So many times every day we find ourselves where we are not supposed to be. I am not referring to places where we go with our body: physically we usually are where we have to be – we are up during the day and in bed at night, go to our workplace on time, return […]
Sermon Topic: Lent
Learning to See the Wilderness
I come to you in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Good Morning beloved church. I am Father Preston. Gonzalez-Grissom and I am the new Assistant Priest for Children and Family Ministry. There are many ways I could introduce myself, but I’d like to start with […]
'Love that is perfected by death'
This will be my tenth Ash Wednesday, and as I thought about my homily, I thought how much anxiety and tension is in the world and closer to home at the moment. So, I am going to read you a story instead of a sermon. Today, Ash Wednesday is also Valentine’s Day; I sent some […]
Sermon for the Last Sunday After the Epiphany, 2024
Can I begin by thanking Rector Carl for inviting me to preach this morning. It is an honour to be here with you on my flying visit to New York. My name is Dylan Turner and I work at Lambeth Palace as Archbishop Justin’s Anglican Communion Relations Officer. It’s a really varied and busy role. […]
“Unbind him, and let him go.”
The Greek translated in King James Version as Jesus ‘groaning in the spirit’ 1. is extraordinary, for the first word has its roots in the snorting noise made by a horse. This very strong word is connected with a sense of indignation experienced deep within Jesus – in his very soul. To emphasize it, the […]
'The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision’.
-Helen Keller
To be without sight – temporarily, suddenly, or permanently from birth – means that a person will experience the world in a new way: physical, emotional, and even spiritual. Helen Keller, born in Alabama in 1880, and who lost her sight and her hearing as a result of a childhood illness, refused to give in […]
The choices we make influence the stories that we will tell.
Yesterday, I was sent an extraordinary copy of a letter, typed on an old typewriter from the 1970s. It was a letter that was sent from one of the most important world leaders at the time, but it was written to someone whom he had not yet met, and whom he knew might never meet, […]
Remember that thou art dust
In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Remember that thou art dust. It is a terrifyingly vulnerable thing to discover yourself Fully seen. Fully known. And, despite it all, Fully loved. By the one who sees all the secret places of our hearts. By God. Terrifying, […]
Invitation to the Adventure
Many of you already know this, but for those of you who don’t know it, Or for those of you who’ve somehow avoided admitting it to yourselves… …it’s time to get excited because: Wednesday is Ash Wednesday. Lent. Starts. Wednesday. And yes, I did say: it’s time to get excited, Because it’s actually a very […]
