Sermons

Choose Life, Choose Death. Sermon given on June 28th, 2020 at St. Philip the Deacon Episcopal Church, Portland OR. The Rev’d Dr. Maria Gwyn McDowell preaching.

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.

“For Fear of the Jews,” its aftermath, and the invitation of the new life offered in Resurrection.

For Christ, having risen from the dead, is become the first-fruits of those who have fallen asleep.

Stay. Stay long enough to need your feet washed.