Readings for the First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of Our Lord Isaiah 42:1-9 Acts 10:34-43 Matthew 3:13-17 Psalm 29 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on January 11, 2026. Today is the feast day of the Baptism of Our Lord (when we baptize Theodore Alex Zheng); it is also the […]
Read More Our Baptism, Belovedness and BehaviorPrivate Devotions of Lancelot Andrewes for the Seventh Day (Saturday) 1. Creation O LORD, be gracious unto us: we have waited for You: be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of trouble.[1] Blessed are You, O Lord, who rested on the seventh day from all Your work, and blessed and sanctified this day […]
Read More Private Devotions of Bishop Lancelot Andrewes for the Seventh Day (Saturday)Private Devotions of Bishop Lancelot Andrewes for the Sixth Day (Friday) Introduction Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kind…[and] let us make humanity in Our image, according to our likeness”…and there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day. – Genesis 1:24, 26, 31 […]
Read More Private Devotions of Bishop Lancelot Andrewes: The Sixth Day (Friday)Readings for the First Sunday after Christmas Day Isaiah 61:10-62:3 Galatians 3:23-25; 4:4-7 John 1:1-18 Psalm 147 or 147:13-21 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on December 28, 2025. The Eagle Lands: Genuflection as Embodied Expression of Incarnation and Deification The Eagle Lands: Genuflection as Embodied Expression of Incarnation and Deification There’s […]
Read More The Eagle Lands: Genuflection, Incarnation and DeificationReadings for the Feast of the Christ Mass Isaiah 52:7-10 Hebrews 1:1-4,(5-12) John 1:1-14 Psalm 98 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka for the Christmas Day service on Sunday December 25, 2025. Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas on this first day of how many days of Christmas? Twelve! The reason we have twelve days of […]
Read More Sensuous AsceticismReadings for the Feast of the Christ Mass Isaiah 62:6-12 Titus 3:4-7 Luke 2:1-20 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka for the Christmas Eve service on Saturday December 24, 2025. Moments before walking the prayer labyrinth a few days ago here at our monthly labyrinth walk, I picked up a quote from a basket […]
Read More Awaken the Inner ChildThese remarks were shared at Betty Kwan Chinn’s Community Christmas Dinner at the Eureka Municipal Auditorium on Tuesday December 23, 2025, when over 500 hungry people were served a prime rib dinner. My name is Father Daniel London and I’m the rector at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka, a church named after the birthday boy […]
Read More CHristmas is the Birthday of God-EnfleshedPrivate Devotions of Lancelot Andrewes for the Second Day (Monday) 1. Meditation My voice You shall hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning I will direct my prayer to You as I look up to the heavens.[1] Blessed are You, O Lord, Who did create the firmament of heaven, the heavens and the […]
Read More Private Devotions of Bishop Lancelot Andrewes: The Second Day (Monday)Readings for the Fourth Sunday of Advent (Year A) Isaiah 7:10-16 Romans 1:1-7 Matthew 1:18-25 Psalm 80:1-7, 16-18 This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on December 21, 2025. On this Winter Solstice, this shortest day of the year, as our Jewish friends light the final candle of the hanukkiah, and as the […]
Read More A Sign for Honi, Ahaz, and UsThis article was written for the December 2025 Chronicle newsletter for Christ Church Eureka. This Advent, I’m reading a book by an Anglican theologian named Donald Allchin who enjoyed a spiritual friendship with the Trappist monk Thomas Merton, whose feast day happens to be this month (Dec 10)![1] Donald Allchin was an Anglican priest and author who […]
Read More “Do But Make Room for Him this Advent and Christmas”
