Seeing Saints
Luke 19:1-10 This day near the threshold of All Saints, I invite you into this morning’s story looking for saints. I invite you to enter [...]
The Presence in Absence
Image credit: Ascension of Christ by Eddie Guzman The absence of his presence, the presence of his absence, like a palpable thing. […]
Softly
Easter John 20: 1 -18 You know how, when the sun softly falls across your page as you read Or, on your face, as you [...]
Starlight and Slippers
Matthew 2:1-12 There was an Epiphany that found me travelling home from a small town the other side of Toronto. I carried, along with all [...]
If, but . . . and in between
Last Sunday we just touched this text and thinking of it during the week, I recalled this sermon I wrote several years ago. It asks a [...]
A Word for the Darkness
Epiphany always begins with the wisemen. Faithful studiers of the night sky their attention is caught by a wild star,a star not on any of their star [...]
Drawn through the Prophet’s Heart
The journey to God, Sufi Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee says, begins with “the homesickness of the heart, (you can find Vaughn-Lee speaking of Sufisim here https://goldensufi.org/a_interview_st.html Perhaps [...]
In the Crowd
I have to say Palm Sunday sometimes makes me angry. Even though, or perhaps because, I am in that crowd, cheering with the rest of [...]
The Eyes Have It
The Eyes Have It John 3:1-15 In the desert, long before John’s gospel was written, there was the story of a people always walking backwards, their [...]
Inclusion
Do you ever read ahead in the novel? Take a quick peek at the end or the half-way point? Does the book ever just happen to [...]