Rev'd Gavin Dunbar

Vol. 57 No. 49 | All Saints’ Sunday (Trinity 22) | November 1, 2026 Identity matters. Unless we know who or what we are, we cannot make rational choices about what to do. Our choices will be determined instead by passing…

Vol. 57 No. 48 | The Twenty-first Sunday after Trinity | October 25, 2026 Last week Tolkien’s Leaf by Niggle showed us how God brings our own individual gifts to perfection by bringing us into communion with others. C. S. Lewis’s…

Vol. 57 No. 47 | The Feast of St. Luke (Trinity 20) | October 18, 2026 “Pie in the sky, by and by, when you die”: the unbeliever’s taunt may carry more weight than we care to admit. By and large,…

Vol. 57 No. 46 | The Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity | October 11, 2026 The reports of the attack aboard flight FZ1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv last week were riveting. Two hours into the flight, the Omani-Syrian co-pilot Hamam al-Hammami…

Vol. 57 No. 45 | Michaelmas Sunday (Trinity 18) | October 4, 2026 Some years ago, I attended Sunday worship with some friends at an Anglican church in the Caribbean. The service was… leisurely. Just when I thought we were almost…

Vol. 57 No. 44 | The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity | September 27, 2026 Savannah would hardly be Savannah without its trees. The great canopy of live oaks spreading above our streets and squares seems almost timeless. Yet much of the…

Vol. 57 No. 43 | The Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity | September 20, 2026 This reflection is based on the first of three Forums on the Anglican Future, concerning Memory. The next Forum is Sunday, October 25th, on Identity. When we…

Vol. 57 No. 42 | The Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity | September 13, 2026 When the Gospel Goes Missing Some people on their vacations go wine-tasting, but I go sermon-tasting. It is a rare opportunity for me to hear what other…

Vol. 57 No. 41 | The Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity | September 6, 2026 The Last Old Book Years ago, in my final year at seminary, I was in the library when another seminarian returned a book of assigned readings. It…

Vol. 57 No. 40  The Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity  August 30, 2026 For the Edifying of the Body The Prayer Book of 1552 explains that Confirmation should be administered “to the more edifying” of those who receive it, appealing explicitly to…

Vol. 57 No. 39  The Twelfth Sunday after Trinity   August 23, 2026 Strengthened for the Fight The classical Prayer Book’s Confirmation prayer asks for the baptized to be strengthened by the sevenfold gifts of the Spirit—wisdom and understanding, counsel and strength,…