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Held at Epiphany Lutheran Church
9122 Sybert Dr
Ellicott City, MD 21043

Office: 3525 Ellicott Mills Drive, Suite A
Ellicott City, MD 21043
Courthouse Square Office Complex

Sermons by Rev. Jane Bennett Smith

Practicing Presence

This Sunday, we welcome the true blessing that is presence in the current moment. Together we explore how this practice frees us from the depression of living in the past and the anxiety of residing in the future, while welcoming the peace that arises when we are fully present in the now.  When we give this to ourselves, we are further able to cultivate full and…

The Heart’s Memory

This Sunday, we lift up and celebrate sacred and ancient indigenous knowledge, reflecting on lessons of a grateful existence.  Through this commitment to the art of gratitude, we cultivate a sense of appreciation of the fullness of life. How can this indigenous practice reorient us in a life of abundant blessings?

When Repair Transforms

This week, we explore the vulnerable and intimate experience of interpersonal repair. By exploring a Jewish practice as articulated by the philosopher Maimonides, we engage on a journey of making amends. This journey is both victim-centered and self-transformational, and it neither begins or ends in apology.  Centered in the wisdom of the spirit and with the intention of initiating deep healing to those…

Reuniting the Light

This Sunday, we gather in a space of uncertainty and brokenness.  Building upon our monthly theme, I invite us into a reflection on the theology of repair.  We cultivate that which grounds us amidst any situation where the heart, spirit, and body are in a state of disease. What is broken can be made whole, a Jewish wisdom tale tells us.  We…

The Whispers of Our Ancestors

Those who have passed through the veil of the living to the dead, who have departed from the realm of the mortal, who are part of all that is beautiful and awe-filled, are never truly gone. This Sunday, we explore how our ancestors live on as we listen to their voices in the whisper of the wind, in an answer to prayers, in a moment…