Grace Pritchard Burson

  • Pastor

    The Rev. Grace Pritchard Burson is a lifelong member of the Episcopal Church, a branch of the ... View Post

    Pastor

  • Farmer

    As a seminary student, Grace experienced a crisis of faith related to the slow-motion environmental ... View Post

    Farmer

  • Writer

    When Grace was a child, much of her time was spent at her mother’s Hermes manual typewriter (and ... View Post

    Writer

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    Check out Grace's full doula business website here! Grace has always been fascinated by birth and ... View Post

    Doula

Eating your fill

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All Saints’, Dorval Harvest Thanksgiving, Year C October 12, 2025 Blurry 2006 digital camera photo of me and my fellow travelers in our compartment on the train to Kyiv. What does it mean to “eat your fill”? Twenty years ago, when I was living in Germany, the university chorus that I was a member of did an exchange with our… View Post

Hard, not impossible

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 27, Year C October 5, 2025 The sign for Clementine’s Peace Rug. I want to tell you a story. It comes from my friend and colleague Andrea Roske-Metcalfe, a brilliant Lutheran pastor, who wrote it three and a half years ago, right after the invasion of Ukraine, as part of her commentary about a teacher strike… View Post

The mammon of unrighteousness

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 25, Year C September 21, 2025 This was a tough one. I preached it twice, at 8 and 10 am, and it wasn’t quite the same sermon on each occasion. If you perceive gaps or have questions, leave a comment – it would certainly make a nice change from deleting endless identical spam comments on this… View Post

Holy Cross in the Season of Creation

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Year C, Holy Cross September 14, 2025 And once again, I’m encountering a preaching situation that’s new to me, even almost 20 years into this career. In the US church that I come from, Holy Cross Day does not take precedence of a Sunday; today is simply the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost. But the… View Post

Makers in the image of the Maker

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Year C, Proper 23 September 7, 2025 Every year at Messy Church, we begin with the story of Creation and Adam and Eve. God creates the world, earth and sky and sea, sun, moon and stars, birds and fish and animals, and finally humans. The script with which I tell the felt board story… View Post