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When the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was chosen to lead the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, “he saw an opportunity to practice the revolution of love that began with Jesus,” preaches the Rev. Canon John Thompson-Quartey of the Diocese of Atlanta. Though he wasn’t pursuing it, God called King to national leadership. “I believe that the legacy Dr. Martin Luther King left us is one of courage and one of faith.” His pursuit of a world rooted in justice was cut short, but “the dream never died.” It’s the same vision we work toward today.

What does Christian leadership look like right now? It’s quieter than you might think: We’re called to live out the message we preach and to treat others as we would want to be treated. True leadership does not come by force; rather, says Mother Kristin Kaulbach Miles, it’s “the slow and faithful work to justice.”

Father Michael Bird, Trinity’s vicar, delivers the sermon on Christmas Day.

Father Phil Jackson, Trinity’s rector, reminds us of the reason for the season: God’s love come to us in the person of Jesus Christ.

When it came to the long-awaited Messiah, “John [the Baptist] expected judgment,” one coming in majesty to overturn the politics and regimes of his day, preaches the Rev. Phil Jackson. “And what Jesus brought instead was a certain gentleness.” John anticipated fire and power, yet Jesus shows up in his community, not in retaliation, but bringing healing and freedom through simple acts of love. “That is where the Messiah comes,” says Father Phil. “That is where Jesus lives.”

“None of us are entirely good or entirely bad,” preaches the Most Rev. Sean Rowe, presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church. “All of us have those things about our lives we’d like to change.” But we don’t need to lose heart. For God comes to us “at all times and in all places” with a “brightness of love” that melts away everything that weighs us down until the only thing left of us ­— and the world — is pure love.

The weeks leading up to Christmas are about slowing down and paying attention to “the love of God at work in the world,” preaches the Rev. Kristin Kaulbach Miles. Through our community, God helps us see the goodness that’s already all around us. “May we look for beauty in the quiet light of Advent — and rest in it.”

In a world marred by injustice, despair, and hatred, we are called to emulate the hospitality, forgiveness, and love Jesus embodied on the cross, says Father Jorge Ortiz. “Jesus’s radical expression of love is the source of our own Christian hope.”