Ecumenical and Interreligious Report (Sept 2024 – 2025)

Ecumenical and Interreligious Report (Sept 2024 – Sept 2025) The Rev. Dr. Daniel DeForest London It’s an honor to serve as your Ecumenical and Interreligious Officer and I am grateful to our previous Ecumenical Officer, the Rev. Bill Rontani, for his wisdom, counsel, and leadership in this role over the past several years. The purpose […]

the Rich Man & Lazarus according to Bonaventure and Francis

Readings for the Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 21 – Year C – Track 2) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on September 28, 2025. As we continue to move through the Season of Creation, I feel invited to continue my sermon series on the patron saint of Creation, the little poor […]

Saint Francis the Good Shepherd

Readings for the Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 19 – Year C – Track 2) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on September 14, 2025. Last Sunday, I spoke about St. Francis as the one disciple who took Christ seriously and literally. Yesterday, at our Holy Cross Sacred Saunter, I spoke about […]

THe Holy Cross and St. FRancis

Readings for the Feast Day of the Holy Cross This reflection was shared at Sacred Saunter Outdoor Eucharist on Saturday September 13, 2025 at Sequoia Park during the Season of Creation Today we celebrate the Eve of the Feast of the Holy Cross, which is the Tree of Life that saves us. Throughout church history, […]

the Disciple who Took Christ Seriously

Readings for the Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 18 – Year C – Track 2) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on September 7, 2025. Today we celebrate, for the first time in Christ Church Eureka history, the first Sunday of the Season of Creation, a new liturgical season established in 1989 […]

Embracing Philoxenia and Overcoming Xenophobia (with Baucis and Philemon)

Readings for the Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 17 – Year C – Track 2) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on August 31, 2025. Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing so some have entertained angels (Hebrews 13:2) This morning, I want to share an ancient story […]

“Let Him Kiss me with the Kisses of his Mouth” – The Feast of St. Bernard of Clairvaux

Readings for the Feast Day of St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church at the Chapel of Our Merciful Saviour in Eureka CA on August 20, 2025. While the era of the Church Fathers generally spans from the first century to the seventh century AD, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, who lived […]

PAX ROMANA vs. God’s Shalom

Readings for the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 15 – Year C – Track 2) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on August 17, 2025. In our Gospel this morning, Jesus speaks provocatively, asking, “Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but […]

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, […]