Our Baptism, Belovedness and Behavior

Readings for the First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of Our Lord This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on January 11, 2026. Today is the feast day of the Baptism of Our Lord (when we baptize Theodore Alex Zheng); it is also the 12th anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood, […]

An Epiphany Sermon inspired by Lancelot Andrews and T. S. Eliot

Readings for the Feast of the Epiphany This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on January 6, 2026. Since we celebrated his feast day in September during a Sacred Saunter, I’ve been regularly praying the Private Devotions of Lancelot Andrewes, the 17th century Anglican bishop who is responsible for translating the King James […]

The Magi as Proto-Anglicans

Readings for the Second Sunday after Christmas Day This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on January 4, 2026. Happy Eleventh Day of Christmas! Tomorrow night will be this season’s Twelfth Night, which is the name of that Shakespeare comedy in which the character Duke Orsino says, “If music be the food of […]

Private Devotions of Bishop Lancelot Andrewes for the Seventh Day (Saturday)

Private Devotions of Lancelot Andrewes for the Seventh Day (Saturday) 1. Creation O LORD, be gracious unto us: we have waited for You: be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of trouble.[1] Blessed are You, O Lord, who rested on the seventh day from all Your work, and blessed and sanctified this day […]

Private Devotions of Bishop Lancelot Andrewes: The Sixth Day (Friday)

Private Devotions of Bishop Lancelot Andrewes for the Sixth Day (Friday) Introduction Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind…[and] let us make humanity in Our image, according to our likeness”…and there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. – Genesis 1:24, 26, 31 […]

The Eagle Lands: Genuflection, Incarnation and Deification

Readings for the First Sunday after Christmas Day This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on December 28, 2025. The Eagle Lands: Genuflection as Embodied Expression of Incarnation and Deification The Eagle Lands: Genuflection as Embodied Expression of Incarnation and Deification There’s an old liturgical practice that began at Salisbury cathedral in medieval […]

Sensuous Asceticism

Readings for the Feast of the Christ Mass This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka for the Christmas Day service on Sunday December 25, 2025. Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas on this first day of how many days of Christmas? Twelve! The reason we have twelve days of Christmas is to mark the span of time […]

Awaken the Inner Child

Readings for the Feast of the Christ Mass This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka for the Christmas Eve service on Saturday December 24, 2025. Moments before walking the prayer labyrinth a few days ago here at our monthly labyrinth walk, I picked up a quote from a basket of Advent quotes prepared by parishioner […]

CHristmas is the Birthday of God-Enfleshed

These remarks were shared at Betty Kwan Chinn’s Community Christmas Dinner at the Eureka Municipal Auditorium on Tuesday December 23, 2025, when over 500 hungry people were served a prime rib dinner. My name is Father Daniel London and I’m the rector at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka, a church named after the birthday boy […]

Private Devotions of Bishop Lancelot Andrewes: The Second Day (Monday)

Private Devotions of Lancelot Andrewes for the Second Day (Monday) 1. Meditation My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning I will direct my prayer to You as I look up to the heavens.[1] Blessed are You, O Lord, Who did create the firmament of heaven, the heavens and the […]