Sermons from Trinity Cathedral Portland

Faith Curammeng | Day 13 | Advent for Every Body

"We who are on the trails partake in our own church."
About today's speaker: Faith Curammeng is Communication Studies Instructor at the University of Portland and a vestry member at Trinity Cathedral, Portland.
 
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Kerlin Richter | Day 12 | Advent for Every Body

"Your body is a miracle so deep that God herself longed to be in a body like yours."
About today's speaker: Kerlin Richter is an Episcopal Priest, a painter, a writer, a preacher, a 7 on the enneagram, a failed southerner, a stalled drummer, and an unrepentant schemer. Kerlin is currently the Rector of Saint David of Wales Episcopal Church in Southeast Portland, OR, and is currently in the process of becoming a licensed sex educator.
 
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Joanne Gallardo | Day 11 | Advent for Every Body

"I have been at war with my body since I was young."
About today's speaker: Joanne Gallardo is Conference Minister for Indiana-MI Mennonite Conference of the Mennonite Church USA in Goshen, Indiana. Originally from northwest Ohio, Joanne is a graduate of Goshen College and Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in Elkhart, Indiana. In addition to church work, Joanne has spent part of her career working in mental health. In her spare time, Joanne writes, sings in a women’s choir and enjoys spending time with friends.
 
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Alicia Johnson | Day 10 | Advent for Every Body

"Did Mary's heartbreak feel like mine?"
About today's speaker: Alicia Johnson is a parishioner, member of Spiritual Formation Commission, and Youth Leader at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral.
 
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Karen Tiegs | Day 9 | Advent for Every Body

"Anyone with cancer knows the challenge of loving our bodies when it seems like our bodies have turned against us."
About today's speaker: The Rev'd Karen Tiegs is a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon.
 
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12/4/2022 Canon Charissa Simmons

"Children can teach us how to enter a mystery." Sermon by Canon Charissa Simmons, recorded live at 10:00am on Sunday December 4, 2022.
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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.
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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.
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