Two weeks ago all of the clergy from our diocese including the clergy here and all of our lay deputies from the diocese including the lay people who are deputies for our church here attended the Diocese of North Carolina’s Annual Convention in Winston-Salem…
Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God and now you will conceive in your womb and bear a son and you will name him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the son of the most high. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David. He will reign over the House of Jacob forever and of his kingdom there will be no end…
Lauren, after tonight, you will be authorized, by virtue of your ordination to the sacred order of priests, to celebrate the Eucharist. Doubtless plans are already in place for your first celebration of the Eucharist, and I know you will want to cherish the experience, and you will want it to be memorable…
Today we celebrate All Saints Day. We celebrate the baptisms of Morgan Oliver, of Margaret Abigail, and of Jackson Tyler. Today is a very, very special day in the life of the church. Many of you may have heard last week that my grandfather John Kilbourn passed away on October 25. On that Thursday I had the opportunity to fly to Florida to be with my grandmother…
A few years ago I had the opportunity to work as a hospital chaplain in one of the most delicate places I have ever set foot—UNC hospital’s Medical Intensive Care Unit. This was a place of threshold for most people…
In our Psalm (78) this morning, Verse 4 says, “We will recount to generations to come the praiseworthy deeds of the power of the Lord and the wonderful works He has done.” Now I’ve been here for about a month and I’m still getting to know you and since you’re still getting to know me too, I thought I’d tell you a little story about myself. I grew up in Florida. Every summer I went to a Christian camp in Leesburg which is at the heart of central Florida in the swamp…
Thousands and thousands of years ago a young Hebrew boy was born to a woman. His mother kept her son for three months before realizing that he would have a better chance of survival if she stuck him in a basket and put him down the river rather than trying to keep him hidden from those who would seek to destroy young Hebrew boys. As God’s portion would have it the baby was found and drawn up out of the water by Pharoh’s daughter who took him as her own son…