Yes, are living through a time of great upheaval, but don’t lose the horizon. Don’t forget that Christians are a people of hope, and often joy is our best protest. Don’t forget to imagine ways of surviving, and thriving, and defending our neighbors right to survive and thrive.

On the Sunday after the election, the Rev. Mike Angell preaches: We will face what is to come with wild and foolish grace. We will pray that God will grant us wisdom and courage. If you need a minute to grieve. That’s okay. But also know, as Howard Thurman told us, ours is a faith that teaches us how to survive. We will survive. And we will become the love-spreading difference-makers our world again so desperately needs.

On All Saints Day, two days before the election, the rector preaches: The saints have a way of reminding us that our moment is just that, our moment. There have been moments like this before. There have been moments when hate has held sway over a large portion of the population. There have been times when violence and threats of violence were all around. The saints helped us survive. The saints helped chart the way through.

Reflecting on his recent heart attack, the Rev. Lee Lowery shares the story of a friend who said, "God's not done with you yet," and shares he believes God's not done with anybody in here yet. Everybody in here has a ministry and a mission. Everybody in here can serve. Everybody in here can love their neighbor.

“What we need, then, rather desperately, are examples of communities operating under another kind of power, a power that emerges from the bottom up and which is linked to an abiding sense of friendship to the most vulnerable and service to a larger vision.”

Does Jesus ask all of us to give up all of our wealth?

Paul Hanneman preaches on the feast of St. Francis and says, in part, "Jesus is bidding us look beyond the borders of our fields, whatever they might be, but on the borders of our lands and our homes and our bank accounts and investments."

Today we hear the story of Michael defeating the dragon. Today we tell ourselves again that the angels are stronger than the demons, that love is more powerful than hate.