April 21, 2024 — The Rev. Canon Britt Olson
The Good Shepherd The first time I served as the clergy with cure, in other words, the clergy with charge for the care of a congregation, was in Northern Nevada. … Read More
April 14, 2024 — The Rev Canon Britt Olson
Most of us are wounded. Most of us hide our wounds. We carry around our shame, grief and blame secretly. When we feel wronged and are suffering from an injustice we are like the psalmist who cries out, “How long, you people, shall my honor suffer shame? How long will you love vain words, and seek after lies?”… Read More
April 7, 2024 — Rev Danáe Ashley
How then, do we heal? What do we do with the wounds? In our Eucharistic Prayer C we proclaim together, “By his wounds, we are healed.” Jesus appeared to the disciples in the Upper Room with his wounds saying, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” God has sent Jesus to them—to us—with his wounds in the ongoingness of life after trauma and death.… Read More
March 31, 2024 — Rev Canon Britt Olson
Can we, with the women, hear the voice of the messenger who simply proclaims, “Do not be alarmed; you are looking for Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has been raised.”… Read More
March 10, 2024 — Rev. Mary Petty Anderson
All of which brings me to the book of Numbers, fourth book in the Old Testament, not your typical Bible hotspot. Now we’re here with serpents in the wilderness and being bitten, people dying, in an exodus from slavery. We are present in the company of Moses: “So Moses made a serpent of bronze, and put it on a pole, and whenever a serpent bit someone, that person would look at the serpent of bronze and live.” What an amazing story. Where did that come from?… Read More
January 21, 2024 – Epiphany III & Annual Meeting Sunday – The Rev. Canon Britt Olson
Too often it seems like we are living in the “in between” times. We can’t go back to the way things were, yet we live in both hope and fear … Read More
December 24, 2023 — Christmas Eve — The Rev Canon Britt Olson
Christmas Eve Service, 7 pm in the St. Luke’s Chapel It is both a joy and a privilege to be with you in this special chapel on this holy night. … Read More
December 3, 2023 — Advent 1 — The Rev Mary Petty Anderson
Respite Halifax, Nova Scotia, right on the edge of the Atlantic, has the second deepest, largest, ice-free harbor in the world, second only to Sydney, Australia. Thousands of people, tens … Read More
November 26, 2023 — Kristen Daley Mosier
Christ the King Sunday Evidently I have not experienced enough cycles with the lectionary to know when the challenging passages come around. I thought Christ the King Sunday would have … Read More
November 12, 2023 — The Rev. Canon Britt Olson
If we are to be ready for whatever lies ahead, we must choose love this day. And we will need to keep choosing it when the way becomes unclear or difficult; when we are anxious and afraid; when we are harmed by others. We choose love as an article of faith and the most powerful response to any situation.… Read More