Congregationalism & Churches
Mikhail Manzurin prayed for Ukraine during church services and eventually fled to the United States. In September 2022, five days after Russian president Vladimir Putin announced the mobilization of 300,000 military reservists to continue his country’s invasion of Ukraine, Mikhail Manzurin took a bus from Russia into Kazakhstan and did not return. The 25-year-old was… Read More
A new book records the reflections on church and state in China by the imprisoned pastor and other house church leaders. When I first met Wang Yi, he ushered me into a conference room overlooking a landscape of old and slightly run-down office buildings in central Chengdu, western China’s most important metropolis. It was 2011,… Read More
Pastor Lillian Daniel’s sermon is on Prayers for a Jazzy New Year, with a poetic blessing text from Jeremiah 31:7-14. It seems appropriate for this occasion that we also share the sacrament of communion to begin the year in the right spirit. The Rev. Dr. Lillian Daniel, First Congregational United Church of Christ Dubuque, IA
Senior Pastor Lillian Daniel preaches on Luke 5:1-11 where Jesus takes the disciples fishing and miraculously, their boats end up so full, they are afraid they might sink. Sometimes, success is not all it’s cracked up to be. The Rev. Dr. Lillian Daniel, First Congregational United Church of Christ Dubuque, IA
This Sunday, Senior Pastor Lillian Daniel is preaching on Jesus’s first public miracle, which was turning water into wine at the wedding in Cana, from John 2:1-11. The Rev. Dr. Lillian Daniel, First Congregational United Church of Christ Dubuque, IA
“What unites us?” But we’re not the first generation to ask that question. In his letter in 1 Corinthians 12:1-11, Paul said, “Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit,” and that’s what I’ll be preaching on this Sunday, with a few thoughts on the future of the church. The Rev. Dr. Lillian… Read More
This Sunday Pastor Lillian Daniel preaches on Epiphany and the Three Kings who visited the baby Jesus from far away lands in Matthew 2:1-12. These wise men had different religious and cultural traditions but they could see that they were united in the gift of the Christ child. Here’s a lighthearted video interview I did… Read More