Q: How Long? A: Behold, the Lamb of God!

Readings for the Second Sunday after the Epiphany This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on January 18, 2026. In March of 1983, the Irish Rock band U2 released their third album, titled “War”; and the opening track of the album is called “Sunday Bloody Sunday” which describes the horrors of the decades-long […]

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 […]