Monday, December 25, 2023: John 1:1-14 There’s no manger, no shepherds. No Bethlehem. No angels, Joseph, or even Mary. In the first few verses of today’s Gospel, there isn’t even a world yet. In Mark’s Gospel we’re taken back to the beginning of Jesus’s public life. In Matthew we are presented his ancestry and his […]

Sunday, December 24, 2023 (night): Luke 2:1-14 As we break open the scriptures, may God be among us; light in the midst of us; bringing us to light and life. Amen. The observance and celebration of Christmas is a bit different for everyone, and different from era to era, and place to place. It’s a […]

The Fourth Sunday of Advent: 2 Sam 7:1-11, 16 The Magnificat Romans 16:25-27 Luke 1:26-38 One of my early pandemic projects was a video (on our YouTube channel) about Mary, and the role she plays (or doesn’t play) in the lives of some Anglican friends (and also some Roman Catholic friends). Archbishop Linda Nicholls, Primate […]

The Second Sunday of Advent: Isaiah 40:1-11 1 Peter 3:8-15a Mark 1:1-8 From the mid 1800s to mid 1900s there lived a brilliant Episcopalian (i.e. American Anglican) woman named Vida Scudder. She was a professor, author, and activist, and had been one of the first women ever admitted to graduate studies at Oxford University. In […]