Ut Aliis Tradere

Many of us know the Lord's Prayer. If we were not raised in a Christian tradition, one might have heard it in a movie, or heard about it...

[Sermon delivered at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona, Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, July 17, 2022] ✠ In the Name of the...

"Good Samaritan" is a great example of a Gospel concept that has embedded itself into our culture. Even people hostile to or ignorant of...

[Sermon delivered at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona, on the Fourth Sunday of Pentecost, July 3, 2022] ✠ In the Name of the...

Rage seems to be the flavour of the month. Opinions regarding the role and actions of the Supreme Court of the United States have been...

Today is kind of busy. Many of us are celebrating Fathers' Day, the day where we (in theory) honour our fathers or celebrate being a...

[Sermon delivered at St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona, on the Feast of the Holy Trinity, June 12, 2022] ✠ In the...

One of the readings offered for today speaks to a current debate among Christians as to what exactly constitutes a child of God. Here it...

(The readings for Sunday Mass today may be found here.) There has been a lot of noise about the Church being the Body of Christ, about it...

I see a lot of sermons and blogs from friends and acquaintances who do pretty much the same thing I do, which is make comment on the...

[Sermon for Easter V (the Fourth Sunday after Easter), May 15, 2022 at St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church, Phoenix, Arizona] ✠ In the...

Twenty-first century North American culture is overwhelmingly urban. Certainly rural culture is pervasive and as long as people actually...

We have all had at least one situation where we have handled ourselves so poorly that we believe it to be unsalvageable. The worst are...

We are a sheltered culture. We are surrounded by all sorts of violence in media, we see war in distant nations brought home to us by...

The Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ is one of, if not the most mystifying series of events in the history of the cosmos. Why...