The Eagle Lands: Genuflection, Incarnation and Deification

Readings for the First Sunday after Christmas Day 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 an old liturgical practice that began at Salisbury cathedral in medieval […]

“Do But Make Room for Him this Advent and Christmas”

This 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 […]

Affirming “Brother Ass”

Readings for the First Sunday after Christmas Day This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church Eureka on Sunday December 31, 2023. 800 years ago, a 41-year-old deacon travelled to the Italian town of Greccio, where he pondered the mystery of Christmas expressed in the words of the Gospel we just heard read. Although his younger years […]