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

  • Doula

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

    Doula

Encountering the Messiah

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All Saints’, Dorval Lent IV, Year A March 15, 2026 “Christ and the Pauper”, Andrei Mironov Today’s Gospel reading is the third of four very long selections from the Gospel of John. They come from the third, fourth, ninth and eleventh chapters respectively, but they are clearly written to echo and interact with each other: key words and themes keep… View Post

Daughter Samaria

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All Saints’, Dorval Lent III, Year A March 8, 2026 Icon of St. Photini, St. Michael’s Orthodox Church, Cleveland, OH When I was a teenager, my spirituality was focused strongly, not to say obsessively, on the image of the holy city in the prophets.  As a girl emerging into adulthood, I found “daughter Zion” a tremendously compelling and relatable character. … View Post

All the families of the earth

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Lent II, Year A March 1, 2026 The Rev’d Laurie Brock (now Laurie Pankey), the Rev’d Jaime Dias, and me, after Jaime gave Laurie and me the Camino blessing at St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church, Porto, Portugal, August 2023   Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred… View Post

The ministry of presence

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Last Epiphany, Year A February 15, 2026 Me and Kristy Barnes of Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church, Minneapolis, in the church kitchen making lunches for teachers at a local elementary school targeted by ICE, Wednesday, February 11 (yes, that is several pounds of chocolate buttercream frosting. Sometimes ministry is delicious!) One of the things… View Post

Becoming people of the Psalms

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Epiphany V, Year A February 8, 2026 Incipit of Psalm 1, from the 10th-century Anglo-Saxon Ramsey Psalter We should probably talk more about the Psalms. The director of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, which was providing the scholarship that paid my seminary tuition, was a medieval musicologist who was obsessed with the Psalms…. View Post