Anglican Openness

Readings for the Twelfth Sunday of Ordinary Time after Pentecost (Year A) This sermon was preached at St. Stephen’s Chapel at Judges Bay in Auckland New Zealand on Sunday August 20, 2023. It is a great honor to be with you here at this historic chapel where the first Māori Anglican priest, Rota Waitoa, is buried along […]

The Sensual Gospel of Hato Hone

This paper was presented at the College of St. John the Evangelist in Auckland New Zealand as part of the Te Piri Poho Research Seminar on August 17, 2023. On the island of Iona in the Scottish Hebrides, there is a well of St. Brigid which is considered the last remaining well of its kind […]

Mary’s Words of Wisdom

Readings for the Feast of St. Mary the Virgin (Evening) This sermon was preached at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Auckland New Zealand on Sunday August 13, 2023. It’s a joy and honor for me to be preaching here at Holy Trinity Cathedral and I want to thank Fr. Ivica for his warm welcome and generous hospitality. […]

The Divine Prank of the paschal Lamb

This paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion at the Institut Catholiqe de Paris on June 14, 2023. The Divine Prank of the Paschal Lamb: Putting Meat on Gil Bailie’s Interpretation of Exodus 12 In his book Violence Unveiled, Gil Bailie offers an interpretation of Exodus 12 that can […]

Abide in the Prayer of the Heart

Readings for the Seventh Sunday of Easter (Year A) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Sunday May 21, 2023. Today is the last Sunday before my three-month Sabbatical; and today’s Gospel comes from the final section of the Farewell Discourse in the Gospel of John.[1] Scholars divide the Gospel of John […]

Experiencing the “Unknown” God

Readings for the Sixth Sunday of Easter (Year A) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Sunday May 14, 2023. O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love towards you, that we may obtain your promises, which exceed […]

Emulating the Trees with Frances Perkins

Readings for the Feast Day of Frances Perkins This reflection was shared at Sacred Saunter Outdoor Eucharist on Saturday May 13, 2023 at Sequoia Park in Eureka. Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve a President of the United States as a member of the cabinet. Born in Boston on April 10, 1880, and […]

the Way to Many Mansions

Readings for the Fifth Sunday of Easter (Year A) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Sunday May 7, 2023. This weekend, our Anglican siblings across the pond celebrated an elaborate Eucharist as they crowned their new king, Charles III, at Westminster Abbey, an ancient building that was filled with people singing […]

The Risen Christus Rex: Homily for John Rex White

Readings for John Rex White’s Celebration of Life. This homily was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on May 6, 2023. During my last visit with Rex, we walked together among the redwood trees in Redway, along a path that he called his “Sacred Saunter.” We stopped by the Eel River, where he would often […]

Finding Pasture

Readings for the Fourth Sunday of Easter (Year A) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on Good Shepherd Sunday April 30, 2023. The dominant image found within the earliest Christian art of the ancient catacombs in Rome, Sicily, and Naples is not the image of the cross or crucifix which later dominated […]