The Particular Reveals the Universal Love of God

Sermon | June 14, 2026

To watch the sermon click here. You can imagine how complicated it is for me to stand before you, Epiphany, a community where every single person is welcome, no matter who they are, where they come from or what they believe; and together hear Jesus instructing his apostles: “Go nowhere among the Gentiles, and enter

A Place of Stability

Sermon | January 25, 2026

To watch the sermon click here. Each year, when we gather for our annual meeting it is a chance to pause. To breathe. To look back with gratitude at what has happened here. And, then, to look forward with clarity about who we are, who we are becoming, and why it matters. This moment is

Christianity at the Center

Sermon | January 18, 2026

To watch the sermon click here. Have you ever found yourself in one of those conversations, maybe at a dinner party, maybe with a colleague, maybe with a family member, or a dude on a plane… where they are a little hostile toward Christianity? They say something like, “Christianity is so violent. Look at the

When Heaven Touches Earth

Sermon | November 30, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. One of my best friends in seminary was a guy named Patrick who grew up in small town Mississippi. Patrick is loud, charismatic, and always funny, especially when telling stories about his childhood. He had lots of good stories, but the best ones were about his grandmother. I don’t

Remembering is why Christ is King

Sermon | November 23, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. The calendar we Christians follow is not random. It begins with the longing of Advent, that season of holy desire for the world at its best. Then Christmas, incarnation, God alive in the world. Epiphany follows, it is the dark season lit by Christ’s light, guiding our actions in

Freedom and the Frictionless Society

Sermon | September 14, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. When I was in college, I spent two years tutoring prisoners in Cell Block One at Cook County Correctional Facility on the south side of Chicago. Once a week I’d make my way into that ominous, imposing building. Every time the guards treated me as if I were new,

Truth in a Post-Truth World

Sermon | June 8, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. I was watching the news the other day and I heard something that might startle you… Out of the mouth of a national leader I heard something I quickly perceived, based on a smattering of history, a little bit of science, and some common sense… I heard a bald-faced

Identity and the Reversals of Life

Sermon | April 13, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. Well, here we go: the church’s annual soul-churning, week-long emotional roller coaster ride. It begins today, a day of ironies and paradoxes, of parallels and reversals. Today we begin on a high note. I find it thrilling to enter into the scene in which Jesus rides triumphantly into Jerusalem,

Look Around

Sermon | January 6, 2025

To watch the sermon click here. One year ago, I visited Seattle for the first time since moving to New England several years prior. On that same visit, I preached from this pulpit for the first time in nearly seven years. It was a whirlwind of a weekend. But two things really stand out

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