All Saints, Dorval Lent IV, Year B March 10, 2024 Study for “Jesus Visiting Nicodemus,” 1899, Henry Ossawa Tanner. Wikimedia Commons. We don’t talk enough about the Psalms. Every week in worship, we say a short portion of text drawn from this vast, ancient repository of prayer, praise, longing, celebration, despair, joy, terror, and hope. The Psalms are the sources… View Post
Traders in the house of the Lord
All Saints, Dorval Lent III, Year B March 3, 2024 I confess: I sometimes get really tired of refuting antisemitic and anti-Jewish interpretations of Scripture. Especially since I don’t actually think that anyone in this congregation necessarily thinks that the Jewish faith or the Jewish people is inferior in the first place. I would much rather talk about Paul’s idea… View Post
The unanswerable questions
All Saints, Dorval Lent I, Year B February 18, 2024 The Confirmation & Reception class of 2022 Every year in the lectionary, the yearly cycle of scripture readings in worship, we get some version of the story of John the Baptist three times. First in Advent, when John is the herald of the coming Kingdom of God; then on the… View Post
Maundy Thursday Youth Retreat!
Newsletter, Lent 2024 (I’ve been very lax lately about both submitting content for the parish newsletter, and getting my reports and other non-sermon materials onto this blog. Trying to be better about that!) Lent has followed hard on the heels of Christmas this year. As I type this I don’t feel remotely ready, but the Pancake Supper will start in… View Post
The Many Dimensions of Lent
All Saints, Dorval Ash Wednesday, Year B February 14, 2024 Are you ready for Lent? I’m not. I feel like it was Christmas the day before yesterday, and we’ve barely had winter this year, and now here we are once again hearing about plagues of locusts and putting ashes on our foreheads while reading a gospel that explicitly tells us… View Post
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