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Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini

by the Rev. Jeckonia Okoth
I wonder what was going in the mind of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini when she arrived in New York on March 31, 1889, accompanied by six other religious sisters. Did she see herself as an outsider coming in or as an insider coming home away from home? Let us fast-forward this: suppose someone from the Congo, or Libya or Sudan came in and wanted to start a religious order; what would be the response, and what kind of people would we see in that order?

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Guest Preacher November 26, 2024

Jonathan Myrick Daniels: My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord

“I wonder where we would have been in the Selma 1965 story? Would we have been among those beaten, hosed, and jailed? Would we have been actively registering voters and been present, even living with those struggling for dignity and equality? Would we have been Jonathan Myrick Daniels, willing to confront evil and hatred at the end of a shotgun?”

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Guest Preacher August 27, 2024

The Challenge of Ministering in a Divided Nation

“I argued that to remain silent and not to act in defiance when the Apartheid regime had been taken over by the Principalities and Powers legitimatizing oppression, injustice and racism, seeing this as even Godly, was not an option for us.”

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Guest Preacher July 21, 2024

The Bravest Person You Know

“Perhaps another miracle in this story is about being brave enough to be reliant. Reliance is hard.  It’s hard to go against cultural norms which prize independence, self-sufficiency, self-determination.  It’s hard to admit that we need help an ask for it. It’s hard to risk the appearance of weakness.  It’s hard, sometimes, to believe we are worthy of help.”

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Guest Preacher June 30, 2024

Joint Guest Preachers for February 25

The Rev. Dr. Dorothy White and the Rev. Katie Ernst, preaching at our Racial Healing Eucharist to celebrate the consecration of Bishop Barbara Harris and the life of Anna Julia Haywood Cooper.

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Guest Preacher February 25, 2024

Sermon by the Rev. Cynthia Bronson Sweigert

“Many women and men say that Mary, at least as often portrayed, is much too passive. I understand this thinking because I often feel the same way. The Magnificat, the Song of Mary, is not one of those portrayals.”

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Guest Preacher January 3, 2024

Heidi J. Kim: Feast of King Kamehameha IV and Queen Emma of Hawai’i

We might want to glamorize or glorify the legacy of King Kamehameha IV and Queen Emma, even as their descendants live with the consequences of a racist form of capitalist exploitation of the natural resources that were a sacred source of life for the original inhabitants of that land. How can we hold all these stories on this feast day, appreciating how Kamehameha and Emma lived, ruled, and worshipped, while also acknowledging the cultural genocide that has impacted their people? How might we find absolution and forgiveness? How and when will we turn to a new way?

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Guest Preacher November 26, 2023

A Sermon by Jenny Koops

The sheepfold stands in contrast to the reality in which we live, where we
are told that we cannot rest, because there isn’t and never will be enough,
that we must always keep working for more and more and more. But the
sheepfold is a place of rest that God is calling us to, to lie down in green
pastures as we read in psalm 23, and taking time to rest in our physical
sacred spaces like the one we are in today, helps not only reinvigorate us
to go back out into the world to share and invite others into God’s abundance, but also to center us in God’s love so that we may hear and
know God’s voice when we are called.

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Guest Preacher April 30, 2023

Sermon Honoring Harriet Tubman

Who are you in spite of, or because of your fragility? from your weakness what are you being called to do? Are you stagnant in your comfort and ease? The work of justice does not wait for us to be perfectly healthy, well, and stable. Sometimes it simply calls us to ask questions, search for what is right, and knock on doors of possibility. The true legacy of Harriett Tubman is not what she overcame, but what she dared do in the face of all that plagued her body and attempted to squash her spirit. Fragility and discomfort are no longer acceptable excuses for complacency.

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Guest Preacher March 26, 2023

 Transformed by Worship, to Transform the World

A sermon by the Rev. Chelsea Stanton:
“…it’s up to us to decide who we want to be in the future. Do we want to be a community where only one kind of person fits? Where we uphold traditions that were invented to exclude and abuse? Or a place where everyone can feel welcome? I think it’s not a stretch to say we would all say the latter. Now we need to work to make it real. That’s how we will be holy. That’s how we take our mountaintop experiences in worship and move them into real life.”

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Guest Preacher February 22, 2023
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