Joseph Peters-Mathews
The Rev. Joseph Peters-Mathews is the vicar of St. Hilda St. Patrick Episcopal Church in Edmonds, Wash., where he has served since 2019. Joseph was ordained priest in 2012 and has served on the staffs of the presiding bishop and bishop of California. He is married to Brandon and they have two children, Topher and Finny. Joseph has written for Sermons that Work, Earth & Altar, and Modern Metanoia. Joseph is an alumnus of General Theological Seminary and Troy University.
Sermons and Bible Studies
God’s Grace, All Saints’ Day (C) – 2025
[RCL] Daniel 7:1-3,15-18; Psalm 149; Ephesians 1:11-23; Luke 6:20-31 The redactors of our “new” Book of Common Prayer — which is almost 50 years old — probably didn’t imagine that most of our congregations would only observe All Saints’ Day on the Sunday following. On page 15 of the prayer book, they write, “All Saints’ […]
Bestowing Life, Easter 4 (C) – 2025
[RCL] Acts 9:36-43; Psalm 23; Revelation 7:9-17; John 10:22-30 Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death, and upon those in the tombs bestowing life. Psalm 23 — and the idea of the Good Shepherd — saturate Western society. Not that that’s a bad thing! “My Shepherd Will Supply My Need,” “The […]
Vulnerable, Proper 20 (B) – 2018
Mark’s Gospel was the first written. It is the shortest. Likely it was a one-person play, something that was first memorized and shared via oral tradition. Only in time did it go from one-person dramatic storytelling to gospel text, written down, copied, and eventually read throughout the Church and the world. Mark’s Greek is quick […]
The Good Shepherd, Easter 4 (B) – 2018
Alleluia! Christ is risen! Today’s gospel text uses an image that may be lost on many of us, an image that we may know from childhood stories — but not firsthand experience. Jesus, living in the first century, talking to people who know livestock and agriculture in their hearts and bones, tells his disciples, his […]
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