St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church Albuquerque

The Rev. Simone Lilith Drinkwater preaches on the Second Sunday of Pentecost and courageously confronts the church's problematic past with "demonic possession," revealing its painful impact on marginalized individuals. She powerfully advocates for a return to Jesus' radically inclusive love and healing, urging the church to mend past harms and embrace a path of true compassion and...

The Rev. Simone Lilith Drinkwater preaches in Pentecost about a profound reflection on the nature of love, power, and self-worth, drawing a powerful analogy between healthy human relationships and the divine relationship within the Holy Trinity. She calls to reject unhealthy relational patterns and embrace a vision of love and spirituality that is truly life-giving and transformative.

The Rt. Rev. Michael Buerkel Hunn preaches on the Fest of Pentecost: True peace and safety wont come from having powerful armies or threatening each other. Instead, it comes from actually getting rid of everything that makes us fight - not just the weapons, but also the angry thoughts and ideas that lead to war. More than anything, it's about learning to genuinely Love and Care for Everyone. W...

The Rev. Christopher McLaren invites us into a sacred conversation about living authentically in a world that often misunderstands queer truth. Centered around the courageous journey of the Rev. Simone Lilith Drinkwater—who embraces her new name during the service—this sermon names the holy struggle of contending with God, the wounds we carry as beloved marks, and the sacred act of rising, waiting...

The Rev. Mike Angell preaches on Jesus' prayer that we become one.

In the first chapter of Genesis, in the moment God creates humankind in all of our gendered diversity in Gods image, what is the first thing God says to us? “Fill the earth.” The question comes, with what? With what do we fill the earth? So far, the answer has been mostly, “with us.”

On the fifth Sunday of Easter, Lee Lowery considers Jesus' call to love one another.

On Mothering Sunday, Simone considers the image of the Good Shepherd, and the divine gift of nurturing care.

The persecution complex, to me, is problematic for Christians. Don’t tell me you are persecuted when you are simply trying to defend your practice of discrimination. Don’t tell me you’re persecuted because you believe you should be free to ignore the rights and needs of the oppressed.

I don't buy that Thomas was a doubter. I think he was a mystic, a mystic like Pope Francis. Pope Francis was a voice, yes, but he also ways a way-shower. He showed us this way of Jesus time and again. I wish more Catholics, more Christians, were like Francis. 

Practicing resurrection means remembering that though cruel tyrants may hold sway from time to time over politics, they do not have to control our minds, our hope, our imaginations.

On Palm Sunday, the Rev. Simone Drinkwater preaches about power, as the world defines it and as Jesus manifests it.

On the fifth Sunday of Lent, the Rev. Lee Lowery preaches on extravagant love, and extravagant joy as practices of faith.

Lent isn’t about our ability to repent. Lent isn’t about our capacity to fix anything. Lent is about God’s wild mercy. Lent isn’t meant to teach us about our ability to apologize. Lent isn’t even meant to teach us about self-discipline. Rather this season is meant to teach us about the wildness and the wideness of God’s forgiveness. We believe in a God whose mercy defies all odds, defies all expec...

Beloved, the real power lies not in what we fear, but in what we trust, or rather, in whom we trust. Are we able to trust that God will give us the strength and courage to live through difficult and scary times? 

One of the most difficult questions I face as a priest seems like it should be one of the simplest. How do I join the church? I can give a technical answer. But the question of membership is a trickier than paperwork. Taking a page from Buddhism: true belonging is a process of vulnerability and taking refuge.

God loves us enough to honor our sovereignty.

This year it may help us to approach Lent differently, to shift our expectations...

Today we have two strange stories about glowing faces. Moses and Jesus both shine so brightly they are said to be transfigured. Jesus and Moses don’t change into different leaders with different faces and different values. Rather these are stories about human beings who suddenly are **more** visibly, more recognizably who they are.

Why love your enemies? Because practicing love, in the end costs you less than practicing hate. Hate consumes us. Hate embitters. Spending your energy practicing hate will not help you to grow as a person. Hate shrinks us. God does not want you to be smaller. You were made not for hate, but for love.

Jesus’ beatitudes name some of the very fabric of who we are meant to be, in a world too often deaf to that call. Jesus calls us to the Great Reversal.

In her first sermon as our Associate Rector, the Rev. Simone Drinkwater sits with the story of Jesus calling the disciples from their nets, to become fishers for people.

To be a spiritual person, in times of outrage, is watch patiently for the signs of hope. To be a spiritual person, in times of outrage, means never letting go of joy. To be a spiritual person, in times of outrage, means never letting the outrage win

After hearing Bishop Budde's words to the president in Washington this week, a sermon about the connection between our faith and our work for justice. If hearing Bishop Budde’s words this week gave you a new sense that faith might be a viable option for you, if hearing her name so clearly that it was because of her faith that she needed to plea with this president for mercy, you are not alone....

To confront the realities of our day, we will need resilience. Build power not panic, as immigration advocates say. Because whatever the future holds, God will be there, the Spirit will lead us. Water can still become wine.