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The Second Sunday of Easter, Year C, St. Bartholomew’s Church, Nashville, April 27, 2025

April 27, 2025

“Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book” (Jo. 20:30). Easter is a season, not a day. The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is such […]

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Easter Vigil, Year C, Christ Church Cathedral, Nashville, April 19, 2025

April 21, 2025

“But these words seemed to them an idle tale, and they did not believe them” (Lk. 24:11). Our Vigil service this evening began with readings from the Old Testament: part of a liturgy traditionally seen as the Church’s […]

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Consecration of Chrism & Renewal of Ordination Vows, Christ Church Cathedral, Nashville, April 14, 2025

April 14, 2025

“The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not be in want” (Ps. 23:1). The image of the shepherd is tightly bound up with the story of Israel. The family of Abraham were shepherds, after all, bringing their flocks […]

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The Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year C, Church of SS. Mark & Paul, Sewanee, April 6, 2025

April 06, 2025

“This one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus” (Phil. 3:13-14). Sports fans […]

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Saturday in the Fourth Week of Lent, Daughters of the King Spring Assembly, Church of the Epiphany, Lebanon, April 5, 2025

April 05, 2025

“Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let the one who believes in me drink” (Jo. 7: 37-38). By my calculation, this is the twenty-eighth day of Lent: twenty-eight days into it, with twelve more to […]

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Wednesday in the Fourth Week of Lent, St. Andrew’s – Sewanee School, April 2, 2025

April 02, 2025

“Lord, you have searched me out and known me…” (Ps. 139:1). “Know thyself”: this was saying inscribed upon the ancient Temple of Apollo at Delphi; an invitation to philosophic introspection and to the journey within. Who are we? […]

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The Fourth Sunday in Lent, Year C, St. Luke’s Church, Springfield, March 30, 2025

March 31, 2025

“So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation” (2 Cor. 5:17). The Big Bang theory posits that the universe began with an explosion of energy, of heat and light, that expanded rapidly and eventually resulted […]

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The Second Sunday in Lent, Year C, Grace Chapel, Rossview, March 16, 2025

March 16, 2025

“But our citizenship is in heaven, and it is from there that we are expecting a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ” (Phil. 3:20). St. Paul wrote the Letter to the Philippians to a small group of Christians who […]

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The First Sunday in Lent, Year C, Grace Church, Spring Hill, March 9, 2025

March 10, 2025

“The Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm”(Deut. 26:8). Students of the Scriptures tell us that our first reading, from Deuteronomy, contains one of the most ancient confessions of faith that we find […]

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Final Service at St. Andrew’s Church, New Johnsonville, Commemoration of St. Andrew, Apostle, March 3, 2025

March 04, 2025

“’Follow me, and I will make you fish for people.’ Immediately they left their nets and followed him” (Matt. 4:19-20). Today we return to the beginning, where this church started: under the providential patronage of St. Andrew the […]

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The Last Sunday after Epiphany, Year C, Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Fayetteville, March 2, 2025

March 02, 2025

“And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another”(2 Cor. 3:18). Ancient Israel had […]

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Commemoration of St. David of Wales, Bishop’s Day with Wardens, Treasurers, Vestry Members, St. George’s Church, Nashville, March 1, 2025

March 01, 2025

“The kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground” (Mk. 4:26). Most of us have lives that are pretty distant from the land; and most of us are probably unfamiliar with the way […]

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The Seventh Sunday after Epiphany, Year C, Church of the Redeemer, Shelbyville, February 23, 2025

February 24, 2025

“And he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them” (Gen. 45:18). When Christians read the Old Testament, they see in it the figure of the New: in other words, when we read the ancient stories of the […]

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The Sixth Sunday after Epiphany, Year C, St. Agnes’ Church, Cowan, February 16, 2025

February 18, 2025

“The heart is devious above all else; it is perverse– who can understand it?” (Jer. 17:9). “What was he thinking?”: it’s the sort of thing we say when we are confronted by unaccountable and inexplicable human behavior. True […]

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Orientale Lumen Conference, Virginia Seminary, February 14, 2025

February 15, 2025

“They were on the road, going up to Jerusalem”(Mk. 10:32). We are very grateful to the Dean and staff of Virginia Seminary this year for hosting the Orientale Lumen Conference, and for gathering us for worship at this […]

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The Fifth Sunday after Epiphany, Year C, St. Matthew’s Church, McMinnville, February 9, 2025

February 10, 2025

“Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips” (Is. 6:5). In January I was with a bishop from East Africa, a friend from the last few years, who was speaking about the […]

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