Sunday service with guest speaker Rev. Brian Sauder

Rev. Sauder recently watched the Broadway musical Redwood, featuring the unshakable and powerful Idina Menzel. This sermon, inspired by the show, reflects on the resilience of the redwood—standing strong through storms, fire, and the rise and fall of history’s most powerful and cruel leaders. What wisdom does the redwood offer us? How might our perspectives shift when we enter into relationship and conversation with the wisdom of the Earth around us?

Rev. Sauder serves as the President and CEO of Faith in Place, a nonprofit empowering people of diverse faiths and spiritualities to be leaders in advancing environmental and racial justice by providing resources to educate, connect, and advocate for healthier communities. Ordained by the Mennonite Church, U.S.A.—Rev. Sauder also serves as an Adjunct Professor at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, and McCormick Theological Seminary—teaching public ministry courses for future clergy and faith leaders on organizing…