Archive of Sermons Preached at Saint Mark's

Sermon for Christmas 1

Christmas Came Into the Neighborhood

Sermon for Christmas Eve

Children's Message for Christmas Eve

More Than one Place at a Time

The Mess Is the Place Where God Is Born

Guest Sermon for Advent 3, 2025

Guest Sermon for Advent 2, 2025

The Grace of Advent Vilgilance

Ways to Gratitude (Sermon for Thanksgiving Day)

The End is Where We Start From

Character Matters

Be a Child of the Resurrection

Earthrise

The Imaginative Work of Saints

Ravenous Hunger for a Ravishing God

What Winning Looks Like

Jesus the Border Walker

Guest Sermon for Stewardship Season (Pentecost 17, 2025)

Sermon for a Diaconal Ordination on the Feast of St. Francis

We Do What We Want To Do

Breaking the Spell of Mammon

Finders Keepers

It’s Easy to Miss God at the Turn of a Civilization

Eating and Drinking with God

Magnifying God in Troubled Times

Thy Gold To Refine

A Better Country

Rich For God

Jesus, Teach Us To Pray

No More False Choices

Guest Sermon for Pentecost 5, 2025

The Joys and Sorrows of the American Experiment

Why Would Anyone Choose This Life?

Judgement on the Royal Consciousness and the Politics of Hope and Mercy

Sermon for Juneteenth, 2025

Sermon for the Funeral of the Rev. Karla Koon

Staying Afloat

Unencumbered Love (Sermon for Priestly Ordinations, June 2025)

The Human Language of Babel and Pentecost

What About the Slave Girl?

With Hearts Broken Open

Something Old, Something New

Beautiful One, Get Up!

Shame Conquered By Resurrection

The 500 Year Review

Step by Step, with Doubts in Tow

Sermon for Easter Day, 2025

Practice Resurrection!

Reflection for Holy Saturday, 2025

Good Friday: On the Triduum Journey

Sermon for Maundy Thursday, 2025

Sermon for the Chrism Mass, 2025

Held By Paradox

Even the Stones Cry

Sermon for the Funeral of the Rev. Canon Pat Taylor

It’s Not Over

Burning Bushes and All

God, The Mother Hen

Who Are You Really?

Sermon for the Funeral of Carlo Scandiuzzi

Retracing Our Identity

Agony and Glory

Rewriting the Story

Sermon for the Funeral of Jonie Pritchard

Guest Sermon for Epiphany 6, 2025

Deeper Water

Keep Showing Up!

Resistance as Christian Vocation

Sermon for the Funeral of Dave Harms

What Kind of Sign is This?

Bishop’s Sermon for the Baptism of Our Lord

Embracing God’s Dream for Us

Guest Sermon for Christmas 1

A Cosmic Symphony

The Vulnerable Truth of Christmas

Christmas Eve Children’s Sermon, 2024

Destination Unknown

Guest Sermon for Advent 3

Guest Sermon for Advent 2, 2024

Sermon for Diaconal Ordinations, December 2024

Hope in Dark Times

Sermon for Thanksgiving Day 2024

What Is the Truth, Anyway?

The Next Right Step

A Sermon for Sunday

The Bell-Tolling Truth of All Saints

The Spirit Moves at Ground Level

What Can I do for You?

Removing the Blinders

Dealing with Difficult Texts (On Gender, Orientation, and Divorce)

Guest Sermon for Pentecost 19

Sermon for a Diaconal Ordination

The Glass Has Cracks In It

Sermon at the Seating of the New Bishop

Sermon for Pentecost 17, 2024

Homecomings

Sermon for the Service of Gratitude for Bishop Skelton

Pure Religion

Shaking Hands and Serving God’s Purpose

Sacramental Companions on the Journey

Finding Miracles in the Midst

Bread of Life

Letting God In

Are You Hungry?

