Nov 22
What is Truth? (The Reign of Christ)
What truth do you belong to? That’s not where we begin on this Sunday that we call the Reign of Christ. But that’s where we’re...
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Nov 7
Hope (All Saints)
Yesterday, on All Souls Day, at our beautiful choral evensong, we remembered those who have died. Today, on All Saints Sunday, we...
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Oct 25
Why Bad Things Happen (The Book of Job)
The book of Job that we have been reading this past month is one of the most challenging, profound and, I dare say, relevant books of the...
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Oct 18
Thanksgiving: On Balance
On this day of Thanksgiving, let me start with a question: Is thanksgiving a feeling or an action? Or put another way, during this...
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Oct 3
Thin Places
Last Saturday the five residents of Trinity House and I had a retreat together. It’s an important part of how we begin a new year of...
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Sep 6
Be Open
Sometimes Jesus speaks a word that remains so vivid, so pivotal in the imagination of the people who heard it, that when they wrote down...
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Aug 30
Masks & Bananas
Why does hypocrisy drive Jesus bananas? I mean, throughout the gospels we see so many instances of Jesus being caring and compassionate...
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Aug 9
Eternal Life
Last Sunday I spoke to you about my pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago. We go on pilgrimage because we are looking for something less....
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Aug 2
Believe
One of the things I like best about walking the Camino in northern Spain is getting to know your walking companions and listening to...
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Jul 26
What's Possible?
Each one of us wakes up every day of our lives with assumptions about what’s possible and what’s not possible. What would life be like if...
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Jul 20
Come Away
Have you ever had your plans thwarted? Imagine that you’ve planned to go with your family on a much-needed vacation, a break from the...
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Jul 4
Doubt, Singularities and the Big Bang
Homily: Yr C Easter 2, April 3 2016, St. Albans Church Readings: Acts 5.27-32; Ps 150; Rev 1.4-8; John 20.19-31 Evidence-based decision...
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Jul 2
Over the Edge
“Your daughter is dead.” I can’t imagine any words more devastating. If those words were to be directed at me, I I would collapse,...
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