Sunday Sermons from San Francisco's Grace Cathedral, home to a community where the best of Episcopal tradition courageously embraces innovation and open-minded conversation. At Grace Cathedral, inclusion is expected and people of all faiths are welcomed. The cathedral itself, a renowned San Francisco landmark, serves as a magnet where diverse people gather to worship, celebrate, seek solace, converse and learn.
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Recorded live at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral, The Forum is a series of stimulating conversations about faith, ethics and culture in relation to the important issues of our day. Host and Dean of Grace Cathedral Malcolm Clemens Young invites artists, inventors, philosophers, pop culturists, elected officials and other inspiring guests to share in a civil, sophisticated discourse that engages hearts and minds to think in new ways about the world.
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Podcasts of Grace Cathedral Christian Fellowship located at 60 Oswego Road, Sumter, South Carolina; where Apostle Sammy C. Smith is the presiding Bishop and Pastor Anthony Gibson is the pastor.
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Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2E71 All Saints Day 11:00 a.m. Baptism Sunday 3 November 2024 Daniel 12:1-3 Psalm 24 Revelation 21:1-6a John 11:32-44 “See I am making all things new… I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end” (Rev. 21). 1. In three days there will be an election. We have heard about authoritarianism and the Deep St…
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The Rev. Canon Dr. Stephanie Spellers is one of the Episcopal Church’s leading thinkers around 21st-century ministry and mission. She is a priest, author, speaker, and friend who currently serves as the Canon to the Presiding Bishop for Evangelism, Reconciliation, and Creation Care. She is the author of Radical Welcome: Embracing God, The Other, an…
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The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost: Proper 25 Grace Cathedral, San Francisco October 27, 2024
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Job 38:1-7, 34-41 Hebrews 5:1-10 Mark 10: 35-45
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Jesus delivers a hard truth to the young man seeking eternal life: “Sell everything, give the proceeds to the poor and then come follow me.” We shouldn’t be surprised. Jesus’s words are often sharp and difficult, designed to slice through our defenses, excuses and comfortable structures. Why? Because he wants to see us healed, whole and living like…
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What is it like to be blessed with riches in an era of stark political divisions and near-Dickensian economic differences? How mind-boggling are the opportunities and access, how problematic the downsides? Does one’s experience differ depending on whether the money is made or inherited, whether you are male or female, white or black? Does being a h…
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Holy God so often we feel cut off from you and one another. Help us find our way to healing and hope, so that we can become new again. Amen. Strikingly beautiful, Maria had deep dark eyes and long black hair. Superficially she seemed jaded, a kind of rebel. But if you took the time to really know her, she had great intelligence, sensitivity and hea…
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The Forum with The Rt. Rev. Austin Rios
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Note: The music stops at 0:50. September 29, 2024 at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco Join Grace Cathedral Dean Malcolm Clemens Young for an engaging conversation with the Ninth Bishop of California, The Rt. Rev. Austin Keith Rios, who was installed as Bishop in August. As the chief pastor of the diocese, Bishop Rios is entrusted with leading, super…
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Genesis 28:10-17 Revelation 12:7-12 John 1:47-51
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When your faith begins to feel too small, too confining, you could choose to leave it. But what if the faith we inhabit is roomier than we'd thought? What if our collapsing faith is just a closet in a much larger dwelling? Disillusioned by narrow theologies, church dysfunction, and constricted readings of Scripture, people are leaving Christianity…
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Making Greatness Great Again - Debie Thomas, Author
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What does vulnerability have to do with greatness? How is a defenseless child a portrait of God? Our reading from Mark's Gospel this week cuts hard against the grain of our obsessions with performance, perfection, achievement, and superiority. In likening the divine to a child, Jesus invites us to relinquish the deep fears we harbor around our own …
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“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and to forfeit his life?” (Mk. 7). Proverbs 1:20-33 Psalm 19 James 3:1-12 Mark 8:27-38 What does it mean to lose our life in order to save it?
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“Looking up to heaven [Jesus] and said… “Ephatha,” that is, “Be opened” (Mk. 7). The Very Rev. Dr. Malcolm Clemens Young, Dean Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2E58 16 Pentecost (Proper 18B) 11:00 a.m. Eucharist Sunday 8 September 2024, Congregation Sunday Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23 Psalm 125 James 2:1-10, (11-13), 14-17 Mark 7:24-37 How can we …
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Song of Solomon 2:8-13 James 1:17-27 Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
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“Once there were three baby owls: Sarah and Percy and Bill. They lived in a hole in the trunk of a tree with their Owl Mother…” [1] These are the first lines in the children’s picture book Owl Babies. One night the three children wake up and find that their mother has gone. The older two siblings have theories about where their mother went and wave…
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“We have come to believe and know that you are the Holy One of God” (Jn. 6). 1 Kings 8:(1,6,10-11),22-30,41-43 Psalm 84 Ephesians 6:10-20 John 6:56-69
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1 Kings 2:10-12, 3:3-14 Ephesians 5:15-20 John 6:51-58
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The Forum with Michael Goldberg on Jukebox
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In this special summer Forum, meet Addicted To Noise founder and former Rolling Stone senior writer Michael Goldberg and get a firsthand account of the first-ever collection of his photographs in the new book JUKEBOX: 1967-2023 Photographs.
