Harrowing Of Hell

Category: Hope & Resurrection

Christmas Eve: Courage and Hope

Sermon | December 24, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. Good evening. Merry Christmas. I’m glad to see you tonight. I was hoping you would be here. And now that I’ve seen you and we are together, my hope has moved, relocated from this space to out there, somewhere in front of me, in front of us…which is where

The House of God

Sermon | December 24, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. When I was a graduate student, I lived in an apartment about a mile north of the UW. It was in a large, ramshackle old house that was bulldozed years ago and replaced by a civilized apartment building. One morning, as I was sitting in bed reading for my

Joy to the World

Sermon | December 17, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. Good Morning. We are in the 3rd week of Advent. We have lit the pink candle…and we are full of joy, Right? It is Gaudete Sunday. Why do we call it Gaudete? Well, because we are Episcopalians and we like words like undercroft and ciborium. Actually, Gaudete is the

May Your Thanksgiving be Full of Gratitude

Sermon | November 23, 2023

Good Morning and Happy Thanksgiving! I love Thanksgiving. It is probably my favorite secular holiday. Perhaps you too have memories of family Thanksgivings, getting together with the cousins and running around grandma and grandpa’s farm. Those are my early memories. I also remember spending a Thanksgiving during my college years with my then boyfriend cooking

The Tithe

Sermon | November 19, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. What is the Kingdom of heaven like? That is the question I posed last Sunday. I then suggested that the Kingdom of heaven has two plotlines running simultaneously: one that is told from your or my particular context at any given moment in time; and the second is the

Habits of Love

Sermon | November 5, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. At Epiphany, we talk a lot about being in the habit of going to church. When it comes to worship, some of us have a habit of sitting in the same pew or joining online from our favorite room. Even our liturgy echoes with incandescent habit: we speak and

The Secret to Loving Yourself

Sermon | October 29, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. Today, our Gospel reading is likely very familiar. Jesus is asked what is the greatest commandment by a lawyer. For those of you in the Read the Bible in a year program, I know that after our readings in Exodus, Leviticus, and now Numbers many of you would love

Guardians of Hope

Sermon | April 9, 2023

Good morning. HAPPY EASTER! I’m so glad to see you today. There is a sense that we’re back to normal, if that’s really possible in a world where COVID is endemic. In fact, I know some of you can’t be here today because you have COVID. I’m glad you’re joining us online. I hope you’re