This Sunday was Thanksgiving Sunday in Canada. As I have mentioned here, and in a sermon or two, I tend to pay little or no attention to the non-church calendar and instead focus on the church (or liturgical) calendar. This Sunday I ended up preaching about thankfulness, the sermon title was the question, “What are […]
Happy Thanksgiving
For those of you who watch this space every week to see what’s happening with two of the most excellent congregations ever, and also with me, there are no sermons this week. This is not due to a technical problem which I, through the grace of God, have never had. Rather, it is because I […]
Thanksgiving
It is that time of the year when even unrepentant urbanites think about harvests and such to give thanks. I’m no different. Some years the Lectionary readings coincide with “secular calendar” days quite well and then some years it doesn’t, like this year. The texts for this Sunday are not at all stereotypically thankful . […]