The Rev. Scott Slater serves as Canon to the Ordinary in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. Following nine years as rector of Church of the Good Shepherd in Baltimore, he began serving on the bishops’ staff in July of 2010. As part of his role, he leads vestry retreats, assists congregations and clergy in conflict, and helps promote healthy leadership dynamics.
St. James' Episcopal Church – Mt. Airy, Maryland
Sermons on 2016 (Page 3)
Gracious God, take our minds and think through them; take our hands and work through them; take our hearts and set them on fire. Amen. Night has passed and a new day is beginning. For this third, and final, time in the Gospel of John that Jesus appeared to the disciples after being raised from the dead, we watch the story…
Gracious God, take our minds and think through them; take our hands and work through them; take our hearts and set them on fire. Amen. How many of you heard the Gospel today and thought to yourself, “Oh, it’s the doubting Thomas story?” How many of you heard the Gospel today and thought to yourself, “Oh, it’s Pentecost already?” Ah,…
Alleluia! Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia! There is a practice in the Orthodox tradition to tells jokes at Easter in honor of the joke that Jesus played on death in the resurrection. Don’t stop me if you’ve heard this one before. It happened in Sunday School. It’s always Sunday School, isn’t it? You see, Ms. Clara…
Alleluia! Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia! Fire and water, bread and wine: these are the primal elements of our faith, the means by which we encounter God. Tonight as we’ve gathered they have been wrapped in darkness, and now light – and above all love. Lent is the journey through the wilderness of the sin of…
Today everything is stripped bare. We gather on this Good Friday to contemplate the death of Jesus. As much as we may want to, we can’t make the story either stop before Jesus dies, or fast forward to the empty tomb. Today we must linger with the broken body of Jesus. The inevitability of the Good Friday story holds so much…
One of my favorite children’s books is The Easter Story by Brian Wildsmith. I love it for two reasons. First, it has the most amazing illustrations – the kind that set your heart to singing; and secondly, because it is a wonderful telling of the Easter story for children that in no way dumbs down the events from Palm Sunday all…
Guest preacher Kate Riley, Youth Missioner for the Diocese of Maryland. Diocese of Maryland Youth!
Gracious God, take our minds and think through them; take our hands and work through them; take our hearts and set them on fire. Amen. Parables don’t tell us what to do or how to behave, they tell us something of the nature of God. It’s important to remember this as we read again one of the most well-known…
Gracious God, take our minds and think through them; take our hands and work through them; take our hearts and set them on fire. Amen. My son Zachary was born during spring break of my second year of seminary. When he was 3 months old I had a crisis of faith. You see, he went in for his second…