All Saints’, Dorval Easter V, Year A May 3, 2026 Part of the Alberta baptism working group. Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation – if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. Just over eighteen years ago, as the parent of a two-month-old, I preached a… View Post
Looking sad and being sad with Jesus
All Saints’, Dorval Easter III, Year A April 19, 2026 Anne Simpson and friends at the 2024 Christmas bazaar And he said to them, “What are you discussing with each other while you walk along?” They stood still, looking sad. What does sad look like? What does sad feel like? When we’re first teaching children about their emotions (and other… View Post
In the garden
All Saints’, Dorval Easter Sunday, Year A April 5, 2026 Icon of Mary Magdalene and Christ the Gardener, Kelly Lattimore, 2024 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus. Jesus said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you looking for?” Supposing him to… View Post
Defying expectations
All Saints’, Dorval Great Vigil of Easter, Year A April 4, 2026 Russian icon of the Anastasis, c. 1700, Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht. Wikimedia Commons. As you know if you were here on the third Sunday of Advent, I am not a fan of AI, at least not the “large language models” that power apps like Claude and ChatGPT and which… View Post
What does confession have to do with Good Friday?
All Saints’, Dorval Good Friday, Year A April 3, 2026 Christ and the Penitent Thief, Kerkerkapelle, Bad Tölz, Kalvarienberg. Wikimedia Commons. For the past few months, I’ve been working with a couple of other clergy on a new catechism for the Anglican Church of Canada. A catechism is a list of questions and answers about the church’s beliefs, designed to… View Post
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