Why would anybody want to be a Christian?  The Church can be boring, backward, narrow-minded and out of touch.  Christians can be bigoted, hypocritical, and stupid.  And religion can give some people a twisted justification for evil.  When we see Christian bigotry in Uganda, Russia or the USA, why would anybody want to be one […]

Au nom de la sainte et indivise Trinité: un seul Dieu, maintenant et pour toujours.  Amen. We gather joyfully in the presence of God, but also in the shadow of Orlando and continued acts of homophobic violence around the world.  We come together around this table to celebrate word and sacrament, a proud and defiant […]

(The Pokémon Go Sermon)

Is there enough love to go around? This week if you, like me, were watching the live feed from General Synod, you know that we witnessed some very moving and also some very hurtful exchanges in the Anglican Church of Canada   … and now this morning’s Gospel seems also to offer a mixture of hope […]

So what were pigs doing next to the sea of Galilee?  There wasn’t much demand for Pork in 1st century Palestine.  And why did Jesus let the poor pigs die? And what happened to the pig farmers once their livelihood was gone?  And why is the man called ‘Legion’?  This is a Gospel story which raises […]

Do you see her? Do you see this woman? This is Jesus’ question to Simon. It is a question that as a woman who has been in the church all of her life, I too have asked. The stories of women in the Bible are few and far between. At times it feels like a […]

HOMILY—PENTECOST 3—The God of the Margins In the name of the one, holy and undivided Trinity: Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer.  Amen. What might it mean to live on the margins?  There are several ways one can approach this question.  The first, and perhaps most obvious for us, is the economic perspective.  Living on the margins […]

(Sermon preached at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Quebec City) Thank you for inviting me to preach this morning, in this first Anglican cathedral to be built outside the British Isles. I remember when I was back in England, having a conversation with a young woman who was just about to take up […]

The Roman Catholic priest Richard Rohr writes this about the Trinity: “Trinity leads us into the world of mystery and humility where we cannot understand, we can only experience”  “Where we cannot understand, we can only experience.” But how exactly do we experience Trinity?  For me it has been in experiencing God’s love flowing through […]