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Genesis 2:4b-8, 18-23 Song of Solomon 2:8-13 Galatians 3:23-29 Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30
Rhythms of Grace
“I do not understand the mystery of grace – only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.” — Anne Lamott
If our forebears could join us today, I can only imagine the range of their reactions to Pride Sunday. “What?! a Sunday to celebrate one of the Seven Deadly Sins? What has the world come to? I suppose you have a Greed and Gluttony Sunday as well?” And we would get to explain that ‘Pride’ in this context is not about one of the cardinal sins, but about undoing the millennia of shaming that human societies and the church [...]
 On Sunday, June 26th, 2011 the Rev. Jim Ferry’s license as priest was reinstated by Archbishop Colin Johnson of the Diocese of Toronto, and he was appointed Honorary Assistant of Holy Trinity, Trinity Square. It is 20 years since he was made an outcast by the previous Bishop of Toronto, Terence Finlay, for being in a same sex relationship. His outing and subsequent public trial in a Bishop’s Court garnered worldwide media attention.
Jim’s sermon “Pride and Prejudice” marked the opening of Toronto’s Pride Week celebrations at Holy Trinity, and highlighted the Pride 2011 theme: You Belong. It is available [...]
Readings: Acts 2:42-47; Psalm 23; 1 Peter 2:19-25; John 10:1-10
When I received this week’s readings after having agreed to share this morning, I will be honest and say I had a sinking feeling. A guilty, sinking feeling. A feeling that I would, in the process of preparing this homily, have to face something I mostly avoid because I’m just not sure what to do with it. So today I will share, but I will share in many ways the anxieties of the rich. And I want to recognize up front that for many in our midst, these are not your anxieties. And that reality is in some ways at the heart of the question. [...]
 Briallen Hopper is a divinity student at Yale, a faith blogger, and a future leader of the Church of NALT. She shared her Passion Week sermon with Dan Savage and gave him permission to post it on his blog. This is an incredible piece of writing that get’s to the heart of the the Christian message for us today. [...]
 My journey of Lent started with an air flight to Los Angeles to visit my daughter and her family last week. I had packed the book Best Laid Plans and was about to begin reading it when my seat mate asked me about the book. I talked about the CBC Canada Reads contest and the books chosen for this year, some of which I had read.
My seat mate, Yilmaz Alimogul, told me that he was an author and had recently published his first book. In response to my enthusiasm and questions, he presented me with a copy.
I began reading it at once and in response to my questions about the setting and circumstances of the story Yilmaz disclosed that [...]
Seventh Sunday after Epiphany, Year A
Matthew 5:38-48
Church of the Holy Trinity
20 February 2011
Jesus asks, “What more are you doing than others?”
Here at Holy Trinity preachers often give titles to their sermons. In Matthew’s gospel Jesus gives a title to his entire ministry: Repent, for the reign of heaven has come near. In his Sermon on the Mount, a portion of which we just heard, Jesus sets out how his listeners are to repent in order to allow the reign of heaven, coming near, to break through.
To put today’s gospel reading in context, we need to ask three questions: What does it mean to repent? What is the reign of heaven? How do Jesus’ teachings about [...]
 “Salt of the earth” is one of those phrases that’s entered the language in ways quite different from the original intention. These days, it seems to be mostly a sort of condescending compliment — “Farmers! Aren’t they just the salt of the earth?” — somehow associated with hard work and “traditional” values and a sort of imaginary solidity and stability.
This rather ignores the fact that salt is, in fact, quite a peculiar and volatile substance. Our bodies need salt – we can’t live long without it. My husband, as a young man, once tried to eliminate salt from his diet entirely and then cycle up the Fraser Valley, and ended up in an A&W outside Mission in a state of [...]
To remember is to work for Peace
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Encompassed
A Homily for November 14, Peace Sunday
I am ethnically Mennonite, of the Russian variety, and a while back, I was a part of a Mennonite Church. That’s where I first encountered this button. Mennonites wear it instead of poppies on Remembrance Day. This is how the MCC Canada’s peace program coordinator, explains it:
“Not wearing poppies, and questioning Canada’s war effort is equated with being unpatriotic. However, our intention is not to undercut the sacrifice made by so many people. But we want to remember all who suffer because of war, not just our own soldiers. And we want to challenge the idea that war is necessary.”
The button has become [...]
 Homily at the Ordination to the Priesthood of Joyce Barnett
September 14, 2010: The Church of the Holy Trinity (Gospel text: John 12: 20-36)
Jennifer Henry
Last month I read The Jerusalem Testament–sixty-eight ecumenical statements from the heads of the churches located in Jerusalem, spanning the period from 1998 to 2008. Some full treatises, some gestures of hope, some letters of desperation–each were a fragment of the contextual theology of Palestinian Christians. I was struck that amongst the gut-wrenching statements triggered by dramatic news events, there were the annual messages of Christmas and Easter, of Bethlehem and Golgotha. In the midst of the terror happening around them, ordinary moments in the church year were consistently marked. In the midst [...]
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