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

    Grace has always been fascinated by birth and babies, especially since her youngest sister was born ... View Post

    Doula

There is life after Christmas

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We’re (rightly) focused right now on preparing for Lessons & Carols, the Christmas pageant, Christmas basket delivery, and Christmas Eve services, but here’s a heads up about some exciting things happening in January and February! The Montreal Diocesan Theological College is offering another online course running from January 28 to February 18, this time on the theme of “Wholeness and… View Post

New growth from an old stump

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All Saints by the Lake Advent II, Year A December 8, 2019 Tree of Jesse, illuminated manuscript, Würzburg, 13th century I’ll be preaching three times this Advent (no sermon on the 22nd, the day of the Christmas pageant) and as I was looking at this week’s readings and then ahead to next week’s, I realized that the themes of the… View Post

Whatever happened to that survey?

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Thanks to all those who filled out the survey on worship in November!  We received 38 responses and many interesting comments. If it seems like not much is changing as a result of the survey, that’s for several reasons that I want to explore in this blog post. First of all, a few things are already changing.  We heard loud… View Post

Swords into ploughshares?

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All Saints by the Lake Advent I, Year A December 1, 2019 Bob Bergner dismantling a gun to be refashioned into garden tools. Some of you remember the Rev’d Bob Bergner, who trained at Montreal Dio and was Ralph Leavitt’s curate at St. George’s, Place du Canada, before moving to the US as a hospital chaplain.  In one of those… View Post

Pastoral visiting

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The cross made by Leonard MacArthur for the occasions when I visit him at home. Visiting the sick is an essential Christian ministry. It’s one of the works of mercy mentioned in Matthew 25, along with feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless and visiting those in prison; in the letter of James, we are told, “Are any among you sick? … View Post