This is the Sunday closest to Remembrance Day and as such we had some moments of remembrance in the service. As I specifically mention in at least one of the sermons, I don’t preach on secular calendar events. There is nothing wrong with those events but we are Revised Common Lectionary churches and it is […]
Remembrance Sunday
Remembrance Sunday isn’t the easiest of Sundays for me . . . and lots of other folks too of course. It isn’t that it triggers my combat related PTSD, I don’t have combat related PTSD, rather it triggers a wave of emotions. Emotions like regret and sadness but also gratitude and joy. I think it […]
Remembrance Day is coming
Remembrance Day is on its way and, as it the pattern with the two churches I preach at, that makes today Remembrance Sunday. I can imagine some of you wondering why I, of all people, would do anything special or different for the last Sunday before Remembrance Day. I can imagine the questions: “Wait. Aren’t […]