Sermon: Redlight Greenlight- Seeing a way forward with hope
Having watched stoplights here in Boston and people running red lights like they don’t exist, I am not under the illusion that the solution to the world’s problems would be if we could control time.
And yet, as people of faith we live in space where we are able to stop.
Sermon: Joy and Grief Holding Hands
On this All Souls Day, even as our hearts are heavy with grief, we remember with joy the faithful departed. We read their names aloud, entrusting them one by one to God’s eternal love and care.
Sermon: We Lie About Our Ambition
It’s like we’re eating while we’re driving: Filet-O-Fish in hand, working the steering wheel with a knee and realizing suddenly we have to slam our brakes. And, when we do, the fry we had just squirted with ketchup breaks in half, the heavier, ketchup side falling right on our shirt – bloop. And, man, we are maaadddd as double-hockey-sticks.
Sermon: Have and come and follow
In 2025 as always, God calls us to love one another as God loves us, within these sacred walls and well beyond them.
Sermon: No Longer Two But One
St. Francis loved to laugh; and so, his laughter was infectious. Those around him were infected by his joy of finding access to God in the strangest places. So, Francis kisses the hand of the leper. Here is why Francis should be seen as a saint. He is a saint not because he does something most of us would be repulsed by but because he was seeking God beyond his capacity to know God.
Sermon: Whoever is not against us is for us
Anyone who has been a tween or teen knows that this story will end as many do from those periods of our lives—and I suspect that, if you are sitting here on a Sunday in the sanctuary, willing and wanting and perhaps needing to listen to stories of God’s love and presence, then you yourself have most likely had a similar experience as this one.
Sermon: A Vital, Embodied Faith
Trinity Church in the City of Boston The Rev. Morgan S. Allen September 15, 2024 Proper 20 (Year B): Mark 8:27-38 In you, O Lord, have we taken refuge; for […]
Sermon: Held in Common
Trinity Church in the City of Boston The Rev. Morgan S. Allen September 15, 2024 Proper 19 (Year B): Mark 8:27-38 In you, O Lord, have we taken refuge; for […]
Sermon: Hurricanes, Rivers, and Crumbs…that all might be fed, healed, and loved
Trinity Church in the City of Boston Proper 18, Year A September 8, 2024 Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23 Psalm 125 Mark 7:24-37 Grant us, O Lord, to trust in you […]
A Love Poem Like No Other
The Rev. Brandon Ashcraft The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 17 (Year B) Song of Solomon 2:8-13 Trinity Church in the City of Boston September 1, 2024 A Love Poem […]