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
There is no Cure for Being Human
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
The Importance of Context
There is no shortage of darkness in the news: natural disasters, the pandemic, crime, homelessness. In many ways, this is nothing new. There are many dark things in the Bible – the flood, the plagues of Egypt, the suffering and death of Christ upon the Cross. But at Christmastime, we are surrounded by expressions of
Have a Heart
February 9, 2020, The Rev. Ruth Anne Garcia preaching
