Dec 18, 2016
"The time for respectability is over. It is the time for solidarity."
Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, December 18, 2016. Readings: Psalm 80:1-7, 16-18 and Matthew 1:18-25. You can watch this sermon on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af7C5U7vGQ8&feature=youtu.be.
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Dec 11, 2016
"Mary was the Mother of the Revolution of Love and the Magnificat is her protest chant – a protest chant the church has spent 2000 years mansplaining in an effort to silence the radical power of her proclamation."
Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, December 11, 2016. Readings: Isaiah...
Dec 4, 2016
"John isn’t saying 'be ashamed: the end is near.' John is saying 'change your life: the beginning is near. Turn and receive new life!'"
Sermon by Mike Kinman, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, December 4, 2016. Readings: Isaiah 11:1-10 and Matthew 3:1-12. Watch this sermon on YouTube at
Nov 27, 2016
"Advent is time for hope -- not a necessarily a time for patience. It is a time to use our collective righteous indignation as fuel for the holy work of resistance."
Sermon by Susan Russell, at All Saints Church, Pasadena, on Sunday, November 27, 2016. Readings: Romans 13:11-14 and Matthew 24:36-44. You can watch this...
Nov 20, 2016
"We must not let systems whose only desire is to perpetuate injustice and violence against the powerless, for the benefit of the powerful, use our theology against us. The mandate of forgiveness without repentance, and reconciliation without justice, is one of the biggest ways that our theology has been weaponized for...