Sermon on March 9, 2025“Being Tested in the Wilderness”By: The Very Rev. Pamela Dolan “Lead us not into temptation.” This phrase is from the version of the Lord’s Prayer that I learned as a child, the version that we still use in our Rite…
Sermon on March 2, 2025“Embrace Mystery, Cultivate Love”By: The Very Rev. Pamela Dolan One of the films nominated for a Best Picture Oscar at tonight’s Academy Awards is Conclave, a fictional account of a papal election, with much to say about the role of…
Sermon on February 16, 2025“People of Both-And”By: The Ven. Margaret Grayden The Via Media, or “the middle way,” is one of the most distinctive characteristics of the Anglican tradition in which the Episcopal Church is rooted. In theological terms, the Via Media represents the…
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.”…
