Who Will Account for You?

Sermon | September 18, 2022

When I was growing up, my dad had this ritual that he would make my sister and me say every time he drove us to school. Right before we got out of the car he would say, “Okay now, what’s your Formula for Success?” My sister and I would recite it. This is what we

The Joy of Missing Out

Sermon | September 4, 2022

Epiphany, it has been a real gift to share these summer Sundays with you. When I returned here in July, I walked into the Christie House and saw Diane Carlisle working. She looked up from what she was doing and said simply, “Welcome home.” She wasn’t just being nice. What I have experienced of you

Table Talk

Sermon | August 28, 2022

Have you ever noticed how often in the Gospels Jesus takes “the stuff” of ordinary life and reframes it, reimagines it — so that somehow the mundane has cosmic meaning; the everyday reflects the eternal? A woman is looking for a coin that she has lost, and she will not rest until she finds it.

For the Rest of Time

Sermon | June 26, 2022

She was sure that he was the man for her. After six years of dating, she knew down to her bones that he was right, that they were good together. But each time she would hint around the marriage question, each time the “m-word” came up, she received the same answer: “I’m just not sure

Living the Resurrection Life

Sermon | May 1, 2022

In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. My name is Diane Carlisle and I am the Head Verger here at Epiphany. Epiphany has been Terry’s and my spiritual home for almost 40 years. Two weeks ago, in this very space, we celebrated the resurrection of our Lord Jesus

The Unstoppable Hope Plays Out

Sermon | April 24, 2022

Happy Eastertide. I hope you had a meaningful Holy Week and a joyful Easter. I preached Easter morning about the “what” and the “who” of Christianity. I built this sermon on the theme of unstoppable hope; about how hope is something we seek through expectations, and dreams, and optimism, and I pointed out that it

The Unstoppable Hope of Jesus

Sermon | April 17, 2022

Happy Easter! I am so glad to see you. I am so happy to be celebrating this day of Resurrection with you. Happy Resurrection day! It is good for my soul to be with you. I hope it is good day for yours as well. Hope is the word I want you to carry away

A Glimpse of Glory

Sermon | February 27, 2022

One of the many reasons I love living where we do is that we’re surrounded by mountains. When I first arrived in Seattle, on one particularly bright September day, I ran into someone who said, “Oh look! We’re having a four-mountain day.” She was right. It was really awesome to see the Cascades to the

Luke’s Beatitudes

Sermon | February 13, 2022

Good morning. My name is Susan Pitchford, and I am Epiphany’s “Off-site Anchorite,” so I work on supporting adult faith formation. I’m also a professed Third Order Franciscan; that is, I’m a member of a religious order founded by St. Francis of Assisi in the 13th c. Franciscan spirituality focuses on simplicity of life, rejection

Category: Hope & Resurrection