Surrounded by a Shield of Divine Light

Readings for the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 14 – Year C – Track 2) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on August 10, 2025. May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts be pleasing in your sight, O Lord our shield and our very great reward. Amen. […]

“Hallowed Be Thy Name”: On the Road Back Home from the Trappist Abbey

Readings for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 12 – Year C – Track 2) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on July 27, 2025. I preached a couple Sundays ago about something that happened to me on my way to a Trappist monastery in upstate New York. Between then and now, […]

Joy! Shipmate – Joy!: Homily for Howard Wyatt Gardner

This homily was preached at the Burial Service for Howard Wyatt Gardner (June 28, 1930 – January 8, 2025) on July 19, 2025 by Fr. Daniel London at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA. Readings for the Burial Service The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases. His mercies never come to an end. They […]

A Channel of love: on the Road to the Trappist Abbey

Readings for the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 10 – Year C – Track 2) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on July 13, 2025. Last month, while visiting family in Ithaca NY, I decided to go on a mini pilgrimage to a Trappist monastery called the Abbey of the Genesee in […]

The Wilderness and the Silence

Readings for the Third Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 8 – Year C – Track 2) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on June 29, 2025. Last weekend I was in Denver CO, participating in a conference that focused on the writings and teachings of Trappist monk and mystic Thomas Merton, especially the […]

Dancing in the Eternal Interflow of Friendship

Readings for Trinity Sunday (Year C) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on June 15, 2025. “I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Shall I not call God the Beautiful, who daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts?”[1] These are among the […]

You Are Not a Brick, But a Newborn Bard of the Holy Ghost

Readings for Pentecost Sunday (Year C) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on June 8, 2025. Today we feel the wind beneath our wingsToday the hidden fountain flows and playsToday the church draws breath at last and singsAs every flame becomes a Tongue of praise.This is the feast of fire, air, and […]

Transforming Wounds into Glory

Readings for the Fifth Sunday of Easter (Year C) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on May 18, 2025. This last week, I led a retreat on Spiritual Friendship for clergy at the Bishop’s Ranch in Healdsburg. We read aloud my distillation of the medieval classic Spiritual Friendship by St. Aelred of […]

The Lamb Who Makes Shepherd out of SHeep

Readings for the Fourth Sunday of Easter (Year C) – Good Shepherd Sunday & Mother’s Day This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on May 11, 2025. Happy Mother’s Day and Happy Good Shepherd Sunday! It’s not all that uncommon for these two holidays to coincide; and I love it when they do […]

Breakfast with Jesus

Readings for the Third Sunday of Easter (Year C) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on May 4, 2025. A colleague of mine who taught graduate courses in theology said that Christian Spirituality is essentially a question; and that question is, “Do you love me?” It’s the question that Christ is asking […]