Grace Pritchard Burson

A dwelling place for God

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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

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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

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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

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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

The hemorrhaging woman

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Grace Pritchard Burson The Young Clergy Women Project, Conference 2016 Service of Healing & Communion Tuesday, July 12, 2016 This is a sermon preached at the 2016 conference of what was then called the Young Clergy Women Project (now Young Clergy Women International) in Boston, MA. I would preach it differently now, five years on, with a much improved understanding… View Post