In this Pride sermon, The Rev. Mike Angell reflects on the church’s history of both harm and courage, lifting up the witness of Pauli Murray and the faithful resistance of local communities. The message is clear: welcome is not something the church gets credit for, but something it is called to live into. The work ahead is making sure every LGBTQ+ person, and every child, knows they are created in the image and likeness of God, beloved and fully included.

On Trinity Sunday, Rev. Mike Angell reframes doctrine as invitation. The Trinity reveals God as dynamic relationship, not solitary power. Even with doubt, we are drawn into belonging, made in the image of love. In a divided world, faith becomes practiced community, where all are welcomed to the table at the heart of God.

This sermon explores the Spirit not as spectacle, but as breath—quietly bringing peace, healing, and courage. Through scripture and personal stories, it reveals how holy love restores brokenness, overcomes fear, and forms new community. True belief means giving one’s whole heart to God’s love and living it out.

On Ascension Day, this sermon contrasts a culture of shallow, disposable living with the Gospel’s call to rooted presence. Drawing on Robin Wall Kimmerer and the angels in Acts, it invites us to stop looking for escape, to love fiercely, and to live deeply. Not everywhere, but somewhere. As if we were staying.

Set against stories of injustice past and present, this sermon explores Jesus’ commandment to love as a costly, embodied practice. Rooted in the farewell discourse and the Eucharist, it calls the church to resist separation, stand with the suffering, and become Christ’s body, broken and given for the life of the world.

In this sermon, our rector reflects on how Christian faith has often been shaped by an anxious focus on salvation that Jesus himself never centers. Drawing on John 14, he argues that Jesus’ words about being “the way” point not to exclusion or superiority, but to a way of life marked by trust, compassion, and openness to God here and now. When fear‑based theology turns faith into boundary‑making or nationalism, it loses sight of a God whose house always has room to spare.

On Good Shepherd Sunday, the image of sheep and shepherd can feel distant or even insulting. Drawing on Palestinian shepherd practices, Howard Thurman’s wisdom, and Psalm 23, this sermon explores discernment, trust, and how we recognize the voice that leads toward life rather than fear or domination.

On the road to Emmaus, the risen Christ walks unnoticed beside grieving disciples. The Rev. Lee Lowery explores how we remake Jesus in our own image, miss his presence in everyday life, and yet encounter him again in community, Scripture, sacrament, and the faces of those most in need.