The Example of the Widow’s Mite: An Example of What?
The Gospel lectionary reading for November 7th, when we will be observing All Saints’ Day and using the lectionary readings for that occasion, is the scene from St. Mark’s Gospel…
Sermons
October 17 2021
For 2000 years of Christian history, Christians have made two errors in how they think about Jesus Christ. The first error is the belief that because Jesus is God, He…
October 10 2021
Jesus says it would be easier “for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the kingdom of God.” Have you…
October 3 2021
When God created man, God said, “it is not good that man should be alone; I will make a helper fit for him.” What an odd turn of events this…
Hear What Comfortable Words
While I am, for better or for worse, one of those strange creatures referred to as a “cradle Episcopalian/Anglican,” it was not until my seminary training that I recall hearing…
September 26 2021
C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, creators of the worlds of Narnia and Middle Earth respectively, begin their stories of these worlds with a creation account, and something these two creation…
September 19 2021
In the classic movie, “The Princess Bride,” one character responds to situations over and over again in the same way, by saying “inconceivable!,” until Inigo Montoya, the protagonist in the…
September 12 2021
Last year I read a biography of Josef Stalin’s daughter Svetlana, who quite famously renounced her Soviet citizenship for U.S. citizenship in the 1960’s. I picked up the book because…
September 5 2021
There is a controversy among clergy regarding whether and how much we should counsel people with psychological disorders, or even common struggles like anxiety or depression. Of course, for those…
Anglicanism, Change, and the Great Christian Tradition
The Reverend Sandys Wason (1867-1950) was an eccentric, to put it charitably, Anglo-Catholic Priest and Perpetual Curate of Cury and Gunwalloe over the course of his surprisingly lengthy ministry career….
August 29 2021
If you have been in the church for any amount of time at all, you have probably heard many sermons on our Gospel reading from St. Mark’s Gospel, or one…
August 22 2021
I want to begin this morning by simply saying “thank you,” and by expressing my and my family’s gratitude for your warm welcome to us. We are so grateful, grateful…
From Fr. Matt, August 2021
I attended a Christian University for my undergraduate studies, and one of my closest friends in college left the Church during our senior year. He had many reasons for severing…
The Reverend Matt Rucker
It is with great joy and thanksgiving that we welcome Father Matthew Rucker to be the permanent rector at St. Peter’s. After a year-long search by the search committee, we…