This is an elaboration on a recent Facebook post, expanded and put here at the request of others. Joe Biden being sworn in to the US Senate next to 4-year-old Beau’s hospital bed, Jan. 5, 1973 Most people have no idea that in 1972, the United States came within a hair’s breadth of establishing a universal public childcare system. The… View Post
Paul, sex, God, and other scary topics
All Saints, Dorval Epiphany III, Year B January 24, 2021 Ruins of 1st-century Corinth Last week, when Raymond read the epistle, he added a “parental advisory” at the beginning, and while I was preaching on the story of Samuel, I promised that I would return to that passage this week, since I imagined it might raise some significant questions. Here… View Post
Ash Wednesday – and Pandemic Lent, round 2
Ash Wednesday and Lent, 2021 Shrove Tuesday Pancake Supper 2020, in happier times … As I’ve said before, in a lot of ways it feels like we entered into Lent in February of 2020 and never came out. But here we are again, and Ash Wednesday (February 17) is the last major liturgical occasion that we will be observing for… View Post
Report to the Parish Meeting, January 24
Incumbent’s Report, January 24, 2021 Messy Church on Friday, January 15 As I write, I sincerely hope that we are currently in the darkest days – literally and figuratively – of the COVID-19 pandemic. As of the second weekend in January, Quebec is subject to a stricter lockdown than ever, including a 9-hour overnight curfew. In anticipation of this situation,… View Post
“Here I am!”
All Saints, Dorval Epiphany II, Year B January 17, 2021 In September of 2019, I started using a felt board Bible story set called “Beulah Land” (created and distributed by my mother, of course) to tell the stories at Messy Church, and I also pulled it out for the Christmas Eve family service that year. Every few months since then,… View Post
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