Thanks to Margaret Beattie for hanging the Thanksgiving banner (just barely visible at left – I turned on all the lights but it was still dark in the church!) The COVID-19 pandemic continues to make it very difficult to plan ahead, and (as I hinted in my sermon on Sunday) requires us to be flexible and ready to change our… View Post
Gratitude and changes of plan
All Saints’, Dorval Harvest Thanksgiving, Year A October 11, 2020 Megan, Jen, and me at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, St. Albans, Vermont, April 8, 2018. Today was supposed to be the day we went back to having Eucharist. Ever since we decided in July to apply to reopen, I had been quietly thinking over what I might say on… View Post
Kinds of belonging
All Saints’, Dorval Proper 27, Year A October 4, 2020 James Tissot, “The Ark of the Covenant Crosses the Jordan” Beloved, I do not consider that I have made it my own; but this one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of… View Post
Pandemic virtues
A medieval illumination of the Four Cardinal Virtues Yesterday, as I was writing up the announcement that we are re-suspending in-person worship for a period of four weeks, I found myself typing the words, “The people of All Saints’ have been a shining example of fortitude and patience for the past six months.” The phrasing sounded familiar, and I soon… View Post
Good news in the vineyard
All Saints’, Dorval Proper 25, Year A September 20, 2020 The Parable of the Vineyard is one of those stories that’s a touchpoint for me; it keeps coming up in different contexts, and has become central to how I think about God. A retelling and reinterpretation of this parable is a key portion of the medieval poem on which I… View Post
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