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Day Four of An Advent Calendar: The Feast of St. Andrew
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 The Feast of St. Andrew Morning: Is 49.1–6 1 Cor 4.1–16 Evening: Is 55.1–5 Jn 1.35–42 The text of the readings follows after the comments. Today we take a break from Advent to mark the … Continue reading
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Day Three of An Advent Calendar: First Thessalonians
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 Tuesday after the First Sunday of Advent Is 1.21–31 1 Th 2.1–12 Lk 20.9–18 The text of the readings follows after the comments. The second reading is from Paul’s First Letter to the Thessalonians. Thessaloniki (as … Continue reading
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Day Two of An Advent Calendar
Monday, November 28, 2016 Monday after the First Sunday of Advent Is 1.10–20 1 Th 1.1–10 Lk 20.1–8 The text of the readings follows after the comments. Isaiah, as Thomas Merton once said, is the prophet of Advent. So who … Continue reading
First Sunday of An Advent Calendar
Sunday November 27, 2016 The First Sunday of Advent Is 1.1–9 2 Pet 3.1–10 Mt 25.1–13 The text of the readings follows after the comments. In Advent we spend a lot of time looking at the Last Days. We start … Continue reading
An Advent Calendar 2016
The tradition of the Advent Calendar goes back to German Lutherans of the 19th century. It was a fun way for children to mark the four Sundays of Advent and the days leading up to Christmas. In the post-war era … Continue reading
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On Humility
Preached on the Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost (Year C), October 23, 2016 at The Parish of St. Matthias, Victoria BC (Diocese of British Columbia, Anglican Church of Canada). Some of you may recall this song by Mac Davis from 1980. … Continue reading
It Was More Like 80%
It Wasn’t Two-Thirds, It Was More Like 80% That’s the conclusion that I’ve reached about the level of support for the First Reading of the Amendment to the Marriage Canon. As most Canadian Anglicans know, the motion required a two-thirds … Continue reading
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Not All Delegates are Alike
General Synod Delegates and the Populations They Represent In the last blog post I reviewed the raw statistics collected by the General Synod in order to determine the number of clergy and lay delegates each diocese could send to General … Continue reading
The 21st Largest City in Canada: Anglican Church Attendance in Canada
This will be the first of three posts I am going to put up here on my blog. This one is going to be about the attendance statistics collected by the General Synod. The second will be about how the … Continue reading
An Anxious, Desperate God
Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost. Rejoice with me, for I have found the coin that I had lost. You’ve lost something. And when I mean lost, I mean it’s not anywhere. That book … Continue reading
The Island Parson 