Episodes

Monday Jul 18, 2022
Lord, Do You Not Care? - July 17th, 2022
Monday Jul 18, 2022
Monday Jul 18, 2022
Lord, Do You Not Care?
A guest sermon preached by Stacey Cole Wilson at Foundry UMC July 10th, 2022. “Living The Questions” series.
Text: LUKE 10:38-42
Stacey Cole Wilson is the Executive Minister of Beloved Community for the Baltimore-Washington Conference of The United Methodist Church. She is a wife, mother, ordained minister, igniter of social change, and a champion for human rights. She received a call into ministry as a youth and is a believer that the greatest gift of God is unconditional love. Before joining the Conference Staff, Dr. Wilson served as the Lead Pastor of Good Hope Union UMC in Silver Spring, MD (2012-2016), the Pastor of Mount Winans United Methodist Church in Baltimore (2007- 2012), and as the Associate Pastor of Linthicum Heights United Methodist Church in Linthicum, Maryland (2003-2007). As a writer and minister, she has received national acclaim for her prayers and litanies published in the award-winning Africana Worship Book; and, she has been honored to receive and share the Word of God nationally and internationally for the glory of God and upbuilding of the nations. She has served as Wesley Theological Seminary’s Commencement Preacher/Speaker at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Princeton University Chapel’s Guest Preacher for their Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Service of Recommitment, and United Theological Seminary’s Distinguished Doctoral Alum of the Year. As an ardent believer in education and community service, Dr. Wilson serves on the Board of Governors for Wesley Theological Seminary, is an executive member of the Northeastern Jurisdiction United Methodist Volunteers in Mission (NEJUMVIM), is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF) and is a founding member and chaplain of the Female Clergy Support Group of Maryland among many other committees, boards and agencies. Stacey earned her undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Morgan State University and has worked professionally as a Senior Analytical Chemist specializing in Petroleum and Materials Characterization via Mass Spectrometry, X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF), and X-Ray Diffraction (XRD). She has earned a Master of Divinity degree from Wesley Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the United Theological Seminary with an emphasis on Collaborative Community-Church Partnerships. She is a distinguished Foundations of Church Leadership Duke Divinity Fellow, Lewis Fellow, Lewis Community Leaders Fellow, Transition in Ministry (TiM) Excellence Fellow, and was a participant in The Joseph Engle Preaching Roundtable (3 Yr. Program) at Princeton Theological Seminary in NJ. She is the daughter of Gary and Pearl Cole; wife of International Music Producer and Pastor Wayne Wilson; and, mother of two great joys in her life, Ava, and Christian Wilson.

Monday Jul 11, 2022
Who Is My Neighbor? - July 10th, 2022
Monday Jul 11, 2022
Monday Jul 11, 2022
Who Is My Neighbor?
A guest sermon preached by Reverend Bryant M. Oskvig at Foundry UMC July 10th, 2022. “Living The Questions” series.
Text: LUKE 10:25-37
The Reverend Bryant M. Oskvig, an ordained elder of the United Methodist Church, has been working on university campuses since 1998. He received his Master of Divinity from Boston University, where he also earned an MBA in Public/ Non-Profit Management. Rev. Oskvig is now completing his doctoral studies focused on the Black Christian mysticism of Howard Thurman and personal moral awakening at Wesley Theological Seminary where he was also a Lewis Fellow in the center of Congregational Leadership. Rev. Oskvig, known as Rev. O on campus, served in a number of United Methodist congregations in New York, Massachusetts, DC, and Maryland prior to full-time campus ministry. He further has been involved in the broader United Methodist Church having served in leadership on administrative councils and committees. Rev. Oskvig was elected by his peers to serve as delegate to the Northeast Jurisdictional Conference, and he has participated in several conversations and gatherings across the United States about LGBTQIA+ belonging, white supremacy, and the future of the United Methodist Church. Having come to American University in 2019, Rev. Oskvig was confirmed as the 11th University Chaplain and designated as a Scholar in Residence for the Department of Philosophy and Religion. Rev. Oskvig is responsible for animating the broadly inclusive Methodist spirit as a founding principle of American University. He does this through engagement in conversations and worship experiences connected to the Christian identity and through raising awareness and sensitivities to the needs of the many different religious and cultural traditions represented at American University. Rev. Oskvig is married to Dr. Devon R. Oskvig who is a Program Director in the Division of Neuroscince at the National Institute on Aging, where she oversees a large federal program of basic science and clinical research studies. They have four children, who swim, hike, and eat ice cream.

Monday Jul 04, 2022
Isn’t My River Better Than Theirs? - July 7th, 2022
Monday Jul 04, 2022
Monday Jul 04, 2022
Isn't My River Better Than Theirs?
A sermon preached by Rev. Ginger E. Gaines-Cirelli at Foundry UMC July 7th, 2022. “Living The Questions” series.
Text: 2 KINGS 5:1-14
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Monday Jun 27, 2022
Where is the God of Elijah? - June 26th, 2022
Monday Jun 27, 2022
Monday Jun 27, 2022
Where is the God of Elijah?
A sermon preached by Rev. Ginger E. Gaines-Cirelli at Foundry UMC June 26th, 2022. “Living The Questions” series.
Text: LUKE 9:51-62
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Monday Jun 20, 2022
What Is Your Name? - June 19th, 2022
Monday Jun 20, 2022
Monday Jun 20, 2022
What Is Your Name?
A sermon preached by Rev. Ginger E. Gaines-Cirelli at Foundry UMC June 19th, 2022. “Living The Questions" series.
Text: PSALM 42 & LUKE 8:26-39
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