Life Together

William reflects on John 1's theological significance in light of Christmas.

Drew meditates on finding our identity in Christ and others in his sermon for the third week of Advent.

On the second Sunday of Advent, John reflects on God's relationship to time and how his time breaks into ours.

On the first Sunday of Advent, Joe reminds us that Advent is a time of anticipation, penitence, pondering the intersections of life, death, faith, and hope.

On Christ the King Sunday, Kyler preaches on the faces of Christ as the mild king and the stern king. 

Ellendale preaches on the parable of the talents and the relationship between God's gifts and responsibility.

Abbie discusses the parable of the wise and foolish bridesmaids and how God calls us to wise and cheerful stewardship.

On All Saints Day, Chuck preaches on sainthood and the communion of saints.

David looks back at the book of Haggai, where misplaced priorities divided the people from God, and forward to the 2020 stewardship campaign.

Just prior to the 2020 Presidential Election, John Hare asks which things are Caesar's? What does proper patriotism look like? He argues that our placement in a community is providential and shapes our obligations within it.

Paul challenges deriving one's value and self-acceptance from success rather than the unconditional value and acceptance of God, even in the face of (apparently) intractable problems.

Joe Rose tells the story of rescuing donkeys at Trinity Retreat Center and connects it with the need to renew our relationship with God in our stewardship of creation.

Michele preaches about the extravagant grace and compassion of God in the story of Jonah and the parable of the generous landowner (in Matt 20). She focuses on the compassion of God in community, suffering, diversity, and all creation.

Ellendale preaches on conflict, reconciliation, and forgiveness from Matthew 18.

Shancia, preaching on Christ's discussion of church discipline in Matthew 18, calls out historical failures in the Episcopal Church to love others as ourselves, especially in the sin of racism.