All Saints’ Park Slope

"As Christians, we are indeed citizens and resident aliens at the same time. We are residents of Brooklyn, yet our citizenship is in the kingdom of God, and our loyalty is ultimately to a very different king." 

"Jesus doesn’t tell us these about these horrible things to scare us. He tells us about them because they are real. So the question isn’t: how do I avoid them? It’s: what helped me endure for the last 6 years—and what will help me endure for 6 more?"

"Sainthood isn’t a solo venture. It’s a collective event. Your sainthood contributes to the saintliness of the fellowship, and the fellowship enfolds you in its holiness."

“As we remember our loved ones tonight, perhaps we can sense how very thin is the veil that separates us. Perhaps we can sense the luminosity of their spirits, like sparks in the stubble, like candles in the night.”

"Throughout his life, Zacchaeus had only ever known scarcity, and maximizing his own personal profit at the expense of everything else. And then he met Jesus." 

"Humility is something that only people who are secure in themselves can accomplish."

"It’s remarkable that in 2022 we still treat women with husbands differently from women without husbands. But Jesus sees the strength in you, lifts you up, and encourages you to be persistent."

"And if we are unsettled spiritually in what can feel like a strange land, it is for the better, because we have seen a glimpse of the world as it should be beyond the one which is." 

"Isn’t it amazing that God chooses to communicate with us not just in grand gestures, but also in the tiniest seeds of faith?"

"Wealth is the root of all sorts of evil because it causes the people who have too much of it, in so many cases, to deny the reality of their own contingency."