A Columban Pentecost

Readings for Pentecost (Whitsunday) Acts 2:1-21 Psalm 104:25-35, 37 Romans 8:14-17 John 14:8-17, (25-27) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Pentecost Sunday June 9, 2019. Gracious God, help us to let go of what needs to be released and to hold on to what you call us to embrace. In […]

Blessed are those whose dreams have been shattered…

Readings for the Sixth Sunday of Easter (Year C) Acts 16:9-15 Psalm 67 Revelation 21:10, 22-22:5 John 14:23-29 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Sunday May 26, 2019. Have you ever had a desire or dream or vision about something that felt really good and healthy and godly to you […]

The Arc of the Spiritual Universe

Readings for the Fifth Sunday of Easter (Year C) Acts 11:1-18 Revelation 21:1-6 John 13:31-35 Psalm 148 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Sunday May 19, 2019. On my last day in Scotland, I visited the country’s beautiful capital city of Edinburgh. In this one day, I took a bus tour […]

The Highest Tribute: Reflection on Justice Thurgood Marshall

This reflection was shared at the True North Town Hall meeting Changing the Face of Transitional Housing: Moving Toward Solutions at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Saturday May 18, 2019. The Town Hall was covered by the North Coast Journal and the Times-Standard. (Photos by Shaun Walker and Freddie Brewster) Welcome to our True North […]

Giving Birth to New Life: Good Shepherd, Motherhood, and St. Brigid

Readings for Good Shepherd Sunday (the Fourth Sunday of Easter) Year C Acts 9:36-43 Revelation 7:9-17 John 10:22-30 Psalm 23 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Easter Sunday May 12, 2019. Happy Mother’s Day! And Happy Good Shepherd Sunday! I’m very pleased to be back from a sojourn in Scotland on […]

The “Crazy” Mysticism of Easter

Readings for Easter Sunday Isaiah 65:17-25 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 Acts 10:34-43 Luke 24:1-12 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Easter Sunday April 21, 2019. A version of this sermon was published as a commentary at Modern Metanoia, a lectionary-based Gospel commentary. A Sunday School teacher had just finished telling her students […]

Easter Vigil Sermon 2019

This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA at the Easter Vigil Service on April 20, 2019. “This is the night when God brought our fathers, the children of Israel, out of bondage in Egypt, and led them through the Red Sea on dry land. This is the night, when all who believe in […]

Holy Saturday Sacred Saunter

Readings for Holy Saturday Job 14:1-14 Psalm 31:1-4, 15-16 John 19:38-42 This reflection was shared at Sacred Saunter Outdoor Eucharist on Holy Saturday April 20, 2019 at Sequoia Park in Eureka. Today is Holy Saturday, the second day of the Paschal Triduum, the day in which Jesus lies dead in the tomb. Yesterday we observed […]

Spiritual Beings Having a Human Experience

Readings for the Feast Day of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Isaiah 55:6–11 Psalm 65 Revelation 21:1–6 John 3:31–35 This reflection was shared at Sacred Saunter Outdoor Eucharist on Saturday April 13, 2019 at Sequoia Park in Eureka. Collect for Teilhard de Chardin Eternal God, the whole cosmos sings of your glory, from the dividing of a […]

Praying the Celtic Way with Unction

Readings for the Fifth Sunday in Lent (Year C) Isaiah 43:16-21 Psalm 126 Philippians 3:4b-14 John 12:1-8 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on April 7, 2019. A couple weeks ago, I participated in a Clergy Quiet Day at the Mercy Center in Auburn CA, led by the Rev. Megan Anderson, who […]