Author Archives: Dawn Leger
About Dawn Leger
I am a priest in the Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, having served in Stouffville, Ontario. I think preaching is a profound and great privilege granted to us by God and our Church. I love the reading, the writing, the proclaiming, the dissecting and the dialogue. I also love to cook, sing, read and laugh, in no particular order.Now you just listen to me!…Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost Sept. 7, 2014
For Jesus there is no room for vengeance, revenge or seeing anyone, not even the offender, “knocked down a few pegs.” Continue reading
Pentecost 10: a direct conversation
We can use the skills of art appreciation to help open up a text for preaching. Continue reading
On preaching without a manuscript
On the urging of parishioners, I have started to preach without a manuscript. I’m learning, and I learned a good lesson this past Sunday. Continue reading
Being pastoral: St. Peter and St. Paul
Is “pastoral” a word laypeople use to describe their clergy? We clergy certainly use it a lot to describe an encounter or a relationship where we are caring for a person or a community. Continue reading
All this hopey changey stuff: how did Conversation 2014 work?
It has been a blast over the past 6 months or so being part of the planning team of Conversation 2014: Clergy under 40 talk to God and each other. Being the first of it’s kind in the Anglican Church of Canada, and including many of our most recent ordinands, it was clear this was going to look different from our typical clergy conferences. Continue reading
Where is God?
As the Rev. Peter Harris, rector of the Cathedral, stepped into the pulpit, she pointed at him, pulled my head down and, in her toddler shout whisper, asked, “Is that God?” Continue reading
August 25, 2013 14th Sunday after Pentecost
God grants us a great trust and authority when we are called. It’s quite unbelievable to me. How do we receive this trust? Do we cower away from it? Do we bury our authority under the guise of good manners and respect? How do we claim this authority that God has granted to us? Continue reading
July 21, 2013 Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Until our meetings spend more time in Bible study and prayer than we do on discussing which lightbulbs we will purchase or how we will raise money to replace the windows, we need to be convicted by this story of Mary and Martha. Continue reading
July 14, 2013 Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
As Christians we desperately lean on the grace of God to be forgiven of our sins. But grace does not excuse us from being judged. In fact, God’s love would mean very little to anyone of the pain we inflict on one another were simply dismissed. Continue reading
July 7, 2013 Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Sometimes, our task is to force the powers that be to recognize they are not above the law or humanity. No corporation, no government, no agency has a divine right to use the law or money to exploit others. Continue reading