all saints – Mother A Writes

Maps to Jesus

Matthew 5:1-12 I don’t know if any of you have had the chance yet to watch The Chosen, or if you’ve even heard of it yet. It has been around for a couple of years now, but Ben and I are very often late to things like this, and we are just now getting aroundContinue reading “Maps to Jesus”

A How-to Guide to Sainthood

All Saints Day 2023 My campus minister was once asked the question “what does it take to be a saint?” He answered baptism, and death. That simple answer was met with stunned silence followed by a rush of questions and challenges. He stood by his answer, and all these years later I find it stillContinue reading “A How-to Guide to Sainthood”

We will be Real.

John 11:32-44 In one of C S Lewis’s shorter and lesser known works, The Great Divorce, the author and convert to Christianity explores the afterlife, the Great Divide between heaven and hell. The souls of those in hell are trapped in an ever expanding gray expanse of urban sprawl, constantly chilled and overcast in aContinue reading “We will be Real.”

We are remembered.

This sermon was given on All Saints Sunday to the people of St Luke’s Episcopal Church in Anchorage KY in 2019. This time last year, I was sitting in a choir stall, in a huge crowded chapel full of candlelight and community. I was there to observe the feast of All Saints, to witness aContinue reading “We are remembered.”