Sermons

Imagine A Place Where All Are Welcome

Jesus’ answer points to the Sadducees’ lack of imagination, what it could mean to live in a world unafraid of death. What would that world look like? Can you imagine it? Jesus isn’t telling us that such a world wouldn’t have marriage. He’s telling us that such a world would not have systems that keep people stuck, trapped, or captive. Such a world would allow us to imagine who we truly are, to become even more fully who God created us to be, without fear or shame.

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Rev. Jered Weber-Johnson November 9, 2025

Feed The People

These beatitudes from today’s gospel in Luke are more real, tangible and down to earth as they focus on real life issues of being poor, hungry, or deeply saddened by life. It is interesting that we never make beautiful posters, carvings or artwork out of the corresponding Woes, or what some call curses, found in Luke which come right after the beautiful often-quoted Blesseds.

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Marjorie Grevious November 2, 2025

A Sermon for the Racial Healing Eucharist Celebrating Samuel Joseph Schereshewsky

the Rev. Phillip Romine

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Guest Preacher October 26, 2025

Healing the Wounds of Idolatry: Cultivating A Love Ethic with the Lowly of Heart

“To turn away from worshipping the death-dealing idol of the Second Amendment and its anti-liturgies of gun violence requires a complete re-evaluation of our values. To turn away from cracked cisterns that hold no water, and to turn back to God, the fountain of living water, requires a complete change of heart. “

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The Rev. Craig Lemming August 31, 2025

Be Comforted, Saturated, and Strengthened in God’s Eternal Diversity

“What languages and cultures saturate your daily life? Who made your shoes? Who picked your coffee beans? What are the untold origins of the music you love? Racist, xenophobic, Christian Nationalism will fail. God loves diversity.”

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The Rev. Craig Lemming June 8, 2025

Recognizing Christ: St. Monica’s Prayer

“The sort of acknowledgment of Jesus Christ for which Monica prayed for her son speaks directly to the situation in which we find ourselves today, on this fifth anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, and that acknowledging Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord in this particular way is something that we need, rather desperately in fact, in our world today.”

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Mark McInroy May 25, 2025

In the Risen Christ Our Own Bodies Become Bridges Between Us and Them

“The more we try to make exclusive distinctions between us and them, the more God makes differing bodies bridges between them and us. Holy Baptism and Holy Communion are the sacramental sites of God’s bridge-building in our very bodies.”

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The Rev. Craig Lemming May 18, 2025

Resurrection Dancing

“In the garden that morning, Mary Magdalen, alone, eyes full of tears, thought she met the gardener, only to be surprised into joy when she recognized it was Jesus. I imagine she caught him in an embrace, that they twirled in amongst the flowers, to the songs of the early birds and the rhythms of the insects buzzing. And Jesus told her, do not hold onto me. This was a dance of abandon, a body resurrected and a whole world went free, unrestrained, unafraid, unabashedly itself as it was meant to be.”

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Rev. Jered Weber-Johnson April 20, 2025

We’re Coming Out: Filled with Christ’s Spirit We Refuse Empire’s Erasures

“This Great Vigil of Easter removes Empire’s fears, erasures, and stone-cold-heartedness and replaces God’s holy, loving, and liberating spirit within our hearts of flesh. Christ’s love fills us so fully that we too come out of Empire’s tombs.”

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The Rev. Craig Lemming April 19, 2025

Return and Rejoice: Be Reconciled to God, Neighbor, and Self in Love

Rejoice, Mother Church: and come together all of you that love her: sing with joy, you that have been in sorrow: that you may exult, and be filled from the breasts of God’s consolation. Amen.
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The Rev. Craig Lemming March 31, 2025

Saint Katharine Drexel

“Saint Katharine is considered blessed because she chose to look beyond what was, to bang the drum for parity and equality, to continually walk toward the need and to act on her belief that God values and loves everyone without ceasing.”

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Guest Preacher March 23, 2025

This Is How You Stand

“The image of Ieshia Evans captured the imagination of so many, because of the way it juxtaposed a courageous vulnerability with a world bound in systems of death and destruction. Evans’s galvanizing witness in that moment showed us a more human way to be in the face of great suffering and evil. “

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Rev. Jered Weber-Johnson March 16, 2025

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