All Saints, Dorval III Epiphany, Year B January 21, 2024 Who doesn’t know the story of Jonah and the whale? Along with Noah and the Ark, it’s one of the Bible stories we most like to illustrate and present to children – apparently there’s something about stories involving God, boats, storms, and animals. The idea of a human being swallowed… View Post
(At least) three kinds of knowledge
All Saints, Dorval II Epiphany, Year B January 14, 2024 John Singleton Copley, “Samuel Relating to Eli the Judgments of God upon Eli’s House,” 1780. I confess: Whenever this set of lessons comes around in our three-year lectionary cycle, I am less than thrilled to see the lesson from I Corinthians. The passages from Samuel and John are so rich… View Post
The God who needs us
All Saints by the Lake Christmas Eve, Year B December 24, 2023 Amanda Seebeck as the Donkey in the Christmas Pageant, with her children Jack D’Entremont (shepherd) and Sarah D’Entremont (baby Jesus), December 17. *** And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no… View Post
The child in the rubble and John the Baptist
All Saints by the Lake Advent II, Year B December 10, 2023 Munther Isaac is the pastor of Christmas Lutheran Church, in Bethlehem, in the West Bank. Last Sunday, he posted a remarkable picture to his congregation’s Facebook account – the picture you can see in the slide accompanying this sermon. It shows this year’s Christmas crèche at Christmas Lutheran:… View Post
“On call” for Christ
All Saints by the Lake Advent I, Year B December 3, 2023 [Robin Stuchbery, son of Ben (Incumbent in St.-Agathe and Arundel) and his wife Erica, who very politely waited to be born last December 18 until his parents’ doula had finished directing the Christmas pageant] It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home and… View Post
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