Listening & Learning: Shannon Dycus

We continue our summer worship series in which we listen to and learn from Black preachers. Today: Shannon Dycus, former pastor of First Mennonite Church in Indianapolis IN, and current Dean of Students at Eastern Mennonite University. We listened to Shannon’s 2016 sermon, delivered at Christian Theological Seminary, in which she in which she invites us to consider lament - Jesus’ and our own - in light of Jesus' image of our mother hen God gathering her brood to her breast with tenderness and vulnerability. [Sermon begins at 19:00, prayers at 34:35.]
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Luke 13.31-35
PHOTO: lettering by Amy Marie Epp, 2020
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Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.

• Come thou fount - Text: Robert Robinson, 1758; Music: American folk melody, J. Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music, Part Second, 1813 - public domain.
• Jesus Loves Me - Text: Anna B. Warner, 1859; Music: William B. Bradbury, 1862

Other credits:

• Holy Spirit, come with power - Text: ©1970 Anne N. Rupp; Music: The Sacred Harp, 1844; harm. by Joan A Fyock ©1989, from Hymnal: A Worship Book, 26
• Children’s Time book: The Last Stop on Market Street, by Matt de la Peña