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 2F7 7 Epiphany (Year C) 8:30 and 11 a.m. Eucharist Sunday 23 February 2025 Genesis 45:3-11, 15 Psalm 37:1-12, 41-42 1 Corinthians 15:35-38,42-50 Luke 6:27-38 In these days of enmity how shall we live? This sermon is about the good news that even today we can live with grace and joy. “Love your enemies, do good to …
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Marion Nestle Forum
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1:03:12Dietary guidelines, alcohol, ultra-processed foods. It seems like new recommendations come out every day. Who is making our food choices? Marion Nestle, one of the seven most powerful foodies (Forbes Magazine), is a molecular biologist and nutritionist who started the country’s first academic food-studies program at NYU, bringing attention to the r…
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Cathedral , San Francisco, CA 16 February 2025 Jeremiah 17:5-10 Psalm 1 1 Corinthians 15:12-20 Luke 6:17-25
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Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2F5 5 Epiphany (Year C) 11:00 a.m. Eucharist Sunday 9 February 2025 Isaiah 6:1-8 Psalm 138 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 Luke 5:1-11 “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets… do not be afraid (Lk. 5).” This week with great emotion my friend Erin said to a group of us, “What do I do?” I take this to mean, “I…
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How do we live with fire? Fire is an essential part of California’s ecology. Humans have been using it to shape the California landscape for thousands of years. But today many Californians’ relationship to fire is one of fear. Obi Kaufmann, author of the best-selling California Field Atlas, now asks: How do we live with fire? What makes fire essent…
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Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2F4 The Feast of the Presentation 11 a.m. Eucharist Sunday 2 February 2025 | Displacing 4 Epiphany Malachi 3:1-4 Psalm 24:7-10 Hebrews 2:14-18 Luke 2:22-40 What exactly is a sermon? What are we doing together and what do we hope happens? This might seem like an unimportant question to ask. In the last two wee…
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Bishop of California The Third Sunday after the Epiphany Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA January 26, 2025 Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10 Psalm 19 1 Corinthians 12:12-13a Luke 4:14-21
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The Second Sunday after the Epiphany January 19, 2025 Grace Cathedral, San Francisco CA Isaiah 62:1-5 Psalm 36:5-10 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 John 2:1-11
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Isaiah 43:1-7 Psalm 29 Acts 8:14-17 Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 1. What stands in the way of having a deeper faith? On August 5, 1949 a crew of fifteen elite US Forest Service smokejumpers, or airborne firefighters, stepped out of their plane above a remote wildfire in Montana. Within an hour all but three of them were dead or mortally burned. They were ca…
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5 January 2025 Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA Jeremiah 31:7-14 Psalm 84:1-12 Ephesians 1:3-6, 15-19a Matthew 2:1-12
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The Rev. Joe Williams 29 December 2024 Grace Cathedral, San Francisco CA Isaiah 60:10-62.3 Psalm 147:13-21 Galatians 3:23-25, 4:4-7 John 1:1-18
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“How silently, how silently the wondrous gift is given! So God imparts to human hearts the blessings of his heaven” (Phillips Brooks). Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2E76 Christmas Eve 11:00 p.m. Eucharist Tuesday 24 December 2024 | Austin Rios’ First Xmas at GC Isaiah 9:2-7 Psalm 96:1-4, 11-13 Titus 2:11-14 Luke 2:1-20 What for you is god? By …
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The Rt. Rev. Ausitn Keith Rios, Bishop of California The Eve of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA Isaiah 62:6-12 Psalm 97:1-2, 6-9, 11-12 Titus 3:4-7 Luke 2:8-20
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The Eve of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ 24 December 2024 - 4 p.m. A Festival of Lessons and Carols Some early childhood Christmases in my native Ohio were spent at my aunt's home in Youngstown, where my father was born. His mother, Grandma Mary, was still on this side of heaven and holding forth from the kitchen, bracciole and hot sausages…
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The Rev. Canon Mary Carter Greene , Canon Pastor Eucharist, Advent 4, - December 22, 2024 Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA Micah 5.2-5a Canticle 15 (Luke 1:46-55) Hebrews 10.5-10 Luke 1:39-45 (46-55)
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The Rev. Canon Anna E. Rossi Canon Precentor and Director of Interfaith Engagement Zephaniah 3:14-20 Philippians 4:4-7 Luke 3:7-18
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“Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be made low… and all flesh shall see the salvation of God” (Luke 3). Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2E75 2 Advent (Year C) 8:30 and 11:00 a.m. Eucharist Sunday 8 December 2024 Baruch 5:1-9 Canticle 16 (Luke 1:68-79) Philippians 1: 3-11 Luke 3:1-6…
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Advent 1 2024 The Rev. Cn. MC Greene 8:30 AM and 11:00 service
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Pope Pius IX instituted today's Feast of Christ the King, or the Reign of Christ, in a 1925 encyclical, a papal letter sent to the bishops of the Roman Church. The feast and its timing was incorporated broadly in Christian churches -- including ours -- through ecumenical and liturgical movements a few decades later. Even if we dismiss the notion of…
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“God we are your children and you love us with a perfect love.” Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2E73, P25 26 Pentecost (28B) 11:00 a.m. and 6 p.m. Eucharist Sunday 17 November 2024 | Stewardship Ingathering Sunday 1 Samuel 1:4-20 Canticle C Heb. 10:11-14, 19-25 Mark 13:1-8
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The Forum with BJ Miller
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1:03:26At the end of our lives, what do we most wish for? For many, it’s simply comfort, respect, love. On November 10, as we celebrate All Souls’ Day at our Choral Eucharist service, please don’t miss the opportunity to hear also from renowned hospice and palliative care specialist, public speaker, and connector BJ Miller. On this day of prayer and remem…
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“[A]nyone who hears my word and believes him who sent me has… passed from death to eternal life"(1 Thess. 4). Sunday 10 November 2024 | Maurice Duruflé Requiem Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2E72 Daniel 12:1-3 Psalm 130 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 John 5:24-27
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The Forum with Patrick Makuakāne
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1:03:14We are thrilled to announce Patrick Makuakāne as our 2024 Artist in Residence. Patrick is a kumu hula (master teacher) whose work blends traditional hula with contemporary music and movements and uplifts Hawaiian culture and history. With his San Francisco-based dance company, Nā Lei Hulu i ka Wēkiu, he has forged his own unique form of hula—hula m…
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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 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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The Forum with Stephanie Sellers
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1:07:43The 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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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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The Forum with Michael Mechanic
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1:05:32What 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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1:05:19Note: 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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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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1:04:37In 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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