Sermon for Pentecost 9, 2024

Sermon for Pentecost 8, 2024

Sermon for the Funeral of Bp Vincent Warner

Trust, Let Go, and Go

Risking Hope

Christ in the Storm

Sermon for Juneteenth 2024

Remember Your Future

Sermon for Ordinations (June 2024)

Proud to be His Family

Sabbath As Resistance

The Divine Dance of Love

The Language of Healing and Hope (Pentecost)

Sermon for Easter 7

Guest Sermon for Easter 6

Kindling the Fire of God’s Love

Sermon for Cathedral Day, 2024

A Good Shepherd, the Cosmic Christ, and Earth Day

“Only a Suffering God Can Help”

The Science of Grief, Breath, and Resilience

Practicing Resurrection (Easter Sunday, 2024)

Reflection on Holy Saturday, 2024

Sermon for Good Friday, 2024

Sermon for Maundy Thursday, 2024

Holy Tuesday: Healing and Wholeness

Holy Week is Hard Work (Palm Sunday, 2024)

Sermon for Lent 5, 2024

Guest Sermon for Lent 4, 2024

Story-telling as Spiritual Work

Following Jesus into Deeper Love

The Last Do-Over

The Journey Deep Down (Ash Wednesday)

Transfiguration Now

Rhythms of the Spiritual Life

The Authority of Love

Apricating to Jesus in These Urgent Times

“The Time is Always Ripe to Do Right”

Breath of God

May Your Joy Be Complete

Sermon for Christmas Day, 2023

Sermon for Christmas Eve, 2023

Christmas Eve Family Sermon 2023

Sermon for Advent 4, 2023

Refugees, Restoration, and Rejoicing

Paradox and Peace

Sermon for Diaconal Ordinations on the Feast of St Nicholas

Between “Fix It, Jesus” and “Stay Woke”

Forming the Second Line with Christ the King

Giving Thanks as a Habit (Thanksgiving Day)

Reflection on Trans Day of Remembrance

We Are Followers of Jesus!

Funeral Homily for The Rev. Jerry Shigaki

Faith in Action: Justice & Righteousness

A Feast of Memory

Love, Fungus, and Connectivity

An Unexpected Answer

A Metaphor for God

Guest Sermon for Pentecost 19, 2023

Sermon for Diaconal Ordinations, 2023

Belonging

Guest Sermon for Pentecost 17

Come to Me, All You Who Are Weary

Homecoming Sunday

“Follow Me”

Guest Sermon for Pentecost 13, 2023

Boundary-Dropping Work

The Problem with Ambition

Mirror Neurons and the Feminine Face of God

Re-engaging with Ideals

Down in the Weeds

Guest Sermon for Pentecost 7, 2023

Building True Character (The Undivided Life)

Three Tasks

Perilous Politics of Othering

The Wilderness (Sermon for Ordinations)

Pray, Proclaim

Sermon for Juneteenth

Dining Across The Divide

Sermon for Trinity Sunday 2023

Holy Spirit, Giver of Life

Life in the Spirit

Paying Attention to “The Good News”

Sermon for Easter 5, 2023

Shepherd And Sheep

The Gift of Surprise

Sermon for Cathedral Day 2023

Building Endurance for Joy

The Divine “Nevertheless” (Easter Day, 2023)

Excruciating Implications for God (Good Friday, 2023)

Sermon for Maundy Thursday, 2023

Sermon for Chrism Mass, 2023

Sermon for Palm Sunday, 2023

The Path of Passion

Caste Blindness

Sermon for Lent 3, 2023

Stay Curious

Social Sins and Lenten Goodness

This is My Body (Ash Wednesday)

A Truer Story

Sermon for Epiphany 6, 2023

You Are Worthy

Healing Transformation Made Real Through Prayer

Vocation as Meaning, Joy, and Purpose

Guest Sermon for Epiphany 2 & Martin Luther King Jr., 2023

Sermon for the Funeral of Paul Balmforth

A Story of Identity

Sermon for The Holy Name, 2023

Sermon for the Funeral of Hyde Tennis

The Brilliant Darkness of Potential Life

Taking Part in the Pageantry of Christmas

The Opposite of Love… Is Fear

Guest Sermon for Advent 3, 2022

Advent Longing

Sermon for the Funeral of The Rev. Pete Strimer

Parousia and a Pregnant Hope

Sermon for Thanksgiving Day, 2022

Sermon for Christ the King, 2022

Guest Sermon for Pentecost 23, 2022

Obedience is Not the Supreme Virtue

Separated in Space, Inseparable in the Spirit

Changing Perspectives

Sermon for Pentecost 20, 2022

Pray Always

Oh! To Be Fully Alive!

