Grace Pritchard Burson

Weeds in expected places, and blessings in unexpected ones

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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!

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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

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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

Moving toward reopening

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This week, it’s starting to feel like maybe we’re making real progress back to “normal”. Peter is in day camp, I’m working in the office again, and just now I walked to Non Solo Pane for a pastry, just like in the old days. Coming back into the office on Tuesday. Nobody had changed the calendar since Lent III. Going… View Post

Hope does not disappoint

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All Saints’, Dorval Proper 11, Year A June 14, 2020   Garden in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Sometimes, when I read the Apostle Paul, I get the sense of an endless succession of abstract nouns, which makes it difficult a lot of the time to get a footing in what Paul is saying.  Today’s reading from Romans is an… View Post