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Propio 22 A + Vida gozosa en Jesus / Joyful life in Jesus + 10.4.26

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  M. Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard ( Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20; Psalm 19; Philippians 3:4b-14; Matthew 21:33-46 ) Del Salmo: Sean gratos los dichos de mi boca y la meditación de mi corazón delante de ti, * oh Señor, Roca mía y Redentor mío. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, * O Lord, my strength and my redeemer. Amen. Good morning, everyone/ buenos días a todos y todas! Today’s gospel speaks to us of a vineyard, a powerful biblical symbolic image, with meaningful roots in the book of Isaiah. La lectura del evangelio del hoy nos habla de un viñedo, y tiene simbolismo en el libro de Isaías, a lo que seguramente refiere Jesús. Nosotros no tenemos que trabajar duro para imaginar un viñedo así, porque estamos rodeados de granjas y aun algunos viñedos en nuestra área. We don’t have to stretch our imaginations too far to imagine this scene, surrounded as we are by fields and even some vineyards. We see a co...
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Proper 21 A + Living Water + 9.27.26

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  M. Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard ( Exodus 17:1-7;   Psalm 78:1-4, 12-16; Philippians 2:1-13; Matthew 21:23-32 ) Some of you are familiar with the farm church that was formed around the Abundant Table farm, and which now continues in a different iteration. When I would join the farm church for worship at a local community garden, often with Ted, our music director, I loved a simple moment in which we passed a container of water and used it to bless ourselves, lifting up water as a holy source of life in our area of Southern California and the Central Coast. Local theologian Ched Myers calls all of us in his book Watershed Discipleship to connect with and claim a relationship with our local watershed. For those of us in the Oxnard plain, we are part of the Ventura River Watershed. As we spend time at local sources of water, we feel more connected to our local ecology and also to our forebears on this land, and the indigenous people who continue to reside here as ...
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Propio 21 A + Agua de Vida + 27 de septiembre de 2026

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  M. Campbell-Langdell All Saints, Oxnard (Éxodo 17:1-7; Salmo 78:1-4, 12-16; Filipenses 2:1-13; Mateo 21:23-32) Algunos de ustedes conocen la iglesia agrícola que surgió en torno a la granja *Abundant Table* y que ahora continúa bajo una nueva modalidad. Cuando participaba en el culto de esa iglesia en un huerto comunitario local —a menudo junto a Ted, nuestro director musical—, me encantaba un momento sencillo en el que pasábamos un recipiente con agua y lo usábamos para bendecirnos, elevando el agua como una fuente sagrada de vida en nuestra región del sur de California y la Costa Central. En su libro *Watershed Discipleship* (Discipulado de Cuenca), el teólogo local Ched Myers nos invita a todos a conectar y establecer una relación con nuestra cuenca hidrográfica local. Quienes habitamos la llanura de Oxnard formamos parte de la cuenca del río Ventura. Al pasar tiempo junto a las fuentes de agua locales, nos sentimos más conectados con nuestro entorno ecológico y con los ...
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Proper 20 A + What Kind of God do we Want? ACL+ (with MCL+) + 9.20.26

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  What Kind of God Do We Want? Exodus 16, Philippians 1, Matthew 20   St Paul’s Emmanuel, Santa Paula & All Santos, Oxnard The Rev. Alene Campbell-Langdell and MCL+   A few weeks ago, about 1000 Episcopalians and Lutherans went to the Dodger game.   As you can imagine as the game stretched into the 9 th inning with the Dodgers losing 2 to 1, there were a lot of comments about needing to pray harder.   Surely God must want the Dodgers to win with all these good Christians cheering them on!   And surely no one would be praying for the Cardinals to win!   Of course I’m joking, but it points to the strangeness of what theologians call monotheism—the belief in one God rather than many.   Throughout much of the world and much of human history, belief in God meant believing in your tribal god or your family’s god.   In fact, the earliest Christians were called atheists by the Romans because they didn’t believe in a panoply of gods e...
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Propio 20 A + Que Clase de Dios Queremos? + ACL (& MCL) + 9.20.26

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  ¿Qué Clase de Dios Queremos? Éxodo 16, Filipenses 1, San Mateo 20   All Santos, Oxnard Las Revdas Alene & Melissa Campbell-Langdell Hace un par de semanas, alrededor de 1000 episcopales y luteranos fueron al partido de los Dodgers. Como se imaginan, mientras que el partido extendió a la novena entrada y los Dodgers estaban perdiendo 2 a uno, había varios comentarios sobre la necesidad de ora mas fuertemente. Seguramente Dios quería que ganaran los Dodgers, ¿no? ¿Con los aplausos de todos estos cristianos? ¡Nadie quería que ganaran los Cardinales, seguramente! Por supuesto que estoy bromeando, pero revela lo raro de los que los teólogos nombran las fes monoteístas, en que creemos en un Dios en vez de varios dioses. Tras la mayoría del mundo y mucha de la historia, creer en Dios significaba la fe un el dios de su tribu o de su familia. De hecho, los Romanos nombraron “ateos” a los primeros cristianos porque no creían en una panoplia de dioses, cada uno en cont...
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Proper/Propio18A +What Time is It? + 9.6.26

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  M. Campbell-Langdell All Santos, Oxnard Proper/Propio18A +9.6.26 ( Exodus 12:1-14; Psalm 149; Romans 13:8-14; Matthew 18:15-20 ) The readings today ask us, what time is it? En que momento estamos? We might think about this literally. We’re in this weird time where? It is the first official sort of end of summer and the harbinger of fall on Labor Day weekend. Literalmente estamos en un tiempo de cambio entre el verano y los días largos y a veces más tranquilos y el otoño y estar regresando a reuniones, productividad y más. At the same time, we've just passed through some very hot days. And it's also pumpkin season in the in one coffee shop. Wow, hemos pasado por unos días calientes. Y a la vez es el tiempo de la calabaza en las tiendas de café. Es el empiezo de spooky season para algunos. On a more serious note, we are sobered by what we witness in the world. Things like the flooding in Nepal. We pray for continued recovery efforts and for all the helpers. Estamo...
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Proper 17 C + When Things Go Terribly Wrong (ACL) + 8.30.26

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  When Things Go Terribly Wrong Exodus 3, Psalm 26, Romans 12, Matthew 16   All Saints Oxnard The Rev. Alene Campbell-Langdell with the Rev. MCL+   What happens when things go horribly, terribly wrong?   As I mentioned last week, one of the stops on our trip was at the Cathedral of Kildare, Ireland.   This is the ancestral church of St Brigid.   She and the monks and nuns in her abbey were known as keepers of the sacred flame.   Long before St Brigid arrived that particular site was seen as holy, and in an era before matches or automatic lighters, keeping a flame alive for neighbors to bring coals to their own homes was a sacred duty.   St Brigid dedicated the flame to Christ and kept it going.   Through the centuries, despite the church itself being destroyed multiple times, the community kept the flame alive until King Henry VIII ordered it extinguished in the 16 th century.   What happens when things go horribly, terribly...
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