All Saints’, Dorval Pentecost, Year B May 19, 2024 Baptism baby Ben with his friends Sarah and Talia on Sunday! Five years ago on Pentecost, I stood in this pulpit and said: We all know the feeling of hearing, in the midst of a random babble of languages that we understand imperfectly or not at all, a sudden phrase or… View Post
Judas in the in-between time
All Saints’, Dorval Easter VII, Year B May 12, 2024 The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, New Hampshire, March 2013. Photo (and set and lighting design) by Matt Kizer. Then they prayed and said, “Lord, you know everyone’s heart. Show us which one of these two you have chosen to take the place in this ministry… View Post
Newsletter, May 2024
A few thoughts about “volunteering” Terry, John and Pam at the Ministry Fair in February In 2024, it’s not news that many churches in Canada are dealing with demographic challenges. Church attendance is no longer a social expectation; congregations are greying and shrinking. A huge cohort of women who, in the mid-twentieth century, mostly stayed home and filled their free… View Post
Report to the Parish Meeting, April 2024
Incumbent’s Report, April 28, 2024 The Maundy Thursday dinner The last six weeks at All Saints’ by the Lake have been extraordinarily rich and full. The second half of March was, of course, pretty much entirely devoted to preparations for Holy Week and then Holy Week itself. Palm Saturday, held amid heavy snow on the morning of March 23, was… View Post
Abiding together
All Saints’, Dorval Easter V, Year B April 28, 2024 The people of St. Porphyrios’ Orthodox Church in Gaza, working on their palms last week Last week at the “You are Leaven” conference in Mississauga, the story of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch kept popping up. In the first workshop I attended, on “embodied Bible study,” I found myself… View Post
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