All Souls Parish Sermons episodes:

• June 22, 2025Second Sunday after Pentecost

  The Rev. Dr. Paula Nesbitt

  The sermon reflects on evangelism through personal stories, highlighting

  its value when rooted in compassion and dignity. While acknowledging

  harmful uses of evangelism, the speaker reclaims it as a spiritual practice

  grounded in listening, healing, and inclusive love. From handing out

  pamphlets in Honolulu to standing against hate with rainbow banners, the

  message urges us to live our faith boldly and lovingly, embodying the good

  news of Christ.

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• June 15, 2025Trinity Sunday

  The Rev. Michael Lemaire

  Rather than explain the Trinity, the sermon invites us to live it. Using

  the Christian liturgical calendar as a spiritual map, the preacher explores

  how the death-and-resurrection pattern—the Paschal Mystery—shapes our

  lives. Personal suffering mirrors Good Friday, and unexpected renewal

  echoes Easter. The Ascension calls us to let go; Pentecost empowers us to

  move forward. In a changing world and through personal grief, this cycle

  continues. A reflection on the resilient life of Kay Dreher illustrates how

  enduring hope can emerge from pain. The Trinity, then, is not a puzzle to

  solve but a sacred rhythm we inhabit.

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• June 09, 2025Day of Pentecost

  The Rev. Phil Brochard

  The sermon reflects on spiritual experience, psychedelics, and discernment.

  Inspired by a study where clergy took psilocybin and had mystical

  encounters, it compares these to the Pentecost event and modern healing

  stories like Marsha Linehan's. It urges openness to divine encounter, with

  true spiritual experiences recognized by the healing, connection, and

  transformation they bring—not just for oneself, but for others.

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• June 01, 2025Seventh Sunday of Easter

  The Rev. Emily Boring

  The sermon reflects on Jesus's prayer in John 17, emphasizing that divine

  unity and love are gifts to be received, not achieved. Using a personal

  story about learning to stop striving in prayer, the preacher draws

  parallels to how Jesus desires his followers to dwell in divine love. Unity

  flows not from doctrine or effort, but from the experience of agape love,

  which transforms and unites. The message concludes with a call to trust in

  being held by God's love and to let that love overflow in community.

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• May 25, 2025Sixth Sunday of Easter

  The Rev. Joseph Delgado

  The sermon reflects on legacy through the speaker’s experience as a

  healthcare chaplain and a moving personal story about caring for their

  dying mother. Her parting blessing—full of love and responsibility—became a

  legacy of service that still shapes their family. This personal legacy

  mirrors Jesus’s farewell discourse in John, where he promises peace and the

  guidance of the Spirit. Christians are reminded that they are beloved

  children of God, called to live out that love through service. Our faith,

  like Christ’s legacy, is known by love.

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• May 18, 2025Fifth Sunday of Easter

  The Rev. Phil Brochard

  The sermon tells the story of Kelsey Buyers, whose encounter with

  literature and longing for spiritual connection led her back to church and

  eventually to baptism. Her story mirrors the Acts narrative of Peter's

  vision and the inclusion of Gentiles, showing how the Holy Spirit often

  disrupts established boundaries. The preacher urges openness to God's new

  work and warns against mistaking traditionalism for faithful tradition.

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• May 12, 2025Fourth Sunday of Easter

  The Rev. Harlowe Zefting

  The sermon weaves together Mother’s Day, Good Shepherd Sunday, and three

  lectionary texts to explore belonging and community boundaries. It

  highlights Tabitha’s central role in Acts, the inclusive vision in

  Revelation, and the tension of exclusion in John’s gospel. The preacher

  reflects on historical Christian othering, especially of Jews, and instead

  urges that community boundaries serve to guide love and responsibility, not

  exclusion. Belonging means care, not gatekeeping.

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• May 04, 2025Third Sunday of Easter

  The Rev. Emily Boring

  The preacher recalls a formative summer spent aboard a marine research

  vessel, where awe at the vastness and mystery of the ocean inspired a

  peaceful acceptance of their own smallness and mortality. This experience

  parallels the final scene in John’s gospel, where the resurrected Jesus

  meets the disciples by the sea, helps them catch a miraculous number of

  fish, and shows that divine presence is often found in everyday moments.

  The sermon emphasizes recognizing Christ not only through miracles or

  scripture, but in the abundance, diversity, and interconnectedness of all

  creation.

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• April 28, 2025Second Sunday of Easter

  The Rev. Dr. Ruth Meyers

  The sermon draws on the image of a lagoon and ocean from a vacation in the

  Cook Islands to illustrate the contrast between safety and the unknown. It

  recounts the disciples’ fear after Jesus’s death, their transformation

  through the risen Christ’s appearance, and their eventual bold witness in

  Acts. These events parallel the journey of faith: from shelter to courage,

  from doubt to belief, and from comfort to calling. The sermon honors Emily

  Hansen Curran for her decade of ministry at All Souls and blesses her as

  she ventures out to found St. Lucy’s Church, urging all to embrace the

  Spirit’s call beyond safe harbors.

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• April 20, 2025Easter Sunday

  The Rev. Phil Brochard

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