Grace Pritchard Burson

The happy medium of salt and light

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Epiphany V, Year A February 5, 2023   For if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown out and trampled underfoot. It doesn’t actually seem to be clear to any commentators on the Bible what this sentence means. Salt is… View Post

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Epiphany IV, Year A January 29, 2023 Mac McKinney (left) and Bibi Bahrami (right) with other members of the Muncie, IN, Islamic Center.   For God’s foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God’s weakness is stronger than human strength. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.  What does the Lord… View Post

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Is the Altar Guild for you?

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The altar decorated for Harvest Thanksgiving. As you may have heard, Margaret Beattie, the Altar Guild President who has been involved with this ministry at St. Andrew’s and St. Mark’s and recently at All Saints’ for the last forty years, has decided to take a well-deserved retirement. Several other members of the guild have also decided to step down. We… View Post

“Another, and harder, and better one”

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Epiphany II, Year A January 15, 2023   Illustration by Pauline Baynes from The Horse and His Boy    In C. S. Lewis’ The Horse and his Boy (the fifth of the Chronicles of Narnia), the main character, Shasta, has endured a desperate ride across a deadly desert to warn of a coming invasion and… View Post

Funeral sermon for Leonard McArthur

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All Saints by the Lake, Dorval Leonard McArthur January 10, 2023 Leonard was already over 90 when I got to know him, and like the disciples who had supper with Jesus in our gospel reading this morning, we became known to each other in the breaking of bread. Every few weeks, Gordona would give me a call and I’d stop… View Post