Father Bill reflects on resurrection: "The stone gets rolled away not once, in a garden, two thousand years ago -- it gets rolled away wherever people show up in the dark, still hoping, still reaching, still willing to look."

The texts for Easter Sunday (Year A) are Acts 10:34-43; Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24; Colossians 3:1-4; and John 20:1-18. Full texts can be found at The Lectionary Page.

Preached at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (Ojai, California) on April 5, 2026.

Father Bill reflects on spiritual sight: "The light is not something we manufacture. It is something that shines on us -- and then we are called to live from it."

The texts for the day (the Fourth Sunday in Lent, Year A) are 1 Samuel 16:1-13, Psalm 23, Ephesians 5:8-14, and John 9:1-41. Full texts can be found at The Lectionary Page.

Preached at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (Ojai, California) on March 15, 2026.

Father Bill reflects on being born again: "New birth is not always sudden or dramatic. For most of us it is gradual, a slow awakening to the fact

that we are already being loved into life, that the Spirit has been moving long before we thought to look for it.

The texts for the day (the Second Sunday in Lent, Year A) are Genesis 12:1–4a; Psalm 121 ; Romans 4:1–5, 13–17; and John 3:1–17. Full texts can be found at The Lectionary Page.

Preached at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church (Ojai, California) on March 1, 2026.