All Saints’, Dorval Proper 18, Year A August 2, 2020 Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. This sentence is often cited… View Post
Incumbent’s report to the parish meeting
Rosanne Harrison and Margaret Beattie at Rosanne’s farewell party, July 18 The last time I wrote a report to Corporation, it was March 10. Just a scant few days before lockdown started, and yet the schedule and concerns I described in reporting on the prior four weeks seem like they come from another world entirely. What work and life look… View Post
Weeds in expected places, and blessings in unexpected ones
All Saints’, Dorval Proper 16, Year A July 19, 2020 My chickens, 2014. I have a friend and ministry colleague who lives in Baltimore and is deeply involved in community gardening endeavours. He remarked on Facebook earlier this week: “I was working in the garden this morning with a man who is an ecology journalist. He said that historians have… View Post
Guest sermon from Dion Lewis!
Ron Finley, “Gangsta Gardener” and community leader in South Los Angeles Here are the readings for today. Christ has no body but yours, No hands, no feet on earth but yours, Yours are the eyes with which he looks Compassion on this world, Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good, Yours are the hands, with which… View Post
Systems of sin, systems of salvation
All Saints’, Dorval Proper 14, Year A July 5, 2020 William Blake, The Temptation of Eve We come with self-inflicted pains of broken trust and chosen wrong; half-free, half-bound by inner chains; by social forces swept along; by powers and systems close confined; yet seeking hope for humankind. Paul’s lament in the final portion of the seventh chapter… View Post
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