Elisha's Outburst - Rev. Sam Teitel - Sunday, September 26, 20211

In this service we are going to be talking about one of the strangest and hardest passages in the Hebrew Bible: the prophet Elisha’s interaction with a group of rowdy teenagers and a pack of bears. We will be asking the question, what can we learn about the times we live in from a biblical prophet who has an angry outburst?

Rev. Sam Teitel is a Unitarian Universalist minister, poet, and punk rocker. He serves as the minister of The Church of the River in Memphis, Tennessee. Sam has previously served on the congregational staffs of Unitarian Universalist churches in Boston and Wayland, Massachusetts. Sam holds a Masters of Divinity and a Masters of Arts from Andover Newton Theological School. In 2016 he was the recipient of the H Otheman Smith Community Congregational Preaching Award and in he was the recipient of the grand prize at the Preachers Fight Club storytelling event. In his spare time, he loves checking out new restaurants and record stores in Memphis with his wife, Sandra, their son, Gideon, and their Jack Russell Terrier, Tommy.

We are a welcoming congregation and invite you to join us online for services this Sunday at 11:00 am.  Unfortunately, we are unable to publish the link to the service.  You may contact Sandra Moss at [email protected] to have the link sent to you.  Please request link before Sunday.