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 […]

Sensuous Asceticism

Readings for the Feast of the Christ Mass 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 Christmas is to mark the span of time […]

Awaken the Inner Child

Readings for the Feast of the Christ Mass 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 of Advent quotes prepared by parishioner […]

Private Devotions of Bishop Lancelot Andrewes: The Second Day (Monday)

Private 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 […]

A Sign for Honi, Ahaz, and Us

Readings for the Fourth Sunday of Advent (Year A) 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 circle of our Advent wreath comes to completion, I […]

Thomas Merton and the Angels of Advent

Readings for the Feast Day of Thomas Merton This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on December 10, 2025 I’d like to begin by reading a poem by Thomas Merton titled “Advent.”[1] I invite you to let these words wash over you and fall gently upon you like a morning dew. Let go […]

“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 […]

Matthew’s Mini-Apocalypse

Readings for the First Sunday of Advent (Year A) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on November 30, 2025. On this first Sunday of Advent, we generally wish each other a happy new year as we begin a new liturgical year together. So, happy new year! Today, we begin our three-year journey […]

Be Still and Know…

Readings for the Feast of Christ the King, the Last Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 29 – Year C – Track 2) This sermon was preached at Christ Episcopal Church in Eureka CA on November 23, 2025. I’d like to begin by teaching you a simple chant, inspired by today’s psalm, a chant we sing at the beginning […]

The Perseverance of Samuel Seabury

Readings for the Feast Day of the Consecration of Samuel Seabury This reflection was shared at the monthly gathering of Associates and Oblates of the Community of the Transfiguration on November 14, 2025 Today is not the Feast of Samuel Seabury. Today is the Feast of the Consecration of Samuel Seabury, which is an important distinction since […]