Dave Langille

The Anglican tradition, as I have received it: "the absolute priority of the Bible, a catholic loyalty to the sacraments, and a habit of cultural sensitivity and intellectual flexibility." ⚓ --Rowan Williams

In your charity, please pray for us in the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota gathering in Convention. May its motto be its guide: "Peace Through the Blood of the Cross". ⚓

About the Anglican Church of Canada's “Pastoral Liturgies at the Time of Death in Contexts of Medically Assisted Dying", Ben Crosby writes: "We must reject this document as a capitulation, in the name of love and the suspension of judgement, to a culture of death". tinyurl.com/2mdcehur

October, And the trees are stripped bare, Of all they wear, What do I care? October , And kingdoms rise, And kingdoms fall, But you go on, And on. --U2

For Michaelmas. Not in flights of romantic fantasy, not in abstract curiosity, nor in occult bemusement; but in the immediate concerns of our relations to one another in a dispirited world, we are called to ally ourselves with the spiritual powers of God’s providential care. --Robert Crouse

I always liked this one.

Canada minus context.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross. --Flannery O'Connor

Nourish Gordon Shadrach 2022

I've been giving the good news from the report, but here's the more critical, growing edge: The study identifies personal invitation as among the strongest leads for an engine leading to growth, and we're doing next to nothing to capitalize on this. #TECTrajectory 📕

After three weeks of vacation, I returned to preach and preside today feeling all the privilege, weight, and joy of this ministry. ⚓

The tragic degradation of trust: As a CDN who lives in the USA, I once enjoyed describing Canada to my American friends and family, and describing America to my Canadian friends and family. Now I dread these conversations. Here's to a restoration of trust.

I was invited onto @alexdjfrost.bsky.social podcast to talk about estates, working class vocations and heavy metal. You can check it out on YouTube. www.robbsutherland.com/blog/alexfro...

Looking at Jesus seriously changes things; if we do not want to be changed, it is better not to look too hard or too long. --Rowan Williams

Canadians, tell me where in Canada you're from, without telling me where in Canada you're from? 🇨🇦 (As for me, I'm from the home of these two Canadian icons).

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

Have to admit the emotional letdown this morning. The World Cup provided this preacher with a month of sermon illustrations. Now I need to go and watch the Odyssey, or something, right?

Patience trains up the longing. Wait, for he waits. Walk on steadfastly that you may reach the end. He will not leave that place to which you are moving. --St. Augustine

and to us sinners everlasting life

Worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness. After several weeks of travel--Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Tennessee, Wisconsin--it is good to be settled back at Messiah, St. Paul, for the next month.

Can we get VAR for liturgy? On an unrelated note, I wonder how much it costs to build a Title IV Jail.

Best Church sign ever!

Such a holy place to pray. All Souls' Chapel, St. Peter's Cathedral, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

Happy Father's Day to all those who are blessed to share the privilege. In the words of that great Canadian, Red Green: Remember, I'm pulling for you. We're all in this together. 😉

Happy longest day of the year, to all who celebrate.

Morning light at Messiah, St. Paul. The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple. --Psalm 119:130

I forgive them.

I've agreed not to use Generative AI to write sermons. More info here: saintdunstanpledge.org ⚓

Few of us have it all that hard. Lest we forget. The 3rd Canadian Infantry Division landing at Juno Beach on D-Day.

Today is our youngest lad's birthday. To celebrate I like to share this drawing of yours truly at my ordination, drawn by a then very bored nine year old.

I always liked this one.

Come Holy Spirit, come like a fire and burn. Come like a wind and cleanse. Convict, convert, and consecrate our hearts to our great good and to your great glory. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. --Fleming Rutledge ⚓

As clergy I am supposed to remind you to wear red for Pentecost Sunday. May I suggest...

This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it! --Psalm 118:24 (Image: Cathedral of St. Paul, St. Paul, Minnesota, Karen Anderson)

In heart and mind thither ascending! "Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven". The Ascension window, Messiah, St. Paul.

I certify that this edition of The Book of Common Prayer has been compared with a certified copy of the Standard Book, as the Canon directs, and that it conforms thereto.

You know something is messed up if all three Episcopal bishops in TN issue a statement about it. ⚓

It might be bending the rubrics, but whenever I pray the Litany I've been praying this for the three postulants from Messiah, St. Paul. I am happy to report that two have recently been made candidates for ordination. ⚓

Morning Prayer was highly motivating, how I long to finish my course.

In our sickness we need a savior, in our wanderings a guide, in our blindness someone to show us the light, in our thirst the living water...We dead people need life, we sheep need a shepherd, we children need a teacher, the whole world needs Jesus! --Clement of Alexandria

I was delighted to be with the Rev. Chris Boehm Carlson, Messiah's former Curate and Priest Associate, who has served as Priest in Charge at the Church of the Hoy Communion, St. Peter, MN. Rev. Chris was inducted as Holy Communion's next Rector by Bishop Loya last Wednesday. ⚓

Great wisdom here.

RIP Michael Tilson Thomas. Growing up attending the San Francisco Symphony, I was inspired by his interpretations of Mahler, which were especially thrilling as a French Horn player. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/a...

Let it be accounted folly, or frenzy, or fury. It is our wisdom and our comfort; we care for no knowledge in the world but this, that the man hath sinned and God hath suffered; that God hath made himself the sin of men, and that men are made the righteousness of God. --Richard Hooker

Making plans to attend this year's Atlantic Theological Conference, as "An exploration of the Anglicanism which defined Dr. Crouse, we will consider, amongst others, poetical sermons and writings of Lancelot Andrewes, John Donne, George Herbert, John Keble and Austin Farrer". ⚓

The banality of vulgarity. The banality of idolatry. The banality of AI generated dreck.

The strife is o'er, the battle done; the victory of life is won; the song of triumph has begun. Alleluia! The powers of death have done their worst, but Christ their legions has dispersed. Let shouts of holy joy outburst. Alleluia!