Category: Sermons

• Sometimes it snows in April

  I grew up in the northeast, where life is lived in four seasons. There’s summer, when it is hot and humid, sunny, and bright, equally tiring and energizing. There’s fall, with crisp air, apple picking, and landscapes adorned by trees of both evergreen and ever changing colors of leaves. There’s winter, when the joys of…

  Simone Monique Barnes

  April 22, 2021

  Americana, Arts, Black History and Culture, Literary Arts, Performing Arts, Sermons, Simone Monique Barnes

  Emotions, Feelings, Grief, Lyrics, music, Pandemic, Poetry, Prince, racism, Snow, Spring

• Rejection, Rejected, Respond and Responsibility: Pauli Murray sermon

  Rejection, Rejected, Respond, and Responsibility: Pauli Murray sermon given by Simone Monique Barnes at St. James’ Episcopal Church, Austin TX, USA Sunday, September 22, 2019 during the 8am, 10:15am, and 5:30pm services By the rivers of Babylon Where he sat down And there he wept When he remembered Zion But the wicked carried us away…

  Simone Monique Barnes

  October 7, 2019

  Americana, Arts, Black History and Culture, Church, Ethnic, Ethnic, Regional and National Identity, Literary Arts, Regional and National Identity, Sermons, Simone Monique Barnes

  church, church women, culture, Episcopal, History, LGBTQIA+, Pauli Murray, queer, sermon, transgender