Writings and Sermons
This year I got to offer a homily at the Westmount Christian Council’s, our local ecumenical group, service for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The texts were Exodus 15:1-21, Psalm 118, Romans 8:12-27, Mark 5:21-43. I read Exodus and my sermon went somewhere I wasn’t expecting. Listen:
Read MoreMorsels & Stories: I talked about the Church calendar, the primacy of Sundays and transferring feasts. This was anticipating our patronal feast celebration next week. Sermon: Jesus offers a task list today, “Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons.” How do we respond to those charges when we can’t do […]
Read MoreI’ve started doing short education bit before the sermon called Morsels and Stories which is also recorded. This week’s was on the Baptismal Covenant. This morning Samuel lists all of the things a king would take. What does it mean when God asks us to give a similar list? The lessons can be found […]
Read MoreIt’s been a rough week for Edmonton. We had the largest mass murder in our history. Who is God, who do we need God to be in the midst of this? The lessons can be found by clicking here. I worked with John 1:1-18 and the news story I link to above. Listen:
Read MoreI started seminary the fall after I graduated college. I moved across the country and, as it happened, away from a Church situation that was…unhealthy…for me. It had been difficult for more than a year before I left. I felt I had little community at my Church; I was not being fed spiritually. I even […]
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 MoreLink: Proper 28, 11-18-12 Summary of what I was saying and why: I’m constantly drawn to the assertiveness of Hannah, with Eli but also with God. Part of not being given a spirit of timidity is learning how to identify and ask for “those good things which we dare not, or in our blindness cannot” […]
Read MorePart of what I inherited when I came to the Church I serve was a labyrinth with a Peace Pole in the middle. Due to a variety of reasons, we now worship in a space not near them. So I found out via email that our pole had recently been vandalized. The four sides of […]
Read MoreI was as unprepared as any of us ever are; I was as prepared as all of us are. A seminarian doing CPE, serving the sick, the dying, the struggling. In CPE, sometimes you stumble across people who needs you and sometimes someone (usually a nurse) will page you for a patient. I don’t remember […]
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