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 […]

A Sign for Honi, Ahaz, and Us

Readings for the Fourth Sunday of Advent (Year A) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on December 21, 2025. On this Winter Solstice, this shortest day of the year, as our Jewish friends light the final candle of the hanukkiah, and as the circle of our Advent wreath comes to completion, I […]

Thomas Merton and the Angels of Advent

Readings for the Feast Day of Thomas Merton This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on December 10, 2025 Collect for the (proposed) Feast Day of Thomas Merton Gracious God, you called your monk Thomas Merton to proclaim your justice out of silence, and moved him in his contemplative writings to perceive and […]

“Do But Make Room for Him this Advent and Christmas”

This article was written for the December 2025 Chronicle newsletter for Christ Church Eureka. This Advent, I’m reading a book by an Anglican theologian named Donald Allchin who enjoyed a spiritual friendship with the Trappist monk Thomas Merton, whose feast day happens to be this month (Dec 10)![1] Donald Allchin was an Anglican priest and author who […]

Matthew’s Mini-Apocalypse

Readings for the First Sunday of Advent (Year A) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on November 30, 2025. On this first Sunday of Advent, we generally wish each other a happy new year as we begin a new liturgical year together. So, happy new year! Today, we begin our three-year journey […]