Readings for Pentecost Whitsunday (Year A) Numbers 11:24-30 Acts 2:1-21 John 20:19-23 Psalm 104:25-35, 37 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka on Sunday May 31, 2020. Worship Program here.  I will sing to the Lord as long as I live; I will praise my God while I have my being.  May these words of mine please […]

Readings for the Seventh Sunday of Easter (Year A) Acts 1:6-14 1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11 John 17:1-11 Psalm 68:1-10, 33-36 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka on Sunday May 24, 2020. Worship Program here.  “Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that is taking place among you… Cast all your […]

Readings for the Fifth Sunday of Easter (Year A) Psalm 31:1-5, 15-16 Acts 7:55-60 1 Peter 2:2-10 John 14:1-14 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka on Sunday May 10, 2020.  Worship program here. (Sermon begins at 19:13). Last Sunday was Good Shepherd Sunday, when we read a portion of the Good Shepherd discourse […]

  This children’s sermon was offered for Christ Episcopal Church Eureka on Saturday May 9, 2020.  As we have been worshipping online, I like to set up this gorgeous Christ Church Eureka banner in the House, but it tends to block our doorway a bit and actually functions as a kind of door. Christ Church […]

  Readings for Good Shepherd Sunday (the Fourth Sunday of Easter – Year A) Acts 2:42-47 1 Peter 2:19-25 John 10:1-10 Psalm 23 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka on Sunday May 3, 2020.  Worship program here. As distance continues to make my heart grow fonder of you and our in-person gatherings, I’ve […]

This article was published in the Times-Standard on Sunday April 19, 2020 along with a series of articles addressing an Easter ad with anti-Jewish content. ‘Renounce the sin of scapegoating’ By the Rev. Daniel DeForest London, Ph.D. During times of crisis, we can easily fall prey to the human compulsion to scapegoat and blame innocent victims. […]

Readings for the Feast of the Resurrection (Year A) Jeremiah 31:1-6 Acts 10:34-43 Matthew 28:1-10 Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka on Sunday April 12, 2020. (Sermon begins at 18:25 in video above). Worship program here. I love the tradition of beginning the Easter Sunday sermon with a joke when […]

  Readings for Good Friday Solemn Liturgy. Isaiah 52:13-53:12 Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 John 18:1-19:42 Psalm 22 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka on Sunday April 10, 2020. (Sermon begins at 28:05 in video above). Worship program here. In the words of Joni Mitchell, “Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know […]

Readings for the Fifth Sunday in Lent (Year A) – Laetare Sunday (transferred) Ezekiel 37:1-14 Romans 8:6-11 John 11:1-45 Psalm 130 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka on Sunday March 29, 2020. (Sermon begins at 20:30 in video above).  It is good to be worshipping back in this glorious, sacred space after “sitting […]