The Surprise of Courageous Trust

Sermon for Pentecost 16, 2022

Guest Sermon for Pentecost 15, 2022

Coming Home

Learning from Teenagers

Cathedral Linguistics

Sermon for Pentecost 11

There Are No Peaceful Prophets

The Essence of Things Hoped For

The Tangle

Sermon for Pentecost 7, 2022

Sermon for Pentecost 6, 2022

Mercy

The Values of an Imperiled Nation

Crystal Balls and Blessings

Sermon for Pentecost 3, 2022

The Whole Story

Seeking Truth

The Spirit Acting Up: This Is Our Story!

Courageous Hope in the Wake of More Gun Violence

Guest Sermon of Rabbi Daniel Weiner, May 22, 2022

Love is a Process

Protest as a Pastoral Response

Sermon for Cathedral Day 2022

Sermon for Easter 3, 2022

We Gather to Touch and to Know, We Gather to be Transformed so That We Might Transform

Dilated Minds and In-Between Times (Easter Sunday)

Looking in the Mirror (Sermon for Good Friday)

Sermon for Maundy Thursday 2022

Let the Same Mind Be In You That Was In Christ Jesus

Guest Sermon by The Rev. Bradley Hauff – Lent 5, 2022

Emotional Vocabulary and Knowing Glances

What Is Your Name?

Sermon for Lent 2, 2022

Wilderness as Wordless Place

Sermon for Ash Wednesday 2022

Luminous Learnings in Wartime

The Flow of Forgiveness

Being Happy is Important

Body of Broken Bones

To Love Is a Complicated Business

Sermon for January 23, 2022

Sermon for January 16, 2022

Beloved: A Homily on the Feast of the Baptism of Christ

Living the Dream

The Heartbeat of God

Sermon for Christmas Morning, 2021

Sing a New Song

Light of the World

Sermon for December 19, 2021

Advent Recipes

Wilderness

Sermon for November 28th, 2021

Thanksgiving Day—Touchstone and Truth

The Expectancy of Action

Sermon for November 14, 2021

Amniotic Bonds

Sermon for October 31, 2021

A Journey Without Maps

Sermon for October 17, 2021

Clearing a Way to Abundance

Dealing with Difficult Scriptures (on Divorce, Suffering, and Evil)

Grace to Include Instead of Fear of Loss

Sermon for September 19, 2021

“Thank You” is a Theological Statement

Sermon for September 5, 2021

Action and Contemplation

To Whom Shall We Go?

Eat, Drink, Live

Thresholds

You Are the One

“Letting Go, and Letting God”

We Don’t Know How to Love God

John the Baptist and Red Herrings

Rethinking the Fourth of July

The Contagion of Sin (or the Danger of Purity)

Who is in Our Boat?

Freedom and Healing: A Sermon for Juneteenth

Sermon for Ordination Liturgy, June 2021

The Realm of Weeds

Shift in the Atmosphere

You Know This

We Have To Be Willing To Begin Again

Where Did Jesus Go?

Godstuff

The Holy Spirit Does It Again

Sermon for May 1, 2021

The Shepherd’s Voice

We Are Witnesses

Rethinking Thomas

Easter Sunday Sermon, 2021

Go and Tell

A Terrible Beauty (Good Friday)

Love in the Time of Pandemic (Maundy Thursday)

Chrism Mass and Renewel of Vows

You Are Not Forsaken (Palm Sunday)

Auditioning for the Opera of Life

Sermon for March 14th, 2021

A House of Prayer

The Grief and Meaning of Lent

There’s a Rhythm

Sermon for Ash Wednesday 2021

Shining like the Sun

Hidden Things: Our Complicity in World-Making

Chiasms and Crucible Moments

Come As You Are

Where Do We Go from Here?

Light and Darkness

Joseph and the Journey

Next Stop: Grace Upon Grace

Six Words of Gratitude and Hope

The Improvisational Tune of Mary’s Story

Be The Messenger

Comforting Words from the Prophet of Advent

Keep Awake!

