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

Newsletter column, July 2021

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Newsletter, July 2021 Bill Yeomans, who does so much to keep our physical plant habitable, on Gordon Guy’s bench. In my last newsletter column, I wrote about how the “After Times” were in sight but the transition to the “new normal” might be rockier than we expected. And indeed, although cases have dropped back to the levels they were at… View Post

Dancing for God

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 10, Year B July 11, 2021 People are dancing through our scriptures this morning. When his daughter Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests; and the King said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it.” David and all the house of Israel were dancing before… View Post

Not without honour

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 14, Year B July 4, 2021 The fire in Lytton, BC, on June 30th “Prophets are not without honour, except in their hometown, and among their own kin, and in their own house.”  This Greco-Roman proverb, quoted by Jesus in response to the critics in his own hometown, is a variation on the more straightforward axiom,… View Post

The hemorrhaging woman

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Grace Pritchard Burson The Young Clergy Women Project, Conference 2016 Service of Healing & Communion Tuesday, July 12, 2016 This is a sermon preached at the 2016 conference of what was then called the Young Clergy Women Project (now Young Clergy Women International) in Boston, MA. I would preach it differently now, five years on, with a much improved understanding… View Post

Goliath’s fears

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 12 (National Indigenous Day of Prayer), Year B June 20, 2021 “Life of David,” The Morgan Leaf of the Winchester Bible, ca. 1150–80.  J. Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (Image from the Metropolitan Museum of Art website) “The Lord will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in time of trouble.” Thus begins our portion… View Post