Harrowing Of Hell

There is no Cure for Being Human

To watch the sermon click here. In many ways, we have been trained to think like attorneys. Who’s guilty and who’s innocent? Who is lying? Who has the authority to make decisions? Who is right and who is wrong? A courtroom posture can feel like moral seriousness, but it can also lead us to a

Mystery, not Magic: A Super Bowl Sermon

To watch the sermon click here. Two Sundays ago, and I don’t want to be judgy about this, but two Sundays ago, some of you skipped Evensong to stay home and watch the Seattle Seahawks play the Los Angeles Rams. I’m not sure who you are, because I wasn’t here, but I do know that

Light Returning: God With Us in the Dark

To watch the sermon click here. Last summer, my family drove down to Mt St Helens to hike the Ape Caves. The Ape Caves include one of the longest lava tubes in North America clocking in at 2.5 miles long. To hike through this cave, you have to bring several sources of light as well

Darkness and Light

To watch the sermon click here. “In Him was life, and the life was the light of all people. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” The gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke might be called the journalistic gospels: what happened, to whom, why, and with what consequences?

Let Christ’s Light Shine

To watch the sermon click here. Merry Christmas! I love to say “Merry Christmas” throughout the twelve days of Christmas. At home, we continue to practice our family tradition of decorating our tree on Christmas Eve and taking it down on Epiphany. And, although we’ve not embraced the practice of giving a gift on each

Let Jesus IN

In my family’s home, we have this game we play. It’s a spinoff of Hide and Go Seek, we call it Hide and Go Scare. I LOVE it. I love being scared. I love scary movies, scary books. Around our home, I even love scaring my husband Darius and our daughter Vivian. Sometimes I’ll hear

The Duruflé Requiem–A Study in Light

Tonight, we celebrate All Souls. It is the service where we remember those who have died. The service is set within the framework of Maurice Duruflé’s requiem mass. Duruflé, a French composer, wrote this mass in response to a commission offered in 1941 by the Vinci regime in France for the composition of a symphonic