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 […]

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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 […]

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Wade in the Water: An Easter Vigil Sermon

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 […]

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The Episcopal Church (1888 – 2022)

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 […]

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The Episcopal Church (1792 – 1888)

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 […]

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