St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church Albuquerque

Together we can keep going. When the going gets really tough. Together we can live together. Think more clearly. Feel more deeply. Love more extravagantly. Live more fully. Because we are planted in deeper ground.

This Epiphany season, take permission to lessen the busyness. If you’re holding on to anger or bitterness, let that relax as well. Loosen the knots between your shoulders. Know you can do so and strengthen your resolve at the same time.  Trust God is out there, working beyond our boundaries, beyond our grudges, beyond our sense of rightness or wrongness. God is out there, beyond our political orth...

On the first Sunday after Christmas, the Rev. Lee Lowery preaches about the meaning of the Word Made Flesh.

You were built to long for miracles. We are created to long for more than is possible. Let your heart yearn for God to be born in ways that astound, in ways that push you beyond what is comfortable. Only there, only when we are out beyond our usual borders, can we encounter the One who can save us.

Before Christmas, I think we need to spend some time with Mary, the real Mary, because she helps us understand what it means to be a person of faith in a dark time.

On the third Sunday of Advent, a sermon from our Preacher in Residence about John the Baptist, Rejoicing, and God's coming into the word.

On the second Sunday of Advent, a sermon about John the Baptist and deep subversive joy. What if, in these anxious days, what we really need to repent is the meagerness of our hope? 

The current moment makes talking about hope all the more challenging. Which is why Advent begins where it does. Today we encounter Jesus talking about the end of the world. Jesus begins with ominous signs in the heavens, the rushing of the seas, the distress of the people. Jesus begins where all hope for change begins, with disruption.

On the last Sunday of the Church year, the Rev. Lee Lowery ponders what it means that Christ comes to reign.

Yes, are living through a time of great upheaval, but don’t lose the horizon. Don’t forget that Christians are a people of hope, and often joy is our best protest. Don’t forget to imagine ways of surviving, and thriving, and defending our neighbors right to survive and thrive.

On the Sunday after the election, the Rev. Mike Angell preaches: We will face what is to come with wild and foolish grace. We will pray that God will grant us wisdom and courage. If you need a minute to grieve. That’s okay. But also know, as Howard Thurman told us, ours is a faith that teaches us how to survive. We will survive. And we will become the love-spreading difference-makers our world aga...

On All Saints Day, two days before the election, the rector preaches: The saints have a way of reminding us that our moment is just that, our moment. There have been moments like this before. There have been moments when hate has held sway over a large portion of the population. There have been times when violence and threats of violence were all around. The saints helped us survive. The saints he...

Reflecting on his recent heart attack, the Rev. Lee Lowery shares the story of a friend who said, "God's not done with you yet," and shares he believes God's not done with anybody in here yet. Everybody in here has a ministry and a mission. Everybody in here can serve. Everybody in here can love their neighbor.

“What we need, then, rather desperately, are examples of communities operating under another kind of power, a power that emerges from the bottom up and which is linked to an abiding sense of friendship to the most vulnerable and service to a larger vision.”

Does Jesus ask all of us to give up all of our wealth?

Paul Hanneman preaches on the feast of St. Francis and says, in part, "Jesus is bidding us look beyond the borders of our fields, whatever they might be, but on the borders of our lands and our homes and our bank accounts and investments."

Today we hear the story of Michael defeating the dragon. Today we tell ourselves again that the angels are stronger than the demons, that love is more powerful than hate.

A sermon on the "capable wife," or as Rachel Held Evans called her "The Woman of Valor," and the importance of understanding true greatness...

How do we think about the cross? The Rev. Susan Allison-Hatch makes a case to "love God, love your neighbor, and let the chips fall where they may."

“If our faith isn’t about bringing hope to those who have been left out, what good is it? If our religion doesn’t teach us to listen to, and stand with, the women who persistently cry for justice, how can we call it Christian? If our faith isn’t about bringing liberation, for all God’s people, what are we even doing?” 

What if we learned to recognize and cultivate in ourselves and in our neighbors what is true, and loving, and good? Are we mature enough to imagine that kind of faith?

I'm with Solomon this morning. I think no one building, no one experience, no one scripture, no one community can ever fully capture God with Solomon. I simply pray that this building, this community, can point in a Godward direction with Solomon. I hope we can point to a God we will never fully capture with Solomon. I hope we will point to a God who is always bigger than our church. 

The unfair, the unjust, the deplorable, the grotesque seem to be a part of the human condition. Could Jesus' metaphor about eating flesh be a way of addressing the most difficult parts of our life?

What value defines Christians? In a sermon covering Jonathan Myrick Daniels, a martyred seminarian during the era for Civil Rights, an argument that our central teaching is all about compassion.

When we gather for Eucharist, we propose the same world Jesus proposed, a world where all are welcome at the table. All have a place. All are fed.