Grace Pritchard Burson

Systems of sin, systems of salvation

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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

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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

Hope does not disappoint

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 11, Year A June 14, 2020   Garden in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Sometimes, when I read the Apostle Paul, I get the sense of an endless succession of abstract nouns, which makes it difficult a lot of the time to get a footing in what Paul is saying.  Today’s reading from Romans is an… View Post

The image of God

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All Saints’, Dorval Trinity Sunday, Year A June 7, 2020   The fence outside the White House, Saturday, June 6 So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Humankind are created in God’s image.  It’s literally the first thing said about humans in the Bible. And yet… View Post

Wind and Fire

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Today is Pentecost, and this morning in worship we celebrated the coming of the Holy Spirit on the disciples in wind and fire, and in the transformation of language. In her sermon, Bishop Mary called us to reflect on how we can live out the stories of our faith in the here and now, not just in our memories. This… View Post