Sermons from Trinity Cathedral Portland

Elizabeth Schroeder | Day 8 | Advent for Every Body

"Birth is purely physical and all miraculous."
 
About today's speaker: Elizabeth Schroeder is a licensed practical nurse with experience in midwifery, including well-woman care, prenatal, postpartum, and labor and delivery care, as well as long-term care and rehab, currently serving at Elderplace. She is also Music Leader and a member at St. Philip the Deacon in Portland, OR.
 
Advent for Every Body is a daily podcast exploring how human bodies bear God in our world. Listen every day in Advent right here in the "Sermons from Trinity Cathedral Portland" podcast feed.

Michael Ellick | Day 7 | Advent for Every Body

"Was Mary a mother nature goddess, or was she just a girl from Nazareth?"
 
About today's speaker: The Rev'd Michael Ellick is a United Church of Christ pastor and a Community Organizer from the Goose Hollow neighborhood in Portland, OR. Raised in a Conservative Baptist church in Washington State, Ellick studied Comparative Religion and Philosophy at the University of Washington before earning his M.Div. at Union Theological Seminary. There he grew frustrated with contemporary theological thinking, and looking for new ways to understand the Gospel and real world practices for embodying it, he studied closely under a Tibetan Buddhist teacher for the next seven years.
 
Advent for Every Body is a daily podcast exploring how human bodies bear God in our world. Listen every day in Advent right here in the "Sermons from Trinity Cathedral Portland" podcast feed.

Hope Benko | Day 6 | Advent for Every Body

"I can't claim to have really understood my own body until my child was born."
About today's speaker: The Rev'd Hope Benko is Vice President of Enrollment Management and Student Services for Seminary of the Southwest. A lifelong Episcopalian, she relishes building relationships throughout the wider church to welcome new students to our community. Hope is married to the the Rev'd Dr. Andrew Benko and together they are have two children and a labradoodle.
Advent for Every Body is a daily podcast exploring how human bodies bear God in our world. Listen every day in Advent right here in the "Sermons from Trinity Cathedral Portland" podcast feed.

Mary Curlew | Day 5 | Advent for Every Body

"Through Mary, the trauma of hunger, brutality, and inequity are met with mercy." 
About today's speaker: Mary Curlew, LCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Portland, Maine, and a postulate for the priesthood in Diocese of Massachusetts. She lives in Peakes Island, Maine.
Advent for Every Body is a daily podcast exploring how human bodies bear God in our world. Listen every day in Advent right here in the "Sermons from Trinity Cathedral Portland" podcast feed.

Matthew Lawrence & Beverly Ffolkes-Bryant | Day 4 | Advent for Every Body

"You're too busy to listen to this podcast."
About today's speakers: The Rev'd Dr. Matthew Lawrence wants your brain happy, your curiosity sparked, and your heart opened to the wisdom of this ancient and often difficult tradition. A graduate of the University of Chicago’s Divinity School, he oversees the educational offerings at Trinity. A student of Zen as well as Contemplative Prayer, he has served as a parish priest, campus chaplain, hospital chaplain, peace activist, policy analyst and management consultant. He also loves to ride his motorcycle along beautiful curvy roads near oceans or mountains.
Dr. Beverly Ffolkes-Bryant has served as Community School District Superintendent at NYC Department of Education for the past four decades and is a member of Trinity Church Wall Street. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Advent for Every Body is a daily podcast exploring how human bodies bear God in our world. Listen every day in Advent right here in the "Sermons from Trinity Cathedral Portland" podcast feed.

Heidi Haverkamp | Day 3 | Advent for Every Body

"Our bodies are portals to the holy."
About today's speaker: The Rev'd Heidi Haverkamp is a writer, spiritual director, and Episcopal priest. In 2019, she won two awards from the Church Associated Press for her article “How I learned to love the doctrine of total depravity” in The Christian Century. Her newest book is a year-long personal study and prayer resource based on the Sunday lectionary, the second in a series of three: Everyday Connections: Reflections and Practices for Year A. She is also author of two previous books: Advent in Narnia and Holy Solitude: Lenten Reflections with Saints, Hermits, Prophets, and Rebels. She lives in Indianapolis with her husband.
Advent for Every Body is a daily podcast exploring how human bodies bear God in our world. Listen every day in Advent right here in the "Sermons from Trinity Cathedral Portland" podcast feed.

Allison Sandlin Liles | Day 2 | Advent for Every Body

"Anxiety is dreadful expectation, but hope is expectant desire."
 
About today's speaker: The Rev'd Allison Sandlin Liles is a wife, mother, peacemaker and priest-in-charge of St Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Hurst, TX. Allison spent the first six years of her ordained ministry working in churches in Diocese of Alabama, then she spent the following six years serving as Episcopal Peace Fellowship’s Executive Director. Allison joined the Forward Movement staff in May 2018 as editor of Grow Christians, an online community that helps parents foster faith at home through action and conversation. Allison is married to the Rev'd Dr. Eric Liles, mother of two elementary aged children and two rescue dogs.
 
Advent for Every Body is a daily podcast exploring how human bodies bear God in our world. Listen every day in Advent right here in the "Sermons from Trinity Cathedral Portland" podcast feed.

11/2/22 Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo

"It's about damn time." Sermon by Elizabeth Harlan-Ferlo, recorded live at 10:00am on Sunday November 27, 2022.
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Joanna Harader | Day 1 | Advent for Every Body

"The Word becomes flesh only through the flesh and blood of women." 
About today's speaker: Joanna Harader serves as pastor of Peace Mennonite Church in Lawrence, Kansas, and is the author of Expecting Emmanuel: Eight Women Who Prepared the Way.
Advent for Every Body is a daily podcast exploring how human bodies bear God in our world. Listen every day in Advent right here in the "Sermons from Trinity Cathedral Portland" podcast feed.

Introducing: Advent for Every Body | Nathan LeRud & Shana McCauley

Dean Nathan LeRud & Canon for Cathedral Life Shana McCauley introduce Advent for Every Body, a daily podcast exploring how human bodies bear God in our world. Listen every day in Advent right here in the "Sermons from Trinity Portland" podcast feed, beginning Sunday, November 26.