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In the crypt of the basilica in Assisi, there is a shirt made out of hair that once adorned the mortal body of St. Clare. Each time I visited that Umbrian mecca of a kind of sainthood that remains admirable and replicable today—the decision of St. Francis and St. Clare to choose worldly poverty in exchange for spiritual richness—I found myself dwel…
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“[B]e kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you” (Ephesians 4). Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2E46 12 Pentecost (Proper 14) 11:00 a.m. Eucharist Sunday 11 August 2024 1 Kings 19:4-8 Psalm 130 Ephesians 4:25-5:2 John 6-35, 41-51 “Why is life sacred? Because we experience it within ourselves as …
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“Dark and cheerless is the morn unaccompanied by thee; joyless is the day’s return till thy mercy’s beams I see, till they inward light impart, glad my eyes and warm my heart.” Why practice religion? Last week a New York Times journalist asked me a question I frequently hear from my neighbors. “Is religion dying out?” People raising this topic ofte…
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We gather today to celebrate with great joy the 50th anniversary of the ordination of women in The Episcopal Church. And precisely because of our joy, we keep in mind the long road that led to this occasion, the unnumbered women and men who were told they were separating themselves from the church by faithfully challenging it. On the Feast of Mary …
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21 July 2024 2 Sameul 7:1-14a Ephesians 2:11-22 Mark 6:30-34, 53-56
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2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19 Ephesians 1:3-14 Mark 6:14-29
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Mark called it a Gospel, what he wove from sayings and parables of Jesus, scenes from Jesus’ ministry, and a Passion narrative. He set the Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan as the beginning and ended it with the women fleeing an empty tomb in fear, and charged all his scenes energetically with feeling-rich questions in conversations among Jesus, the apo…
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As The book of Common Prayer offers, we pray: O God, you have bound us together in a common life. Help us, in the midst of our struggles for justice and truth, to confront one another without hatred or bitterness, and to work together with mutual forbearance and respect; through Jesus Christ our Lord. [1] Amen.…
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1 Samuel 17:57-18:5, 10-16 2 Corinthians 6:1-13 Mark 4:35-41
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The Forum with Scott D. Sampson, Ph.D. - June 9, 2024
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In all the many conversations about climate change, sometimes the story of what nature’s value is to us can get a bit lost. We have a lot to learn from the kinds of traditions that see nature as relatives, not resources; as communities, not commodities. We need a narrative that places us back within the natural world as actors in this multi-million…
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“Even though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day" (2 Cor. 4). 1 Samuel 8:4-11, 16-20 Psalm 138 2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1 Mark 3:20-35
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The Forum with Michele Benedetto Neitz
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The internet of today is a far cry from its early promise of a decentralized, democratic network of innovation, connection, and freedom. In the past decade, it has fallen under the control of a small group of powerful companies. But the dream of an open network for fostering creativity and entrepreneurship doesn’t have to die. And it just might be …
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The Rev. Miguel Bustos Manager for Racial Reconciliation and Justice, The Episcopal Church
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Through the Sabbath into a Strange New World
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“O God, your never-failing providence sets in order all things both in heaven and earth." 1 Samuel 3:1-10 (11-20) Psalm 139:1-5, 12-17 2 Corinthians 4:5-12 Mark 2:23-3:6 1. Near the end of The Last Battle, C.S. Lewis’ children’s book about the apocalypse, the great Lion stands before a massive closed door which seems to have nothing behind its door…
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Trinity Sunday Isaiah 6:1-8 Psalm 29 Romans 8:12-17 John 3:1-17 Today, question of the Nicene Creed, its use and revision is only slightly less charged than it was 1600 years ago. That we continue to profess our faith in the Trinity with the Nicene Creed is for some is an unassailable article of truth which binds us to Christians across time and tr…
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The history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is an “extraordinary” story of disruption and destruction, told for the first time in this comprehensive, jaw-dropping narrative (Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the Myth). Palo Alto’s weather is temperate, its people are educated and enterprising, its corporatio…
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Pentecost Day Acts 2:1-21 Psalm 104:25-35, 37 Romans 8:22-27 John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 We gather in homage to the Holy Spirit, the Third Person of the Trinity, revealed in various forms and as the Spirit of Truth. Today's festival is also a festival of justice, one that may confound our expectations and upend our sense of comfort. Building common und…
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Jesus prayed, “I speak these things in the world so that they may have my joy made complete in themselves” (Jn. 17). Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 Psalm 1 1 John 5:9-13 John 17:6-19 Friendship According to Aristotle and Jesus 1. “We seek one mystery, God, with another mystery, ourselves. We are mysterious to ourselves because God’s mystery is in us.” [i] Gar…
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The Oxford English Dictionary is one of mankind’s greatest achievements, and yet, curiously, its creators are almost never considered. Who were the people behind this unprecedented book? As Dr. Sarah Ogilvie reveals, they include three murderers, a collector of pornography, the daughter of Karl Marx, a president of Yale, a radical suffragette, a vi…
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Acts 10:44-48 1 John 5:1-6 John 15:9-17
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The Forum at Grace Cathedral with Tonya M. Foster
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Prayer is a convergence of absence and will. A poem is a kind of prayer. — Dr. Tonya M. Foster Dr. Tonya M. Foster is a poet, essayist, editor, and Black feminist scholar. Her writing and research focus on poetry, poetics, ideas of place and emplacement, and on intersections between the visual and the written. She uses all types of words in her poe…
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Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2E26 5 Easter (Year B) 11:00 a.m. Eucharist Sunday 28 April 2024 | Earth Day Acts 8:26-40 Psalm 22:24-30 1 John 4:7-21 John 15:1-8 “Mysterious God we have lost our home. We are wandering. Help us to hear your call and find ourselves again in you. Amen." 1. In wild places I have heard the voice of God... From the t…
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