All Saints Church Pasadena Podcast

" In a world obsessed with Anti-Black violence, Black suffering, and Black Death, The Spirit centers Black Joy, Pouring out herself on bodies of African descent who are present, Black Bodies dancing and hoping, and laughing, and speaking, and hearing, and experiencing, the beauty and wonder of God, what would it do to our collectively psyche, if we knew what The Spirit knew, that Black People dese...

"And then there is the river. I am convinced that river is what I touched that night at that Wall. It is the river of pain and love. It is the river of all the children's cries. It is the river of the arms that ache to hug just one more time. It is the river of the lives that should have been. It is the river flowing over a way that with tears has been watered. It is the river through which we hav...

Sermon by Gabriel Dubransky from worship at 9:00 a.m. on Youth Sunday, May 22, 2022 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Psalm 67 and John 5:1-9. Watch Gabriel's sermon on YouTube . Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AllSaintsPasadena/ . Check out our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/allsaintspasadena1/videos . Subscribe...

Sermon by Charis Graham from worship at 9:00 a.m. on Youth Sunday, May 22, 2022 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Psalm 67 and John 5:1-9. Watch Charis's sermon on YouTube . Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AllSaintsPasadena/ . Check out our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/allsaintspasadena1/videos . Subscribe, lik...

"Many of us have been shaped to believe that our mistakes make us disappointing … or incompetent ... or even bad people….But when we laugh at our mistakes … or "different choices" … the laughter opens us up not only to forgiving ourselves, to loving ourselves … but to learning … and growing. I was thinking about this last fall when a friend of mine asked me to be on his podcast and talk about my b...

"My first truth that sets my heart on fire this morning is Cancer sucks. And my second truth that set my heart on fire this morning is: Abortion is healthcare. And healthcare is a human right. And then there is the third truth. And this is not a truth that I say with anger. It sets my heart on fire not with anger but with hope. It sets my heart on fire not with rage but with love. And that truth i...

"When the divine beauty within us, yearning to shape the pieces of our lives into wholes of positive meaning, collaborates with the Divine Lover and the Artist Extraordinaire, our beauty unfolds and we create the beauty of beloved community wherever we go." Sermon by Sally Howard from worship at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, May 1, 2022 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Psalm 30, Revelation 5:11-1...

Sermon by Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori from worship at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, April 24, 2022 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Acts 5:27-32, Psalm 150, Revelation 1:4-8 and John 20:19-31. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AllSaintsPasadena/ . Check out our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/u...

"This morning, we have gathered and sung glorious songs proclaiming the day of resurrection … told the story of the women coming to the empty tomb … and I know I am expected – well, maybe not as much here at All Saints, but still on some level expected to stand here in this pulpit and preach a sermon about the resurrection with all the conviction of a true believer that nearly 2,000 years ago this...

" Jesus said, "I tell you, if they were to keep silent, the very stones would shout out." And then in my sanctified imagination, I believe Jesus turned to the crowd and sang, two thousand years before it hit the charts. 'Shout, shout, let it all out These are the things I can do without Come on, I'm talking to you, come on' We wave palms today not because they make dandy decorations but because we...

Sermon by Mark Chase from worship at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, April 3, 2022 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Isaiah 43:16-21, Philippians 3:4b-14 and John 12:1-8. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read the text of the sermon here . Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AllSaintsPasadena/ . Check out our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube...

" We get to be the generation that says we are ready to claim the Gospel mission of radical reconciliation. We get to be the generation that has the courage to trust that we can stop and just take the time … whatever time is needed … to let love do its long, slow work of transforming fear and loneliness into healing and wholeness.  We get to be the generation that says together: "We are no longer...

" We are hanging onto this world like it is something we like.  We are hanging onto this world like it was something we need. We are hanging onto this world like we have no other choice.  And it's not that we have run out of alternatives, it's just that we have been beaten into a poverty of imagination. A poverty of faith. A poverty of the power of Once Upon a Time. And so, Jesus gets us back on t...

