Sermons

By Choosing God’s Love, We Are A Family: An Easter Vigil Sermon

The Holy Women teach us how to speak the joyful truth in love even when we feel afraid. We must ensure that women on the margins of dominant culture, who have survived the horrors of coloniality, can speak joyful truth in love, especially in the face of man-babies who are terrified of love and truth. Marginalized women have been proclaiming the joyful and life-giving Gospel truth for centuries.

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The Rev. Dr. Craig Lemming April 4, 2026

A Good Friday Sermon

Jesus speaks the words that echo across history: “It is finished.” Not “I am finished.” Not “This is the end.” But “It is finished”—the work of love, the work of reconciliation, the work of bearing the world’s brokenness.

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Guest Preacher April 3, 2026

Love One Another

Teachers did not wash the feet of their followers. Jesus challenges a system that says some people are less than others. The Roman system required free men to demonstrate their superiority through speech and action. In the act of washing his disciples’ feet, Jesus very deliberately and profoundly transgresses gender expectations.

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Guest Preacher April 2, 2026

Jesus and Harriet: Called and Unlikely Liberators

“It’s hard to believe resurrection/freedom can happen when folx have been walking dead for so long…hungry for so long…low for so long. It is hard to believe that wins can happen for them when they have been told for so long that they were losing…losers…a lost cause. After white supremacy and patriarchy tells us we are nothing for so long, it is understandable that we come to underestimate others and ourselves, assuming that we’re just not ‘fill-in-the-blank’ enough to do the thing that needs to be done – that we long for and that the world needs.”

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Guest Preacher March 22, 2026

What Would Dorothy Do?

“How often do you and I experience testimonies – stories of God – that push against our understanding of how God has been revealed to us through scripture or through our own experience? How do we handle these conflicting narratives?”

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Guest Preacher March 15, 2026

Brigid of Kildare

“St. Brigid has been called the Lady of the Threshold. This image of threshold has also been used to represent navigating life’s transitions, birth, new careers, etc. An Episcopal priest named Robert Jennings wrote that transitions could also mean a test of character, a change of time, daily occasions when we transition from talking to listening, from being unaware to fully aware. In one way or another we are all on thresholds.”

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Guest Preacher March 8, 2026

Miriam, The First Prophetess

“Miriam as big sister acts almost like Shekinah, the Hebrew word for the feminine in-dwelling of God, or the Holy Spirit. She watches over Moses as an infant, through and out of Egypt, and into the desert.”

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Marjorie Grevious March 1, 2026

Sermon for the Transfiguration

“Our hope is not in our government to do the right thing. Our hope is in Jesus and in the assurance that in the end God’s love wins. This means we are still called to stand with our neighbors.”

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The Rev. Judy DesHarnais February 15, 2026

A Sermon for Black History Month

“Ask yourself: What is my gift, knowledge, access, opportunity, privilege, connections, influence, or resources that I can lend to the cause of goodness, decency, and justice? Who can I call, boycott, or support? Where can I donate my time, talent, and money?”

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Marjorie Grevious February 1, 2026

Jesus is crying on Nicollet Avenue … and here: “Follow me”

At the heart of our baptismal vows is this same call from Jesus to each of us.

“Follow me” Jesus says.

“Stop being who you were supposed to be … and start being who you are meant to be.”

And what is that? Glad you asked.

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Guest Preacher January 25, 2026

Vulnerable People

Our baptismal promises call us to “persevere in resisting evil”, to “seek and serve Christ in all persons loving our neighbors as ourselves”, and to “strive for justice and peace, and respect the dignity of every human being.” This is our calling, in short, as those who were brought to the waters of baptism, vulnerable, often unable to speak for ourselves, by a community of love and care, we are sent out to be a people who care for the vulnerable. Our calling in baptism begins in community and is enacted in community—never alone.

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Rev. Jered Weber-Johnson January 11, 2026

Looking Away from Empire

“Look with awe at the glowing center where those with access gather. Look on the bright armor and blazing torches of battalions and be afraid.” After all, fear is the currency of empires, and so it must hold our gaze and teach us what we must fear. But the Christmas story is different. It pulls our focus.

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Rev. Jered Weber-Johnson December 24, 2025

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