All Saints’ Park Slope

The Rev. Jennifer VanCooten Webster - Eighth Sunday after Pentecost (July 31, 2022)

"Why would this rich person make such a poor decision? How does this decision cause him not to be rich toward God? Yes, he's rich, but what does he do with his riches?"

The Rev. Steven D. Paulikas - Seventh Sunday after Pentecost (July 24, 2022)

"But you see, none of this activity that shapes so much of our lives is anywhere to be found in the Bible. Instead, Jesus tells us to embrace this day; to turn to god as the creator of all things, and to ask for something so simple: 'give us this day our daily bread'." 

The Rev. Steven D. Paulikas - Sixth Sunday after Pentecost (July 17, 2022)

"Jesus knows that Martha is a good person. Jesus just wants her to understand that herself. Jesus wants Martha to give herself the gift of sitting at his feet from time to time, when he happens to arrive at her house."

The Rev. Spencer Cantrell - Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (July 10, 2022)

“And why is it that when we see the Good Samaritan, we see and celebrate him as this kind of a Lone Ranger figure, who against all odds and without anyone else in the mix, is jumping in as the sole hero to help and aid and console? Why do we think it’s only his responsibility? Why do we think that this is a good thing?”

The Rev. Steven D. Paulikas - Fourth Sunday after Pentecost (July 3, 2022)

"It's a reason to rejoice. It's a reason to be glad. That you have been called to this high work. That you have been given the strength and the power of the words that Jesus says in the Gospel to do this work." 

The Rev. Steven D. Paulikas - Third Sunday after Pentecost (June 26, 2022)

“Our rights have changed since we gathered last week. But the Gospel doesn't promise things will always stay the same. It does promise that if we follow Jesus and proclaim the Kingdom of God, he will always be by our side.”

The Rev. Spencer Cantrell - Second Sunday after Pentecost (June 19, 2022)

“It is just true that there are times like these for all of us, where grace and mercy and healing-received come to us as the cost of our certainty, of our cynicism, of our stability; that the abundant life and better world we hope for runs through a dark abyss of the unknown, and that part of the life of faith is cultivating the ability to look into this darkness, not run away from it; and to find, in doing so, that we see the face of Jesus, stepping off the boat and calling us by name.”

The Rev. Steven D. Paulikas - First Sunday after Pentecost: Trinity Sunday (June 12, 2022)

"But at its heart, the reason we keep talking about the Trinity as one of the central doctrines of our faith, is because it is our particular way of describing what love is."

The Day of Pentecost (Acts 2:1-21) — Read in Belize Creole by Althea Leslie

The Rev. Spencer Cantrell — Day of Pentecost/Whitsunday (June 5, 2022)

“We say that we feel the Spirit when, in our moments of mourning and loss and despondency … when it seems like there is no way forward, when we are broken and exhausted and weary; and then something, somehow, breaks through — a fresh spirit of justice, of truth, of hope, understanding across those barriers of language and culture and suspicion of the other, breaks through.”