" Voices like Verna's […] remind us about our history in order to empower us for our future: voices that comfort us in our affliction and afflict us in our comfort … voices that call us to continue to ask of ourselves and each other: "What would it mean to actually follow Jesus?" as we work together to make the dream come true. " Sermon by Susan Russell from worship at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, March...

" So, some temptations may be so culturally conditioned that they need to be named as not temptations to something bad at all.  Others truly are harmful to ourselves and others … and .. they are still not referenda on who we are and our worthiness and lovability. They are signs of a deeper hunger that can be sated, a deeper bondage from which we can be free.  And our task – together … always toget...

" This gift of the epiphany that there is a disjuncture between our outward and inward selves that doesn't have to be this way, and the witness of the courage it takes not only to name but claim our truest identity, to love that truest identity, fully to live into that truest identity is part of the deep gift those among us who are transgender have for the rest of this body. Why those among us who...

" When you experience this divine love coming through you, the power of that love surrounds you like a shield, as if you are in a bubble of light and nothing and no one can harm you. " Sermon by Alfredo Feregrino from worship at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, February 20, 2022 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Genesis 43:3-11, 15 and Luke 6:27-38. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read the text of the...

" Jesus doesn't mind our absence of capacity, coming into contact with his abundance of compassion. That's the hope of this table, we get to come to this table, and bring ALL OF WHO WE ARE, and not just the best of who we are, because I don't know about you, but for some of us it's been a long long long time, since we've seen the best of who we are. " Sermon by Mark Chase from worship at 11:30 a.m...

"The God that we fear is a God we have created, not the God who created us." Sermon by Sally Howard from worship at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, February 6, 2022 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Isaiah 6:1-9, Psalm 138 and Luke 5:1-11. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read the text of the sermon here . Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AllS...

"We are wounded. We are offended. We don't get what we want … what we need … what we feel we deserve. And we get angry. And that anger is embodied. It's natural. … We carry it in our bodies. Can you feel it in yours?" Sermon by Mike Kinman from worship at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, January 30, 2022 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Jeremiah 1:4-10 and Luke 4:21-30. Watch the sermon on YouTube ....

Sermon by Alfredo Feregrino from worship at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, January 23, 2022 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: I Corinthians 12:12-31a and Luke 4:14-21. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Read the text of the sermon . Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AllSaintsPasadena/ . Donate to support the mission and ministries of All Saints...

Sermon by Dr. Wil Gafney from worship at 11:30 a.m. on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Sunday, January 16, 2022 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: Genesis 37:19–20, Psalm 73:1–6, 8–9, 12–13, 17–18, Hebrews 11:1–3, 23–31 and Luke 24:13–24. Watch the sermon on YouTube . Follow All Saints Church on Twitter @ASCpas. Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AllSaintsPasadena/ . Donate to sup...

"The story of Epiphany is not a conversion story… This is a story of different cultures and faith traditions honoring each other by offering the best of what they have to the other and accepting it with grace and humility. The story does not seek to deny or resolve any of the complexity of a multicultural, multifaith world.  To impose a false sense of security through certainty and dominance.  The...

A sermon tribute to the work and witness of Archbishop Desmond Tutu. "This family has no outsiders. Everyone is an insider. All are to be held in the incredible embrace of the love that won't let us go." Sermon by Susan Russell from worship at 11:30 a.m. on Sunday, January 2, 2022 at All Saints Church, Pasadena. Readings: A Reading from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Jeremiah 31:7-14 and Matthew 2:1-12....

"We are living in the backlash. And the message of all these backlashes is clear – be afraid. Shut your mouth. Don't name the addictions. Don't speak the truths that liberate. Certainly, don't talk about leading a revolution. Because if you do, we will bring the hurt for you … and we know you are already hurting plenty already. It is an effective strategy. It has been used to keep oppression in pl...