Heart of Darkness and Heart of Light
I remember this moment during my master’s degree where I was struggling to understand why certain professors thought I should pursue...
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Church of the Incarnation
- 4 days ago
- 4 min
The Impotence of Being Born from Below; the Gift of Being Borne from Above
In our Gospel reading this morning Jesus reveals what I’d say is the climax of the Christian faith: “For God so loved the world that he...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Feb 26
- 3 min
The Endless Well of Temptations
In our Gospel from Matthew this morning, Jesus is led by the Holy Spirit out into the wilderness where he is tempted by Satan. Now any...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Feb 22
- 3 min
Lent Begins: The humility of recognizing your limits
As we begin our journey to the cross this year, reflecting the ways in which we fall short of the glory God desires for us, let us...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Feb 22
- 5 min
Transfiguration
I love our reading from Exodus this morning. We hear about Moses going up on the mountain top to encounter God in all his power. How many...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Jan 15
- 4 min
Laboring in Change and Decay; O Thou who changest not abide with me
I’ve been reading a book called, “Leaving Christianity: changing allegiances in Canada since 1945.” It looks at a breadth of statistical...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Jan 1
- 5 min
God's Mission: the opposite of Despotic or Totalitarian Destruction
I’ve talked before about a book I’m reading on the origins of Totalitarianism: specifically, the regimes of Stalinist Russia and Hitler’s...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Dec 25, 2022
- 5 min
God Does not Stand Far off from our Suffering but transforms reality by enduring it
This morning we have a second celebration of Jesus’s birth. But our readings today certainly take us in a more theological direction as...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Dec 24, 2022
- 5 min
Christmas Eve: God comes into the world; right into the middle of our suffering. You are not alone.
We hear in our reading from Luke the most mundane description of the birth of this one promised by the angel. So mundane that it could...
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Church of the Incarnation
- Dec 18, 2022
- 5 min
Advent 4: The Figures of Courage
Whenever we get to this reading about Joseph and Mary during Advent, I always have to take a step back and think carefully about their...
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