What do the following things have in common? The church calendar. A speech at the Republican National Convention. Chapel chairs. The Lord’s Prayer in Spanish. The weather. Dvorak’s String Quartet number 11. The office hours for the veterinarian. The hospitalization of a cathedral member. They are all thoughts that scampered through my head during my … READ MORE…
St Paul’s welcomed the Rev Michael Kinnamon for both the forum and the sermon on Pride Sunday. Grace and peace to you in the name of our savior, Jesus Christ! I give thanks for the ministry God has done through the St. Paul’s community, including your ministry to the homeless, your support of Dorcas House, … READ MORE…
Luke 10:25-37 Come Holy Spirit: Touch our minds and think with them, touch our lips and speak with them and touch our hearts and set them on fire with love for you. AMEN. Different times in human history have gone by different names: the reformation, the renaissance, the age of reason, the Enlightenment. In our … READ MORE…
Gary presented this story along with Colin’s sermon on The Power of Story on July 5. Friday morning June 24th, I was at my favorite weekly event. At 8 a.m., I was breakfasting at Bread & Cie with our Dean and the cathedral’s “best and brightest” (just ask them). About 8:35 the thought entered … READ MORE…
What a beautiful passage in today’s Gospel. It details the the next chapter in Luke’s steady development of Jesus’ followers from a small band of disciples to today’s seventy ambassadors, to the many thousands who, in Luke’s Book of Acts, will be empowered by the Holy Spirit to share God’s Good News with the world. … READ MORE…
“Jesus asked the man, ‘What is your name?’ And he answered ‘Legion’, for many demons had entered him”. The demons have indeed been legion this week. We are all still reeling from the Orlando attack, and in the midst of that horror, our local community dealt with two terrible events close to home: a shootout … READ MORE…
For me it became real when a former parishioner texted me. He told me that he knew one of the victims. Brenda McCool lived in Barstow for a time. She was in the club with her son, dancing. She was there with him to celebrate him, to support him, to make sure he knew that … READ MORE…
Feast Day of St. Barnabas Isaiah 42:5-12 Acts 11:19-30, 13:1-3 Psalm 112 Matthew 10:7-16 The Feast Day of St. Barnabas: The Ordination of Jacqueline Bray, Christopher Harris, Nancy Holland, and Richard Lee Jesus said, “As you go, proclaim the good news.” It’s amazing to see so many people here in church to celebrate the Feast … READ MORE…
Last Wednesday morning I was enjoying an excellent conference of ordained Episcopal women, when I received a text from my son Sam. “Shooter on UCLA campus now. I’m OK in a locked room.” I shared the terrifying message with our conference leaders, and 60 women stopped what they were doing to pray for all involved. … READ MORE…
“Then you call on the name of your god and I will call on the name of the Lord; the god who answers by fire is indeed God.” God answered me by fire last week during a conference in New York for young, progressive Christian ministers. As we got to know each other and began … READ MORE…