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John Henson

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Heeler-Aussie Wrangler, Tree Farmer, Oxford Comma Advocate, Citizen Potawatomi, Episcopal Priest, Vicar at St. Francis Episcopal CFTH, Missioner for Racial Reconciliation, and Chaplain for Volunteers of America NorthLA in Shreveport, Louisiana.

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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 18/09/2026
Reflections on this Sunday’s texts: bit.ly/4ylE2M5 ⚓
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Lectionary Reflections for Sunday, Sept. 20, 2026
Looking ahead to this Sunday’s text
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 22/08/2026
@johnhenson.bsky.social Reflections for tomorrow's lectionary texts bit.ly/4gsOLMI ⚓
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Lectionary Reflections for Sunday, August 23,2026
A look at the scripture in the Revised Common Lectionary for this Sunday
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 14/08/2026
Remembering Jonathan Daniels today. ⚓ bit.ly/45wLDKP
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Remembering Jonathan Myrick Daniels Today
Feast day for a civil rights activist, martyr and saint
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 06/08/2026
Today’s Feast Day bit.ly/4c6RpGB ⚓
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The Feast Day of Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ
Today, August 6, 2026
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 05/08/2026
bit.ly/4fXNvkx Lectionary reflections for this Sunday ⚓
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Lectionary Reflections for Sunday, August 9, 2026, Track 2
Looking ahead to this Sunday's lessons
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 24/07/2026
About the lectionary for this Sunday bit.ly/4gVgp71 ⚓
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Lectionary Reflections for Sunday, July 26, 2026
Looking ahead to this Sunday's lessons
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 15/07/2026
bit.ly/4fDSbwU Lectionary Reflections for this Sunday ⚓
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Lectionary Reflections for Sunday, January 19, 2026
Looking ahead to this Sunday's lessons
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 08/07/2026
My reflections on this Sunday's texts: ⚓
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 07/07/2026
My sermon from Sunday. ⚓ bit.ly/4p7RJdv
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"For Those with Burdens"
Responding when Jesus says, "Come to me . . ."
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 03/07/2026
open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo... This is late getting out but here it is: ⚓
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Reflections on the Lectionary for Sunday, July 5
Proper 9A, Track 2
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 30/06/2026
My sermon from Sunday ⚓ tinyurl.com/2y3rqnm5
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"Fireworks Aren't Necessary"
When a cup of cold water is enough
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 29/06/2026
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Saint Peter and Saint Paul
And some pictures I took of a prison they were in
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 19/06/2026
Some actions to do on this #Juneteenth ⚓ www.episcopalchurch.org/ogr/this-jun...
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This Juneteenth, Advocate for Racial Justice
Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and announced that more than 250,000 enslaved Black people in Texas were free, more than two years after the Emanc...
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 17/06/2026
My thoughts about this Sunday’s lessons. ⚓
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Thinking ahead to the Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Reflections on the Revised Common Lectionary for Sunday, June 21, 2026, Track 2
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 15/06/2026
Evelyn Underhill bit.ly/43BBagc ⚓
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Evelyn Underhill
Lesser feasts and fasts
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 12/06/2026
To serve the most vulnerable bit.ly/4vM8InV ⚓
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Why We Have a Visions of Hope team
A story about our church's work with Volunteers of America's Behavioral Health clients
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 07/06/2026
Good Sunday in Denver substack.com/@fatherjohnh... ⚓
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Fr. John Henson (@fatherjohnhenson)
I’m in Denver this weekend for the Volunteers of America National Convention. I went to St. John’s Cathedral here this morning and it was so good to be there for the Holy Eucharist and to hear @thecor...
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 04/06/2026
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Fr. John Henson (@fatherjohnhenson)
There is hope for the bearded: “The twelfth-century monk who wrote An Apology for Beards argued that matted, greasy hair signals ‘interior cleanness’ and ‘divine virtue.’”
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 28/05/2026
About Trinity Sunday ⚓ open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
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For Trinity Sunday
My reflections on the lectionary texts for this Sunday
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 23/05/2026
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He breathed on them
First Pentecost
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 20/05/2026
How are you prepping? #tec fatherjohnhenson.substack.com/p/preparing-...
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Preparing for Pentecost
Thoughts, reflections on this Sunday's lessons
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 13/05/2026
I just wrote my first note on Substack substack.com/profile/7150...
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Fr. John Henson (@fatherjohnhenson)
I was at a men’s church event last night and, after we enjoyed a great meal, we started talking about what’s going on now in our country, especially here in Louisiana with voting rights. One Black man...
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 08/05/2026
Dame Julian of Norwich, c.1417 open.substack.com/pub/fatherjo...
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Dame Julian of Norwich, c.1417
Patron Saint of the Anxious
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Nic Mather @nicmather.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
There was a lot of TEC pushback about holding this service and "bending the knee"...this was not bending the knee. And this is a national journalist/author sharing this on his feed, not an Episcopalian, so it is getting reach. ⚓
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Padre Santiago Rodriguez @thepilgrimpadre.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Letter from Episcopal Church leaders on Trump administration immigration executive orders. ⚓ www.episcopalchurch.org/publicaffair...
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Jake Owensby @jakeowensby.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
How Old Are You In Your Head? From the Archive (paywall removed and slightly updated): ⚓
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How Old Are You in Your Head?
Thinking about what makes us lovable.
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 03/12/2024
My bishop’s @jakeowensby.bsky.social new book just arrived. Looking forward to digging into it. #episcopal #books
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 24/02/2024
Beautiful day for tongue wagging. #heeleraussiemix
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 16/02/2024
Great words from Bishop Jake Owensby as #Lent begins: “When Jesus calls us to repent, he’s telling us that another kind of life is already available. A life animated by love.”
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A Change of Focus
What is your life-defining focus?
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 15/02/2024
“No act of virtue can be great if it is not followed by advantage for others. So, no matter how much time you spend fasting, no matter how much you sleep on a hard floor and eat ashes and sigh continually, if you do no good to others, you do nothing great.” --John Chrysostom #Lent
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 14/02/2024
Three #ashwednesday services today and a very good day for extra wipes. #lent
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 14/02/2024
Everyone shows up and out on Fat Tuesday. #fattuesday #MardiGras #Shrovetuesday
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Fr. David @frdavid.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
"Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage."- Bl. Absalom Jones who we remember today ⚓
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John Henson @fatherjohnhenson.substack.com · 12/02/2024
My contribution from my backyard to #SuperbOwlSunday
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