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 […]

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 […]

  Readings for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany (Year B) Deuteronomy 18:15-20 Psalm 111 1 Corinthians 8:1-13 Mark 1:21-28 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on January 28, 2018.   Expectations were great for the Jewish Messiah. The Messiah was expected to raise an army that would defeat all of Israel’s […]

Readings for the Third Sunday after Epiphany (Year B) Jonah 3:1-5, 10 Psalm 62:6-14 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 Mark 1:14-20 This sermon was preached at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Crockett CA on January 21, 2018.  For God alone my soul in silence waits; truly, my hope is in him. The great evangelist, the Rev. Billy Graham tells […]

Readings for the First Sunday after Christmas Isaiah 61:10-62:3 Galatians 3:23-25; 4:4-7 John 1:1-18 Psalm 147 or 147:13-21 These prayers were shared at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in San Rafael on Sunday December 31, 2017 On this last day of 2017, which is also my next-to-last Sunday here with you, I want to […]

Readings for Christmas Eve (Section I): Isaiah 9:2-7 Titus 2:11-14 Luke 2:1-14(15-20) Psalm 96 This sermon was preached at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in San Rafael CA on Sunday December 24, 2017 “We come, as people have come all through the ages, to bring our own gifts to this Child, God’s gift to […]

Readings for the Fourth Sunday of Advent (Year B) 2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16 Canticle 15 Romans 16:25-27 Luke 1:26-38 This sermon was preached by Fr. Daniel London at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in San Rafael CA on December 24, 2017. One of the first things I picked up from the Episcopal Church was […]

Readings for the Third Sunday of Advent (Year B) Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24 John 1:6-8,19-28 Canticle 15 This sermon was preached by Fr. Daniel London at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in San Rafael CA on December 17, 2017. I’d like to begin this sermon with a poem from a book I […]

Readings for the First Sunday of Advent (Year B) Isaiah 64:1-9 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 Mark 13:24-37 Psalm 80:1-7, 16-18 This sermon was preached by Fr. Daniel London at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer in San Rafael CA on December 3, 2017. Here we are on the first Sunday of Advent, a season of hope […]

This paper was given at American River College in Sacramento, California, on November 29, 2017, for an interfaith panel discussion entitled “A Bigger Table: What Abraham Can Teach Us about Hospitality..” The panel featured leaders from local Jewish, Christian, and Islamic communities. It was hosted by the Muslim Students Association and moderated by ARC humanities […]