Today was Orange Shirt Sunday. It is the Sunday the Presbyterian Church in Canada remembers our role in residential schools in Canada; we remember and we repent. Residential schools were part of the Canadian government’s attempt to erase the indigenous people from Canada. It is occasionally dressed up to be less offensive, but a cultural…
Today is September 29. Orange Shirt Day is September 30 so it is no surprise that the Presbyterian Church in Canada names this Sunday Truth and Reconciliation Sunday. I don’t often divert from the Revised Common Lectionary, by which I mean I virtually never divert from the Lectionary. The Holy Spirit in her graciousness has…
Trinity Sunday comes every year and I’m glad it does. If you look back over the past years you will find a number of sermons I have preached looking at the Trinity as a doctrine and what it means to me, to you, to us. This year is a departure from most (all?) past Trinity…