Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church

05/22/2026

Information on free meals this summer

When school is not in session, like on May 25-27, children can eat free meals and snacks at many Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board, Hennepin County Library, and community sites. Children do not need to attend Minneapolis Public Schools to participate.

Find more information at mpschools.org/community-sites.

04/22/2026

Yesterday, our CEO, Hoang Murphy, testified before the Minneapolis City Council in support of a temporary change to the pre-eviction filing notice (from 30 to 45 days) so that renters have more time to pay their rent.

The Council voted 8 to 5 to pass the eviction filing extension. This action—coupled with the City’s actions to expand emergency rental assistance funding to $3.8 million (with the Wilson Foundation to match every dollar for a total of $7.6 million) — is exactly what families need. Right now, families need time (eviction extension) and money (rental assistance). You can hear Hoang Murphy’s testimony (minute 33:36) at loom.ly/QJq_65k.

Thank you to Council Members Chowdhury, Chughtai, Chavez, Osman and Stevenson for co-authoring the ordinance amendment and Council Members Wonsley, Payne, and Whiting, for voting in support of this important measure to protect our most vulnerable neighbors.

04/19/2026

The church cannot be silent — but what should it say?

Author and Columbia Seminary professor William Yoo urges people of faith to speak against White Christian nationalism.

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Montreat Conference Center
Columbia Theological Seminary

04/09/2026

Risen Christ, the Easter story is a reminder that nothing could contain you—no tomb, no body, no violent act. You are alive in the world, unfettered and beckoning us to follow. Lead me to the places you have called me to be. Show me where you’re headed. I want to be there, too. Amen.

—prayer by Rev. Sarah A. Speed |

04/08/2026

Every morning the sun rises,
majestic and steady.
She is greeted
in all her strength
with the joyous cacophony of birdsong.
I like to believe
this holy chorus
is the birds telling each other—
I’m here.
We made it through the night.
You’re not alone.
What good, good news.

—excerpt from the poem “Birdsong” by Rev. Sarah A. Speed |

04/07/2026

Living God, there is so much to be grateful for. Even in the midst of death, new life emerges. Thank you for the flowers that push up through the snow. Thank you for the sun that rises each morning. Thank you for young people who bring energy to tired places. Thank you for hope on the horizon. Thank you for birdsong and new friends and the old, old story of your endless love. Thank you for all the things that help me feel full to the brim with life. Amen.

—prayer by Rev. Sarah A. Speed |

04/06/2026

“How can we trust resurrection when death is on the world’s throne?

Because Jesus knows what we will always need to be reminded of: the good news is greater than any tyrant. The good news of God is more alive than anything that tries to kill God, more alive than anything that tries to kill the imago dei in all of us. Kings come and kings go, and we may tremble still—but God? God shakes the earth with power and might so tender and so fresh it can make a tomb bloom with new life.

Amen, alleluia.”

—Rev. Lizzie McManus-Dail (.mcmizzie), from her commentary on Matthew 28:1-10 |

04/05/2026

“The good news is alive in the world. Do not be afraid. Go back to Galilee. Go back to Galilee where it all started. Go back to Galilee and celebrate like we did at the beginning when we were not afraid, when these words of liberation had not yet drawn the trappings of imperial ex*****on.

Here in this artwork, the crowd is celebrating. Figures are dancing and dancing and dancing. Doves fly among the dancers, breaking borders, Holy Spirit. This throng is in the vacant space of the empty cross.… Around the dancing figures in Galilee, patterns of doves disperse outward. The good news, the euaggelion, is alive in the world.”

—from the artist’s statement for “Meet Me in Galilee” by Hannah Garrity |

04/04/2026

When we backed Jesus into a corner,
he loved and loved and loved again.
In this war-torn world,
we could do the same.
We could ground the bomber planes,
empty the gun cartridges,
unclench our fists, soften our jaws.
They say it can’t be done,
but don’t believe them.
In this war-torn world, we could try—
love and love and love again.

—excerpt from the poem “Love & Love & Love Again” by Rev. Sarah A. Speed |