Sermon on February 9, 2025“Go Deeper”: A Sermon for Epiphany 5By: The Very Rev. Pamela DolanGospel passage: Luke 5:1-11 Sermon text: I’m going to be honest and just say up front that I’ve never been crazy about that image of “fishing for men,” even…
Sermon on February 2, 2025 for the Feast of the Presentation“Loving our Neighbor and Becoming Brave“By: The Very Rev. Pamela Dolan Video of the sermon here: https://youtu.be/xD_djMrhVAgLink to Bishop Megan’s letter here. Sermon text: I’d like to add just a few words to this…
Sermon by: The Very Rev. Pamela DolanSermon for Christmas Day December 25, 2024 “Light & Life” There’s a reason that candles and lights are one of our favorite symbols of Christmas. In the northern hemisphere, Christmas occurs just a few days after the winter…
Sermon by: The Very Rev. Pamela DolanSermon for Christmas Eve December 24, 2024“Refugia” I was in fifth grade, sitting in a classroom in Aikahi Elementary School in Kailua, Hawaii, when I heard about the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. Like most of my classmates,…
Sermon by: The Very Rev. Pamela DolanSermon for Advent 3, December 15, 2024“Bah Humbug, You Brood of Vipers” If you are lucky enough to still be receiving actual Christmas cards in the mail, I think it’s a safe bet that very few of this…
Sermon by: The Very Rev. Pamela Dolan“The Compassion of God“Dec 8, 2024 In the Monastery of the Cross, an Eastern Orthodox monastery in the city of Jerusalem, there is a medieval fresco depicting two men. One is elderly, with a long gray beard, wearing…
Sermon by: The Rev. Pamela Dolan“Prophets, Presence, and the Promise of Truth“Dec 1, 2024 “Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day catch you unexpectedly, like a trap.”…
Sermon by: The Rev. Pamela Dolan“Apocalypse Now“Nov 17, 2024Reading: The Gospel of Mark 13:1-8 If you are a film buff, the word “apocalypse” may bring to mind images from the 1977 movie Apocalypse Now, images of the terror and darkness, violence and death, associated…
Sermon by: The Rev. Pamela Dolan“Here and Now: A Moment that Matters“A Sermon for All Saints’ SundayNov 3, 2024 In an introduction to the book All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson wrote, “It is a…
Sermon by: The Rev. Pamela Dolan“Walk in Love”October 20, 2024 “Walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.” This verse from Paul’s letter to the Ephesians is the source of the offertory sentence…
