The Rev. Emily Boring

The Rev. Phil Brochard

The Rev. Michael Lemaire

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”