All Saints’, Dorval Proper 16, Year B August 22, 2021 “Communion symbols with vine and wheat,” carving from St. Aloysius School chapel, Glasgow August 1 was my three-year anniversary at All Saints’. On that date I was, of course, on vacation, so today is officially the first occasion on which I’m preaching on a set of lectionary texts that I’ve… View Post
A dwelling place for God
All Saints’, Dorval Proper 11, Year B July 18, 2021 Reconstruction of the house church at Dura-Europos. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. In him the… View Post
Newsletter column, July 2021
Newsletter, July 2021 Bill Yeomans, who does so much to keep our physical plant habitable, on Gordon Guy’s bench. In my last newsletter column, I wrote about how the “After Times” were in sight but the transition to the “new normal” might be rockier than we expected. And indeed, although cases have dropped back to the levels they were at… View Post
Dancing for God
All Saints’, Dorval Proper 10, Year B July 11, 2021 People are dancing through our scriptures this morning. When his daughter Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his guests; and the King said to the girl, “Ask me for whatever you wish, and I will give it.” David and all the house of Israel were dancing before… View Post
Not without honour
All Saints’, Dorval Proper 14, Year B July 4, 2021 The fire in Lytton, BC, on June 30th “Prophets are not without honour, except in their hometown, and among their own kin, and in their own house.” This Greco-Roman proverb, quoted by Jesus in response to the critics in his own hometown, is a variation on the more straightforward axiom,… View Post
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