Rev’d Gavin Dunbar – St. John's Church, in Savannah

The Last Old Book

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…

The Gifts of the Holy Spirit – III

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…

The Gifts of the Holy Spirit – II

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,…

The Gifts of the Holy Spirit-I

The Spirit upon Christ and in Us Last Sunday, the Tenth Sunday after Trinity, we heard St Paul’s teaching on the gifts of the Holy Spirit: “Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit” (1 Corinthians 12:4). It’s remarkable…

Divinized Humanity and Humanized Divinity

Vol. 57 No. 37 | The Tenth Sunday after Trinity | August 9, 2026 According to the fifth-century Creed of Saint Athanasius, the union of divine and human natures in the person of Christ does not consist in the “conversion of…

Raphael’s Transfiguration

Vol. 57 No. 36 | The Ninth Sunday after Trinity | August 2, 2026 The Feast of the Transfiguration on August 6 has not always occupied the place it does now. Though long celebrated in the Christian East as one of…

Burying the Dead

Vol. 57 No. 35 | The Eighth Sunday after Trinity | July 26, 2026 Earlier this summer I had occasion to read the Burial Office with a congregation that was unfamiliar with the Book of Common Prayer, and I realized how…

Praying for the Church (5)

Vol. 57 No. 34 | The Seventh Sunday after Trinity | July 19, 2026 Suffering and Hope The Prayer for the Church ends where every Christian life must finally end: in suffering, death, and the hope of eternal life. After praying…

Praying for the Church (4)

Vol. 57 No. 33 | Sixth Sunday after Trinity | July 12, 2026 Hearing and Receiving Having prayed for the Church as a whole, for the rulers of society, and for those entrusted with the ministry of Word and Sacrament, the…

Praying for the Church (3)

Vol. 57 No. 32 | Fifth Sunday after Trinity | July 5, 2026 How Christ Builds the ChurchThe Prayer for the Church asks first for the church as a whole, its unity in truth and love, and then for the rulers…

Praying for the Church (2)

Vol. 57 No. 31 | Fourth Sunday after Trinity | June 28, 2026 The Church in the World One of the striking features of the Prayer for the Church is how quickly it turns our attention away from ourselves. In the…

Praying for the Church (1)

Vol. 57 No. 30 | Third Sunday after Trinity | June 21, 2026 Praying Our Mission A mission statement says what an organization exists to do, what it hopes to become, and what principles guide its life. In the Prayer for…