Sermons from May 2020

Note: What I wrote below and what I said aren’t quite the same. Read if you want, but listen too. The Spirit troubled the waters, and new life erupted forth. New life is eruption. It isn’t peaceful, it isn’t calm. It breaks through. Seeds crack as a shoot bursts forth. Dirt is shoved aside. Human life is born amidst pain and blood and water. We are troubled, and we live in troubled times, and maybe that trouble is the Spirit,…

Continuing the Work: Sermon on Easter 7 at St. Philip the Deacon Episcopal Church, May 24th, 2020. The Rev’d Maria McDowell, PhD, preaching.

Being the Way: Sermon on Easter 5 at St. Philip the Deacon Episcopal Church, May 10th, 2020. The Rev’d Maria McDowell, PhD preaching.