Reconciliation, Healing, and Hope: Sermons from Washington National Cathedral

by Jan Naylor Cope (Editor), Jon Meacham (Foreword by), Michael B. Curry (With), Randolph Marshall Hollerith (With), Mariann Edgar Budde (With)

Overview

Powerful sermons from Washington National Cathedral that inspire and a foreword by John Meacham.

Through their sermons, Cathedral clergy and guest preachers such as Jon Meacham, Kelly Brown Douglas, and Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry share inspiring words. Collectively, they offer lasting guidance for difficult times, reinforcing that even in the midst of loss and chaos, God is at work among us, lifting us up and giving us hope for the future.

Topics include hope, faith during times of distress, love, grief, and the presence of God. With a foreword by Jon Meacham.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781640654846
Publisher:	Church Publishing, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/22/2022
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jan Naylor Cope is the Provost of Washington National Cathedral. Prior to ordination, she served on the senior staff of the White House and later led her nationally recognized executive search firm. She is a frequent guest preacher and speaker nationally and internationally. She lives in Washington DC.

Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and writer, is the Rogers Chair in the American Presidency and co-chair of the Project on Unity and American Democracy at Vanderbilt University. As Canon Historian of Washington National Cathedral, he preaches and leads public conversations several times a year on issues of faith, spirituality, and civic life.

The Most Rev. Michael B. Curry is the Episcopal Church’s 27th Presiding Bishop. He was the Bishop of North Carolina from 2000 to 2015. Bishop Curry has a national preaching and teaching ministry and is a regular on TV and radio and a frequent speaker at conferences around the country. His books include Crazy Christians: A Call to Follow Jesus; Following the Way of Jesus: Church’s Teachings for a Changing World; and Love Is the Way: Holding on to Hope in Troubling Times.

Randolph Marshall Hollerith is the eleventh Dean of Washington National Cathedral who has reoriented the institution toward radical welcome and hospitality. He grew up in nearby Alexandria, Virginia, often visiting the Cathedral as a boy during its construction.

MARIANN EDGAR BUDDE is the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and serves as president of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation. Prior to this, she served as rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Minneapolis. She earned her masters in divinity and doctor of ministry degrees from Virginia Theological Seminary. The author of Gathering the Fragments: Preaching as Spiritual Practice, her sermons have been published in books and journals.

Kelly Brown Douglas is an Episcopal priest and graduate (Master of Divinity degree, doctoral degree) of Union Theological Seminary in New York City where she is now inaugural Dean of Episcopal Divinity School at Union Seminary. She lives in New York City.

Dana Colley Corsello is the Canon Vicar of Washington National Cathedral and leader and pastor to the Cathedral Congregation. Previously, she served as the Rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, San Francisco, where she was called to resurrect a prominent but dying parish.

Leonard L. Hamlin, Sr. is the Canon Missioner and Minister of Equity and Inclusion at Washington National Cathedral. Previously, he served as the Pastor of Macedonia Baptist Church in Arlington, Virginia, for twenty-two years.

Rosemarie Logan Duncan is the Canon for Worship at Washington National Cathedral. Prior to ordained ministry, she worked as a church musician and as a clinical psychologist. She is known as a gifted liturgist, strong administrator, and caring pastor.

Patrick Keyser is the Priest Associate at Washington National Cathedral. He works with the Canon for Worship in assisting with liturgical planning and with the Canon Vicar in supporting the life of the cathedral congregation, especially with Christian formation and pastoral care.

Table of Contents

Foreword / Jon Meacham

Introduction / Jan Naylor Cope

1. The Pandemic and Our Call to Be Reconcilers

Pentecost in a Pandemic / Michael Bruce Curry

Repairers of the Breach / Randolph Marshall Hollerith

2. A Lent and Easter Season Like No Other

Where Are You? / Kelly Brown Douglas

Seeing with New Eyes / Mariann Edgar Budde

Spirit of Hope / Randolph Marshall Hollerith

A Season of Disorientation / Jan Naylor Cope

Not All Resurrections Happen in Three Days / Dana Colley Corsello

It’s Easter Anyway / Michael Bruce Curry

Christ Walks with Us / Randolph Marshall Hollerith

Our Master Class on Grief / Mariann Edgar Budde

To Watch and Wait / Jon Meacham

3. Anything but Ordinary Time

White Soul Work / Randolph Marshall Hollerith

Hope in the Midst of Reality / Jan Naylor Cope

Life-Changing Faith / Leonard L. Hamlin Sr.

Who Do You Say I Am? Our Answer Matters / Rosemarie Logan Duncan

More Than a Feeling / Mariann Edgar Budde

Kingdom Economics Are Not Wall Street Economics / Jan Naylor Cope

The Grapes of Wrath / Dana Colley Corsello

Stepping up to the Plate / Mariann Edgar Budde

What Shall I Render? / Leonard L. Hamlin Sr.

I Sought My Neighbor / Randolph Marshall Hollerith
The Solid Rock / Michael Bruce Curry
What It Means to Pray for Healing, Unity, and Hope / Mariann Edgar Budde Holding on to Hope / Michael Bruce Curry
Gospel Values / Randolph Marshall Hollerith
Finding Hope in God Our Home / Rosemarie Logan Duncan
The Story We Write / Kelly Brown Douglas

4. Time to Be of a New Mind: Healers

The Gift of Your Rose / Mariann Edgar Budde

Tears of Love / Mariann Edgar Budde

Word Made Flesh / Patrick L. Keyser

Jesus and Mary’s Relationship Status: It’s Complicated / Dana Colley Corsello

Time to Be of a New Mind / Randolph Marshall Hollerith

Repairers of the Breach in 2021 / Jan Naylor Cope

One Moment Can Change Everything / Leonard L. Hamlin Sr.

5. Hope on the Horizon

The Cost of Love / Randolph Marshall Hollerith

Rejoice and Remember / Rosemarie Logan Duncan

Real Love / Rosemarie Logan Duncan

Resurrection Begins While It’s Still Dark / Mariann Edgar Budde

Hope on the Horizon / Jan Naylor Cope

Life Laid Down / Patrick L. Keyser

God Is Love! / Dana Colley Corsello

There Is Work to Be Done / Leonard L. Hamlin Sr.

We Need a Revolution / Michael Bruce Curry

Contributors

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Editorial Reviews

This vibrant collection leaps off the page, offering balm in Gilead, renewal of identity, and God’s promise to restore the years the swarming locust has eaten. These are words of solidarity, courage, and hope. If you want to learn wisdom from the wilderness of the pandemic, this is the place to begin.”
–Samuel Wells, Vicar, St Martin-in-the-Fields, London

“Explicitly Christian yet relevant to all children of God, these sermons speak of COVID and conscience, racism and reconciliation, piety and politics. They provide comfort, inspiration, challenge, and sometimes needed indictment.”
–Amy-Jill Levine, Rabbi Stanley M. Kessler Distinguished Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, Hartford International Universityfor Religion and Peace

“The sermons in Reconciliation, Healing, and Hope shine as beacons of preaching excellence during a dark time of suffering, death, and fear.”
–Dr. A. Gary Shilling, Founder of The Episcopal Preaching Foundation

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