by Tyler Callum | Jan 22, 2019 | Worship
Dear Friends, I remember my eldest son’s history teacher explaining to the parents at orientation that if she said something was a certain way then it was the truth, even if she was wrong. She later proved the veracity of her statement when my son had the audacity to...
by Tyler Callum | Jan 7, 2019 | Worship
Dear Friends, This coming Sunday, we remember the travelers who visited the infant Jesus at his birth. They came bearing gifts – gold, frankincense and myrrh – and came from a far place following a distant star. They came seeking power and expected a king. They...
by Tyler Callum | Jan 3, 2019 | Worship
Dear Friends, In the pause after the mystery of Christmas Day, we pay little attention to the feast days that follow immediately after: that of St. Stephen the martyr (depicted above), the first to die for our faith; that of St. John, Apostle and Evangelist and the...
by Tyler Callum | Jan 3, 2019 | Worship
Dear Friends, In the church in which I grew up, I recall being fascinated by the church crèche. We didn’t have any kind of nativity scene at my home, so this immense crèche, dragged out from storage each year, was very impressive. Many years before, some faithful...
by Tyler Callum | Nov 19, 2018 | Worship
Dear Friends, Next Sunday, the last Sunday of the church year, is kept as the Feast of Christ the King. It seems strange to use the title “king” about Jesus in a world with a long history of corrupt and ineffective monarchs. In our own age, such concepts seem alien...
