“Come, Dervishes: Here is the Water of Life”

Sermon begins at 35:55 Readings for the Easter Vigil (Year A) Exodus 14:10-31; 15:20-21 [Israel’s deliverance at the Red Sea] Proverbs 8:1-8, 19-21; 9:4b-6 [Learn wisdom and live]Isaiah 55:1-11 [Salvation offered freely to all] 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 on April […]

The Cross and the Wolf Within

Readings for Good Friday Isaiah 52:13 – 53:12 Psalm 22 Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 John 18:1 – 19:42 This sermon was preached on Good Friday at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on April 3, 2026. About 800 years ago, the people in the Italian city of Gubbio were being terrorized by a fierce wolf who was not […]

Private Devotions of Bishop Lancelot Andrewes: The Sixth Day (Friday)

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 […]

“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 […]

No Man is an Island

Readings for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 25 – Year C – Track 2) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on October 26, 2025. The message of this morning’s short parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector seems fairly simple and straightforward on the surface: be wary of self-aggrandizing piety […]

Sauntering with Lancelot Andrewes

Readings for the Feast of Lancelot Andrewes This reflection was shared at Sacred Saunter Outdoor Eucharist on Saturday September 27, 2025 at Sequoia Park during the Season of Creation Not to be confused with the legendary knight of Camelot, Lancelot Andrewes was a 17th century Anglican bishop and one of the founding fathers of Anglican Christianity. […]

“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, […]

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 […]

“Married to Amazement”

Readings for the Wedding of Joanna Lyn Walling and David Michael Odorisio “Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another. We do not discover the secret of our lives merely by study and calculation in our own isolated meditations. The meaning of […]