All Souls Parish Sermons episodes:

• February 18, 2026Ash Wednesday

  The Rev. Phil Brochard

  Reflecting on writing their aunt’s obituary, the preacher explores how

  obituaries reveal what a person truly treasured in life. This becomes a

  lens for understanding Lent as a yearly reminder of mortality and a chance

  to reorient our hearts. Drawing on Jesus’ teaching about almsgiving,

  prayer, fasting, and treasure in Matthew’s Gospel, the sermon invites

  listeners to pay attention to where they direct their hearts and energy. By

  facing death honestly, we learn how to live intentionally—storing up what

  truly matters rather than what rusts and fades.

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• February 15, 2026Last Sunday after the Epiphany: Feast of the Transfiguration

  The Rev. Michael Lemaire

  The sermon reflects on the Transfiguration as both a climactic epiphany and

  a hinge moment leading toward the cross. While the event reveals Jesus’

  divine identity, the deeper transformation occurs in the disciples, whose

  understanding of God is challenged and expanded. The preacher argues that

  “believing is seeing”—our prior assumptions shape what we perceive,

  especially in the spiritual life. Our limited images of God can confine our

  experience of God. Drawing on Anthony de Mello, cosmic imagery, and the

  open-handed posture of early Christian prayer, the sermon invites listeners

  to hold their understanding of God lightly and remain open to being

  changed. The final question lingers: if Jesus invites you up the mountain,

  will you go?

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• February 08, 2026Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany

  The Rev. Dr. Bill McNabb

  Returning to the pulpit after five years, the preacher reflects on finding

  a spiritual home at All Souls and celebrates a faith marked by joy,

  inclusivity, and life. Drawing on Jesus’ images of salt and light, he calls

  Christians to enhance the world with delight rather than gloom and to shine

  visibly against fear and oppression. Through stories from history, personal

  memory, and scripture, the sermon affirms that love, joy, and small acts of

  light can become hinge moments that change the world.

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• February 02, 2026Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany

  The Rev. Phil Brochard

  This sermon links Jesus’s Beatitudes and Micah’s call to justice, showing

  that faith is not about achieving moral perfection or offering extravagant

  sacrifice, but about paying attention to where God already is. God’s

  blessing rests with the vulnerable, the grieving, and the oppressed. True

  faithfulness means acting with justice, kindness, and humility in places of

  suffering—embodied in acts of courage and compassion amid real human

  cruelty.

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• January 25, 2026Third Sunday after the Epiphany

  The Rev. Phil Brochard

  Jesus begins his ministry not in peace but in response to political

  repression, moving away from power and proclaiming an anti-imperial vision

  of God’s reign. The kingdom of heaven is not about the afterlife but God’s

  justice breaking into the present, calling people to repentance, understood

  as transformation and new vision. Discipleship is risky, communal, and

  urgent, especially in a world marked by violence and cruelty. The sermon

  invites listeners to see where healing and justice are already

  happening—and to follow Jesus together into that kingdom.

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• January 18, 2026Second Sunday after the Epiphany

  The Rev. Emily Boring

  The sermon proclaims that in a time marked by fear, cruelty, and division,

  the Christian calling is to witness to a deeper truth: love overcomes

  separation. Drawing on stories of communal resistance in Minnesota, the

  theology of John’s Gospel, and the season of Epiphany, the preacher names

  sin not as individual failure but as the illusion of separation. Jesus

  reveals that illusion and invites people into abiding relationship through

  love. Where separation feels strongest, love’s power is greatest—and the

  church is called to choose that love through movement, encounter, and

  courageous kinship.

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• January 12, 2026First Sunday after the Epiphany: Baptism of Our Lord

  The Rev. Phil Brochard, Pastor Anthony Hughes, & Rabbi Rebekah Stern

  In a shared interfaith sermon, three clergy reflect on Isaiah 42 as a call

  to collective, gentle justice rooted in vulnerability rather than

  domination. Reading the “servant” as a symbol of communal responsibility,

  they explore how true power emerges through care, shared suffering, and

  relational strength. Together, they affirm that justice is not inevitable

  through force, but possible through communities willing to protect the

  fragile, resist coercion, and imagine a different future.

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• January 05, 2026Second Sunday after Christmas Day

  The Rev. Phil Brochard

  This sermon reflects on marriage, family, and faith through the lens of

  Mary’s example in Luke’s Gospel. Love, it argues, is not about perfection

  but about the capacity to hold joy, conflict, and mystery together. Drawing

  connections between Mary’s response to Jesus, long-term marriage, and

  Christian commitment, the preacher emphasizes that true freedom lies in

  choosing to give oneself fully. Grace is found not in flawless

  relationships, but in the willingness to stay, treasure the hard moments,

  and be “in it for all of it.”

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• December 29, 2025First Sunday after Christmas Day

  The Rev. Dr. Mark Richardson

  This sermon proclaims that Christmas reveals what is truly real: a world

  created from God’s longing to be present within it. Drawing from John’s

  Gospel, it affirms that God is found not above the material world but

  within it, shining light into real darkness without denying suffering.

  Through poetry, community stories, and personal testimony, the sermon calls

  listeners to recognize and embody small but powerful lights of hope,

  trusting that God’s creative love continues to work through fragile, human

  lives.

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• December 26, 2025Christmas Day 2025

  The Rev. Emily Boring

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