All Saints' Episcopal Church

Rules from "on high" make me nervous. They make me question. Thankfully, though, there's already an answer here. Jesus and the Great Commandment are the answer for any question I might have for this great authority [of the 10 Commandments].

When we choose to follow God in Christ, we choose to follow God in self-giving love in Christ.

Rector Geoffrey Hoare discusses current events, church polity, parish matters, and pertinent theology. Rector's Forums are a great way to learn more about the parish, the Episcopal Church, and the Christian journey.

When I find myself like those people [in the parable] who worked all day, I think I am allowing my value and identity in this world to be governed by how I am doing in relation to others. As we know, however necessary it is for our development that we compare and contrast ourselves to others, there is a sense in which putting on Christ or living into the promises of the Gospel means finding our de...

We are to forgive. Why? Because we have been forgiven. Our debt has been paid. The sacrifice for us has been made. Our brokenness made whole. Jesus came and lived among us and then reached out His loving arms on the hard wood of the cross, that we might come within the reach of God's saving embrace. We are to forgive, as we have been forgiven.

A brief presentation about stewardship at All Saints' by canvass co-chairs Diane and David Barber and parishioner Geoff Pope.

On a day when we are celebrating the extent and variety of ministries in and of this community of faith, we are presented with scriptures about behavior... The ministries we celebrate are, at their best, ones in which we find it true that in service we are freed and in giving we receive. The ministries we celebrate today are those in which real and right relationship, --glimpses of real human conn...

Paul isn't speaking to the individual here. He is speaking to a church, the church in Rome in the first century. And he's speaking to our church here, too. These are community instructions, instructions that assume the individuals will fall short from time to time, that some will be better at parts of the list than others.

The youth from the J2A class, part of the Journey to Adulthood youth formation program, report back to the parish about their experiences on their pilgrimage to Greece this summer.

"Who do you say that I am?" How do you answer that question?

When someone else's humanity touches our humanity, we are moved to respond.

Today we say welcome to our candidates for baptism. Welcome to the body of Christ. Welcome to the Church, a flawed place, with flawed people where amazing things can happen. Welcome to a relationship with God for whom problems are neither too trivial nor too big.

What we have here is an outline of the life of Christ and, by extension, an outline for the life in Christ, the life of the Christian. He took, he blessed, he broke, he gave.

"I AM CONVINCED, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." It is my prayer that God convinces you, too.

Paul's concerned that we know that doesn't mean we get to do whatever we want without some concern for the other, without some vision that holds everybody together, where the vision is what dominates, and not one group or another group seeking power. Morality means being concerned for the other.

We are created in the image of a great creator, one who plants and tends and love us into being. In that image, we are called to do the same.

Hear what Jesus says to his followers: "Take my yokeand learn from me." In fact the most efficient way to teach an animal to plow is to harness them to one who already knows how. Whether in a more gentle horse collar or the more primitive ox yoke the reality is that the ignorant beginner is yoked to one with whom to share the weight at the very least. And it doesn't take much more to realize that...

20th annual Integrity Eucharist, kicking off Gay Pride Weekend in Atlanta. Guest preacher: The Rev'd Winnie Varghese, Episcopal chaplain at Columbia University in NYC.

Foundations of faith

Jeremiah 20:7-13, Romans 6:1b-11, Matthew 10:24-39

If we expect God to act in the world, we have to be the agents of change. By sharing ourselves and our faith with others, we can bring healing and inch the world ever closer to the Kingdom of Heaven.

In our Gospel today, we are introduced to a woman who has been suffering for years, well over a decade, with some sort of bleeding disease, probably a menstrual hemorrhage. She was, like so many of our most compelling biblical characters, an outcast. And, like so many of our most compelling biblical characters, she possesses a courage that far surpasses her brief mention in our Scriptures. Faith,...

The only real foundation on which we can and should build is not our beliefs about God or about ourselves, but on the reality of the living God who is revealed most fully in Jesus' life and teaching and whom we sometimes talk of as the Holy Spirit.

Sermon, Second Sunday After Pentecost

Lest this attention to evangelism becomes just one more 'ought' in our lives, something with all the appeal of one of those diagnostic medical procedures we are all supposed to have from time to time, or another ethical piety, --something that is meant to be good for us, but that we do not really want to do, let me say something about what evangelism is not and something about what it is and can b...