Matthew 13:1-10,13-16
**The website host has removed the option to upload audio...I'm very annoyed. So while I' try to find a work around here is the text of...
Pastor Liz
- Jun 16, 2017
- 1 min
WildWood Pride
WildWood Gathering has been queering church since 2016! Join us as we march in the Olympia Pride Parade on June 17, we'll gather at the...
Pastor Liz
- Apr 30, 2017
- 5 min
Emmaus Moments | Luke 24:13-35
I'm trying something new. I'm a little nervous about it, but I've started recording my reflections or sermons each week. It seemed...
Pastor Liz
- Apr 20, 2017
- 9 min
Lynching & Resurrection | Easter
This is a two-part sermon told in sacred story and reflection. I've included selected text of the Common English translation. Mark...
Pastor Liz
- Apr 11, 2017
- 7 min
#Resistance | Palm Sunday
There were two very different kinds of processions in the city that week, one right after the other. One involved pom and circumstance,...
Pastor Liz
- Apr 4, 2017
- 5 min
Ruah | Ezekiel 37:1-10 and Romans 8:6-9
Have you ever stood outside in a field or in the forest and felt the breeze dance around you, rustling leaves and your hair? Have you...
Pastor Liz
- Mar 26, 2017
- 5 min
Spiritual Sight | John 9
“I have come into the world to exercise judgment so that those who don’t see can see and those who see will become blind.” - John 9:39...
Pastor Liz
- Mar 8, 2017
- 2 min
Women: Wild & Holy
In the church cycles and seasons the color red symbolizes the presence of the Holy Spirit. Representative of tongues of fire, the season...
Pastor Liz
- Feb 24, 2017
- 2 min
You are stardust and to stardust you shall return.
We remember that life is begotten from stardust, radiant in light and heat. We are all one - all of creation, all that now live, all that...
Pastor Liz
- Feb 13, 2017
- 4 min
Love God, Love Neighbor | Isaiah 58
A century and a half ago, as he led the faith-rooted struggle against slavery in America, Frederick Douglass wrote, "Between the...
Pastor Liz
- Dec 19, 2016
- 4 min
Incarnation | Advent 4
There are some theological concepts that I shy away from because I’m not sure what I believe about them myself. I don’t always feel...
Pastor Liz
- Dec 13, 2016
- 5 min
Mary Did You Know? | Advent 3
We’ve spent the first weeks of Advent in the first testament of the bible looking at the prophetic words, the visions told by Isaiah that...
Pastor Liz
- Nov 24, 2016
- 2 min
Gratitude
In the winter I am writing about, there is much darkness. Darkness of nature, darkness of event, darkness of the spirit. The sprawling...
Pastor Liz
- Nov 10, 2016
- 2 min
Lament
I’m angry friends. I’m heartbroken and angry. I am not ready to “get to work”. I am not ready to “dust myself off”. I am not ready to...
Pastor Liz
- Nov 8, 2016
- 5 min
Anxiety & Faith | Matthew 5:1-16
This week has felt dark. This past week before the time changed felt so dark. The days and days of rain certainty aren’t helping, it was...
Pastor Liz
- Oct 31, 2016
- 6 min
WWJD + Standing Rock
When I was young in the late 1990’s among my rather conservative christian friends WWJD, what would Jesus do, became a popular motto....
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