Grace Pritchard Burson

Between the Red Sea and the Promised Land

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 24, Year A September 13, 2020   The welcoming committee on Sunday morning!   When Israel came out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of strange speech … Is there any more succinct way of describing the experience of coming home? Both our first reading and our Psalm today describe the Exodus, that… View Post

Is now the time?

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 23, Year A September 6, 2020   I have a friend and colleague who serves a church in Nashville, Tennessee, where on March 3 of this year, there was a tornado.  That was a huge crisis for her congregation, as one might expect – and then ten days later, more or less, the world basically shut… View Post

Other things you should know

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ServiCorp delivering supplies, 9/3/20 It’s a barrage of information this week as we gear up for in-person worship. On August 30 after worship, we had an informal parish meeting with Q&A about what to expect when we reopen on September 13.  For anyone who missed that session, we’ll repeat it (as needed) after Zoom church this coming Sunday, September 6…. View Post

Burning, and yet not consumed

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 22, Year A August 30, 2020   He looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed. This is Moses’ first direct encounter with God, but far from the last.  Of all the figures in the Hebrew Scriptures, Moses is the one who comes closest to seeing and hearing God as God really is,… View Post

Things I Swore in Seminary I’d Never Do

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In the post-COVID world, there are many things we would never have dreamed of doing in “the Before Times”, but that are necessary in the situation we find ourselves in now.  Here are a few that I’ve encountered as we prepare to reopen the church for worship. Reservations: With restrictions on how many people can safely occupy a single indoor… View Post