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Sermon at St. David’s, Cheraw
March 5, 2023 – The Second Sunday in Lent When I gave birth to our first-born child, it was a long labor. Twenty-three hours long, to be precise. At the end of the whole ordeal, when George had presented himself to the world, and I, too, was presentable, my brother ushered my father into the…
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Sermon at St. Mark’s, Port Royal & Porter-Gaud School
Sermon for the First Sunday in Lent offered at St. Mark’s, Port Royal (February 26, 2023) and at Porter-Gaud School (March 2, 2023) One of my favorite memories from our son George’s toddler years was an afternoon when things got very quiet in our house. Now, when things are too quiet and there’s a toddler…
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Sermon at St. John’s, Johns Island
February 19, 2023 – The Last Sunday after the Epiphany Good morning, St. John’s! What an absolute joy it is for me to be with you today! I’ve been so eager to get here. Your priest, the Rev. Canon Calhoun Walpole, better known to all here and across our diocese as Callie, is a gift…
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Sermon at The Episcopal Church in Okatie
Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany – February 5, 2023As a child, I loved gardening with my mother. From the time I was very young, I took delight in the whole process. Mama taught me how to push a seed into the soil, to water and watch it grow. I caught on from an early age…
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Sermon at St. Bartholomew’s, Hartsville
Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany – January 29, 2023 When I was a girl, my parents would sometimes invite me to offer the blessing at our family dinner table. I think I had absorbed even at my young age that the main point of saying grace was to ask God to bless the food and…
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Sermon at St. James, Charleston (James Island)
January 22, 2023 – Third Sunday after the Epiphany Just two months before the pandemic shut the world down, I helped our younger son, John, move into his dorm room after a semester abroad. It was a cold, rainy day when we moved him in. Getting his refrigerator up the two flights of stairs nearly…
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232nd Diocesan Convention – Bishop’s Address
“For I am about to create new heavens and a new earth; the former things shall not be remembered or come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I am creating; for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy, and its people as a delight….The wolf and the lamb will…
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232nd Diocesan Convention – Bishop’s Opening Address
“For Demus Sake.” That is what my older brothers thought they heard my grandfather say each time he blessed our food around our table at holiday gatherings when we were all young. The question among our generation for years was, “Who is Demus?” A long lost relative? A little known saint? We were never quite…
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