Rosanne Harrison and Margaret Beattie at Rosanne’s farewell party, July 18 The last time I wrote a report to Corporation, it was March 10. Just a scant few days before lockdown started, and yet the schedule and concerns I described in reporting on the prior four weeks seem like they come from another world entirely. What work and life look… View Post
Weeds in expected places, and blessings in unexpected ones
All Saints’, Dorval Proper 16, Year A July 19, 2020 My chickens, 2014. I have a friend and ministry colleague who lives in Baltimore and is deeply involved in community gardening endeavours. He remarked on Facebook earlier this week: “I was working in the garden this morning with a man who is an ecology journalist. He said that historians have… View Post
Guest sermon from Dion Lewis!
Ron Finley, “Gangsta Gardener” and community leader in South Los Angeles Here are the readings for today. Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks Compassion on this world, Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good, Yours are the hands, with which… View Post
Systems of sin, systems of salvation
All Saints’, Dorval Proper 14, Year A July 5, 2020 William Blake, The Temptation of Eve We come with self-inflicted pains of broken trust and chosen wrong; half-free, half-bound by inner chains; by social forces swept along; by powers and systems close confined; yet seeking hope for humankind. Paul’s lament in the final portion of the seventh chapter… View Post
Moving toward reopening
This week, it’s starting to feel like maybe we’re making real progress back to “normal”. Peter is in day camp, I’m working in the office again, and just now I walked to Non Solo Pane for a pastry, just like in the old days. Coming back into the office on Tuesday. Nobody had changed the calendar since Lent III. Going… View Post
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