Thankfulness

Echoes of History and Christ the King

Follow the Good Road

Trimming Our Lamps in the Fiercely Urgent Now

You Are the Blessed

Jesus, What Comes Next?

Naming the Future

Cover Up

We Do What We Want To Do

Is God Among Us, Or Not?

Rethinking Our Economic Calculus

It’s Going to Take a Miracle

Forgiveness and This Crucible Moment

Desert Call

Pathways of Liberation

The Wideness of Mercy

Transformative Stories

Sermon for August 2 2020

What Is God Up To?

Sacred Ground

Generation to Generation

Family Stories

Sermon for Ordination Liturgy

Telling It and Trusting It

Understory

How Do We Know When God is Speaking to Us?

Claiming the Trinity

Blow ‘Til I Be

Heritage Sunday

Receiving the Holy Spirit

God’s Ecosystem

Gated Community

Spiritual Ancestors

Changing Everything

Wholehearted Living

Seeking Wisdom on Good Friday

Jesus, Remember

Pilgrimage at Home

Jesus’ Tears

We Pack for Our Fears

Sacramental Grace is Not Quarantined

Night Vision

Temptation

Decoding the Paradox of Ash Wednesday

Every Common Bush Afire With God

Choose Life. Choose Love.

Certitude is the Enemy of Truth

Feast of Blessing

Love Wins

Opening Questions?

Beloved

Second Sunday after Christmas

Dazzling Darkness

Be Astounded

Christmas Eve Sermon

About Angels

Waiting at Thresholds

Soul Maintenance

Anticipation

Thanksgiving Day

Who’s Your King

Saying Yes to God

Word Problems

The Give and Take of Life

Liberating Assumptions

Does God Need to be Nagged?

Transforming Leprosy

Jesus And The Telephone Game

Leftovers

It’s a Wonderful System

Plumbing the Depths of Divine Love

Awake on an Island

Pride and Distance

A Trip to Providence

Whose Peace?

Dr. Strange Tries to Pray

A sermon by The Rt. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori

Gift of God

Rethinking Sodom and the Nature of God

Holy Hospitality

The Samaritan and Our Spiritual Survival

Wait, WHAT?

Third Sunday After Pentecost

Reparations and the Demons of Our Nation

Trinity Sunday

Amazed and Astonished

Close Encounters

The Heritage Way

The Vulnerability of Love

Cathedral Day Sermon

Questions in Troubled Times

Use the Force

Now What?

The Feast of the Resurrection

Screw In Your Light Bulb

No Regrets

Who Is This Jesus?

A Technique of Awareness

The Flow of Things

Reimagining Our World

Abraham’s Descendants

Wilderness Questions

Rethinking the Moral Math of Lent

12:17PM

How Things Really Are

They Meant It For Evil; God Used It For Good

Where Do You Stand?

Fear and Calling

Tough Love

Today

Ordinary Transformation

Precious, Honored and Loved

The Maps of Life

Shine Now

Light and Life

Poetry in a Prose-filled World

Mother of God

Grounded in God’s Love

Love Letters

Are You Sure?

The Womb of Waiting

Ultimate Things

Happy Thanksgiving!

Bishop’s Visitation Sermon

No Strings Attached

This Sacramental Life

In God We Trust?

Great Enough

Power Play

Analyzing Our DNA

Religion and Politics

Who’s the Greatest?

Answering the Question

Who’s Sitting in My Pew?!

Rituals and the Reign of God

Flesh-eating Followers

Psalms for Today

Bread of Life

Abiding Memories

Pieced Together in Love

The Shocking Truth of Authority

A Different Hometown

Sacredly Human

Wake Up

Love’s Persistent Way

Naked, Not Afraid

Love is the Law

Truth of the Trinity

The Unbroken Circle

In or Out?

Abide in Joy

Two Vines

Lessons From the Flock

We Are Witnesses

You Are Sent

Arise and Tell the Story

Two Processions – Choose One

Grain of Glory

Composed for the End of Time

If You’re Note Outraged, You’re Not Jesus

So Many Opportunities

The Warp and Weft of Lenten Reality

Goodess Revealed

How We Heal

Chiasms of Compassion

Just Tell Me

Known By God

Heaven’s Delight