Readings for Easter Sunday (Year A) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Easter Sunday April 9, 2023. Happy Easter! Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed! ALLELUIA! Throughout this Lenten season we’ve engaged our senses by listening to the wind with Nicodemus, by savoring the water with the Samaritan woman, […]

Readings for the Easter Vigil (Year A) Exodus 14:10-31; 15:20-21 [Israel’s deliverance at the Red Sea]Isaiah 55:1-11 [Salvation offered freely to all]Ezekiel 36:24-28 [A new heart and a new spirit]Zephaniah 3:14-20 [The gathering of God’s people] Romans 6:3-11Psalm 114Matthew 28:1-10 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA at the Great Vigil of Easter […]

Readings for Good Friday Isaiah 52:13-53:12 Psalm 22 Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 John 19:1-37 This sermon was preached on Good Friday at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on April 7, 2023.  The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ according to John, which we just heard, has tragically been used by Christians throughout history to justify anti-Jewish violence. […]

This reflection was offered at the Christ Church Eureka Centering Prayer group on Holy Monday, April 3, 2023 Today is Holy Monday and it is also the feast day of St. Richard of Chichester, a 13th century missionary bishop who served poor fishermen and farmers throughout England and who died 770 years ago today, on April […]

A brief introduction to The Episcopal Church (1888 – 2022) for the Anglican Cycle of Prayer From 1880 to 1920, the American population would swell from 50 million to 105 million; and this dramatic increase in population brought with it a series of social and economic problems associated with urbanization, industrialization, an economic depression, and dangerous working […]

A brief introduction to The Episcopal Church (1792 – 1888) for the Anglican Cycle of Prayer By the end of the eighteenth century, the Protestant Episcopal Church had become one church among several others in the states. In 1817, the General Convention of the church established the General Theological Seminary in New York, the oldest seminary in […]

A brief introduction to The Episcopal Church (1579 – 1792) for the Anglican Cycle of Prayer The first recorded worship service using the English Book of Common Prayer on American soil was led by Francis Fletcher, the chaplain of Sir Francis Drake on the Feast Day of St. John the Baptist in 1579. Today, there is […]

Readings for the Feast Day of F. D. Maurice This reflection was shared at Sacred Saunter Outdoor Eucharist on Saturday April 1, 2023 at Sequoia Park in Eureka.  Today’s Gospel concludes with Jesus saying to Pilate, “Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.” After this, Pilate asked Jesus, “What is truth?” A […]

On the Second Sunday after the Epiphany (January 15), I preached on the appointed psalm for that day, which was Psalm 40. Since then, I turned 40 years old and have been listening frequently to the song “40” by U2, a song released in the same month and year that I was born, March 1983. […]

Smell the Air of the Afterlife Readings for the Fifth Sunday in Lent (Year A) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka on Sunday March 26, 2023. Throughout this Lenten season, the Gospel of John has invited us to listen to the wind with Nicodemus, to taste the living water of the Word with the […]