This week we continue to honor Pride in the Pulpit with a rousing word from Rev. Ashley DeTar Birt. What can a genealogy reveal about the stories we tell? The intersection of legacies this important Sunday bring a cloud of witnesses all around us.

This week, Rev. Jennifer Aull is our guest preacher for our Pride in the Pulpit series. How does mystery play a role in both agriculture and parables? The growth of a seed has much to teach us as we live into the action, patience, and hope of the kindom yet to come.

This week, Rev. Stan Sloan is West End’s first guest preacher during Pride Month. As we consider the development of LGBTQIA+ rights, we do so knowing that queer progress will never be complete unless everyone is brought along for the journey. We worship God who walks the great tightrope and teaches us to love.

This Pentecost Sunday we welcome interim music director Paul Vasile to teach us about three gifts within this sacred day.

This week Rev. William Critzman unearths the Scriptural precedent for work done by committee. As West End begins to sing a new song of great discernment and hope, how can we trust the creation and re-creation all around us?

On this day, Rev. William Critzman reminds us of the simple complexity of motherhood. As we celebrate the mothers in our lives we remember how Mary cared for her son. A mother’s love can change the world.

This week, Rev. William Critzman reminds us that resurrection can be found all around us. What have we gained and lost during this pandemic season? God is with us and ready to help us prune our lives, ready to help us recreate, and resurrect.

This week, Rev. William Critzman connects our ears and hearts to all we’ve heard this past year. With God’s help we have much to learn about good shepherds, the behavior of flocks, and the idols that we name and dismantle together.

With the support of community wisdom Rev. William Critzman explores the space between rejection and resurrection. As we celebrate this Easter season, we do so knowing that God always has new things in store.

What stories stay with you on the road of life? How do you continue to find hope? Rev. Bridget Anthony guides West End through moments of awakening, grace and God’s unceasing love as we build tomorrow’s brand new day.

This Easter Sunday Rev. William Critzman explores the sacred metaphor and symbolism of both this day and this season of resurrection. As we feel the new life all around us, we know we cannot go back!

What will they shout next? Rev. William Critzman guides West End on this journey together from today’s Hosannas into each of Holy Week’s sacred moments.

As we consider all that has occurred, been lost and changed over the past year the Collegiate Church of New York stands together in worship and prayer as a church unified.

“If our body is the temple…” With this week’s word Rev. William Critzman invites us to envision and focus on the temple we co-create even now as the body of Christ.

We know that it takes a village, but whom in the village do we name? Today, Rev. Bridget Anthony bridges Black History Month and Women’s History Month as West End Church lifts up the names of Black women who formed each of our lives.

Grace may appear as a rainbow; it may appear when things don’t go as planned. Rev. William Critzman reminds the West End community of the shimmering colors of God’s love, God’s promises, and how the journey itself forms us.

The space between transfiguration and the dusty certainties of life can be hard to grasp. Rev. William Critzman bridges this space as he threads love through the many celebrations this weekend and the world yet to come.

Like the warmth of a blanket, the love of those who came before us gird our souls. As West End celebrates Black History Month, Rev. Bridget Anthony guides us to the ongoing love of Black women who helped form her.

Why do we make art? What of authority? Rev. William Critzman guides us through love, art-making, and the sacred nature of each as we consider the artists we are becoming.

In our nation and in our church, change is inevitable. During this transitional moment — this Sea Change — Rev. William Critzman reminds us of God’s eternal promises when the sands shift.