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
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
Peter walking on the water
All Saints’, Dorval Proper 19, Year A August 9, 2020 I don’t think it would have happened exactly that way if we hadn’t all been so tired. Jesus was already exhausted with shock and grief when he got there, and the rest of us weren’t in much better shape; and then the crowds showed up, and instead of the quiet… View Post
Wrestling with the Word
All Saints’, Dorval Proper 18, Year A August 2, 2020 Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. This sentence is often cited… View Post
Incumbent’s report to the parish meeting
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
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