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Good morning Stone Church.  This is a sermon about racism. Believe it or not, in the fifteen years that I have been an Anglican Priest, I have not preached on the subject of racism.  But today I am.  I’d like to start by sharing a couple of experiences with you— experiences that might give you…

Since the outbreak of the pandemic, our policy makers have had to make a number of tough calls; among them, which services ought to remain available to the public and which services ought to be, for the time being, closed down.  In short, they’ve had to come up with a list of essential and non-essential…

In the weeks that have past, Jasmine and I— like so many other church leaders all across the world— have sought to provide online services for our parishioners, now sequestered in their homes during this time of necessary social distancing.  After six weeks of doing so, the process has become a familiar, almost comforting, pandemic…

It’s the evening of Jesus’ arrest. After supper with his disciples, he goes to the Garden of Gethsemane on the Mount of Olives— a familiar place that all of his disciples (including Judas Iscariot) knew well. Jesus knows that Judas will lead a group of armed men to this place to arrest him and yet…

HOW TO SURVIVE SOCIAL ISOLATION IN 5 EASY STEPS.  If Jasmine and I had a super power it would be this: Drawing ordinary people into small, life-giving communities that meet together, face-to-face, in the real world.  We run book clubs, support groups, Bible studies, child and youth programs and community drop-ins.  We encourage people, not…

ADDICTION AND HOPE Addictions are ruthless and destructive. That’s a lesson I’ve known for most of my life but, for some reason, God has seen fit to reinforce over the course of these past two weeks of my ministry. A short while ago— on a brisk, overcast day when the temperature had dropped to something…

The most ominous picture the scriptures paint of Christ’s second coming is found in the Revelation to Saint John: “Behold, I am coming like a thief!” (Rev. 16:5).    It’s not a picture I’m fond of dwelling on: The Lord as home invader, coming unbidden in the quiet hours of the night, prowling about unseen…

Years ago when I worked at an After School Program I remember a mom catching her son in some act of misdemeanour yelling “What is wrong with you?” as she hurried him out the door. Those words “What is wrong with you” have been used on a very frequent basis with a whole host of…