Writings and Sermons
The lessons can be found by clicking here. I worked most closely with 1 Timothy 1:12-17. ‘Darmok and Jalad at Tenagra’ (2nd episode, 5th season of Star Trek the Next Generation) is about understanding and translation. Listen:
Read MoreLink: Community, Sept 8. 2013 Summary of what I was saying and why: I’ve spent years now wondering about the question I posed: what kind of community lets the tower go unfinished and laughs at the builder? Is that the community we are/want to be? Then I wanted to create a space for St Peter’s […]
Read MoreThe lessons can be found by clicking here. I worked most closely with Luke 14:25-33. Unfinished towers and warring kings–which may be about neither. This is an interactive sermon, I hope it can be heard and understood. My apologies if not. Listen: Notes Bene: >The Anglican Church of Canada uses the Roman numbering system. So […]
Read MoreIn the last month almost everything has changed. I’m living in a new city and country; part of a new Diocese in a new Province, rector of a new parish, and settling into my new apartment. Everything is more than fine. Not only is the dog still with me, but Edmonton, my parish, and the […]
Read MoreThe lessons can be found by clicking here. I worked most closely with Luke 14:1,7-14. Jesus is at a Pharisee’s house for dinner and comments on who tries to sit where. How do we signify importance and how should we? Listen:
Read MoreLink: Crazy Thin Spaces, Senior Camp 2013 Summary of what I was saying and why: The end of Senior High is always emotional. Camp is often a huge part of these kids’ lives and how they learn to be themselves. The priest who had been there for the week hadn’t left any lessons or instructions/requests […]
Read MoreI had the opportunity to preach at the closing Eucharist of Senior High Camp. The lessons were 2 Samuel 6:1-23 (David dancing) and Luke 4:14-30 (Jesus reading Isaiah in the synagogue). The first lesson read turned out to be from 2 Samuel 2–slight miss-communication there. I invited the campers to carry out with them a […]
Read MoreThere are few universal rules, especially at Camp. A person is running. Running can lead to falling—especially in a world of unpaved paths, gravel, roots, large rocks, and done in an often ungainly body. So we don’t run. Except when we do (some games and activities, and in the case of emergencies). So we can’t […]
Read MoreUnfinished Thoughts: Some combination of these ideas: Plumb lines, surveying and the challenge of being human( ie getting things wrong) A bit of Paul (Rope climbing bit/-use the rope, stay close to the wall, belay partner) Don’t forget the stories (people)–this is where I would have tied in the Gospel and, given the week, brought […]
Read MoreLink: Souvenirs Summary of what I was saying and why: We read Jacob’s ladder (Genesis 28:10-22) and the Tranfiguration (Mark 9:2-8). Saturday is the last day of Camp, our theme is Be Imitators of God. I often hear how Camp is the place people best experience God (good) or how Camp is really their only […]
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