Harrowing Of Hell

Category: Incarnation

A Place to Land our Longing

Sermon | May 10, 2026

To watch the sermon click here. There was a moment in the history of this city that reflects something true about the human soul… and maybe even gives us some insight into how to respond to the economic and political turmoil that spins around Seattle today. It was the late 1980s. Boeing had just laid

The Lord is in this Place

Sermon | July 23, 2023

To watch the sermon click here. How does God bring heaven to earth, and earth to heaven? In our reading from Genesis this morning, we have the famous story of Jacob’s ladder. The context: Isaac and Rebekah have two sons: Esau the elder twin, has been a good kid, but Jacob is a bad boy

The Visitation, the Magnificat

Sermon | December 19, 2021

Good morning. My name is Susan Pitchford, and I am Epiphany’s “Off-site Anchorite.” It’s a deliberately absurd title, but essentially I’m here to support the spiritual formation of members of the parish. If you’d like to know more, let’s talk. Advent is the time when we’re supposed to be waiting in quiet expectation, right? I

Feast of the Virgin Mary

Sermon | August 15, 2021

I’ve had Mary on my mind recently. I’ve been reading a book by Hans Urs von Balthazar titled Prayer. He was a Swiss theologian, who trained as a Jesuit priest, but left the order to be a more active in the world, and yet, also continuing to be a person who lived a life of

The Body as New Authority

Sermon | October 18, 2020

Good morning Epiphany. We are back to a didactic sermon, so, take out your pencils, and your Bibles because we are going to dance across scripture today. Now here is why: You and I are part of a movement, and a movement requires clear understanding of where we are going and why we are going