Sermon given on Maundy Thursday, 2017, St. Michael's and All Angels, Portland, Oregon.

Sermons

Sermon for Maundy Thursday, 2017

A Sermon given on Sunday, the 2nd week of Easter at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Portland, Oregon.

In the Risen Christ we see that even death does not have the last word. And so, instead of cowering in fear, we can, like Jesus, speak peace to one another and to our world. Each one of us will do so in different ways and different places, but our best moment of speaking peace will most likely arise from those places where we have been scarred the most, where we have suffered or caused to suffer. We are our bodies, we are our relationships, and every body and every relationship is where and how we love one another, how we join with Jesus Christ, who trampled down death by death so that we could become to one another what God is to us: the embodiment of justice, mercy, peace, hope and joy.

By Our Scars We Heal

We will, at various times in our lives, stand either in the place of the woman or Jesus and his disciples. Sometimes, we will insist on being heard, we will refuse to be content with crumbs, we will persistently point out that the world is not what those with privilege and power say it is. We will speak out of abundance, and it will be hard. We may do it in our jobs, our families, among our friends.

At other times, we will be on the receiving end of someone else’s persistent cry for justice and mercy, and like the disciples, we will not really want to listen.

Shouting at Jesus: The Canaanite Woman

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The Glory of Being Fully Human

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Sermon: For God so Loves

Sermon preached at St. Philip the Deacon, March 18, 2018

Sermon: We Want to See Jesus

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Sermon: Apostle to the Apostles

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Smelling Like the Saints

Sermon preached at St. Philip the Deacon Episcopal Church on October 28th, 2018

Seeing Power: Jesus or White Supremacy

Preached at St. Philip the Deacon Episcopal Church on Oct 07, 2018 by The Rev'd Maria McDowell. Mark 10:2-16, Hebrews 1:1-4; 2:5-12, Genesis 2:18-24.

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