The Wideness of God’s Mercy (Sermon on the Abrahamic Covenant)

O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from your ways, and bring them again with penitent hearts and steadfast faith to embrace and hold fast the unchangeable truth of your Word, Jesus Christ your Son; who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, […]

Taming Our Wild Beasts (Sermon on St. Mark and the Noahic Covenant)

Readings for the First Sunday in Lent (Year B) Genesis 9:8-17 1 Peter 3:18-22 Mark 1:9-15 Psalm 25:1-9 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on February 18, 2018 “He was in the wilderness forty days, tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts.” … It is probably because […]

Teach Us to Sit Still (Ash Wednesday Sermon)

Upon his conversion to Anglicanism, T. S. Eliot wrote a long poem about trees and gardens and growth titled “Ash Wednesday” in which he repeats this short yet slightly enigmatic prayer: “Teach us to care and not to care / Teach us to sit still.” In the Gospel reading for Ash Wednesday, Jesus invites us […]

Seeing the Transfiguration in All of Us

Readings for the Last Sunday after the Epiphany (Year B) 2 Kings 2:1-12 2 Corinthians 4:3-6 Mark 9:2-9 Psalm 50:1-6 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on February 11, 2018. About 1700 years ago, a Roman emperor imprisoned a kind-hearted priest for secretly conducting weddings for young Christian couples. The emperor […]

Finding Our Place of Prayerful Silence and Solitude (Ereymon Topon)

Readings for the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany (Year B) Isaiah 40:21-31 1 Corinthians 9:16-23 Mark 1:29-39 Psalm 147:1-12, 21c This sermon was preached by Fr. Daniel London at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA and at Sts. Martha & Mary parochial mission in Trinidad CA on February 4, 2018. In our Gospel reading today, Jesus continues […]