The Rev Alissa: Sermons

The Fifth Sunday of Lent: How Do We Live?

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2200227/fan_mail/new] "The real question is how do we live, knowing that grief, death, and loss are part of the story? text: John 11:1-45 preached for Church of the Resurrection, Hopewell Junction, NY

The First Sunday in Lent: The Temptation to Stop Being Human

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2200227/fan_mail/new] "The question before us is not what we will give up, but what kind of human being we will choose to be." text:Matthew 4:1-11 preached with All Saints Episcopal Church, Manhattan on February 22, 2026

The Fifth SundayAfter the Epiphany: What We Were Made For

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2200227/fan_mail/new] "What is so interesting to me in this is that surrounded by needs, and wants and longings, Jesus looks at his weird and wonderful congregation and doesn’t tell them to get something, or to become something or to do something – he tells them who, in his view, they already are. " Text: Matthew 5:13-20, Isaiah 58:1-9a, [9b-12] Preached with The Chapel of St. John the Divine, Tomkins Cove, NY

The Fourth Sunday After Epiphany: Attention

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2200227/fan_mail/new] "We cannot expect our religion to save us if we do not remember our relationship with God and take seriously God’s desire for justice." Text: Micah 6:1-8, Matthew 5:1-12 preached for St Ignatius of Antioch, Manhattan, on Feb 1, 2026

The First Sunday of Advent: The Mystery Box

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2200227/fan_mail/new] "There are things that we will never know. That can be discouraging, but it can also be motivating... I don't love it. I don't love this idea that we will never know. But this is how we begin our Advent season: in the strangeness, and the darkness, and just the straight up honesty that there are things we will never know." Text: Matthew 24:36-44 Preached at All Saints, Manhattan on November 30, 2025