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“The Front Lines” (May 16, 2015; The Ordination of Peter Nathaniel Johnston to the Sacred Order of Deacons–The Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Lafayette, Louisiana)
“For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.”—II Corinthians 4.5[1] To the Right Reverend Jacob Owensby, Reverend Father in God, Bishop of the Church in Western Louisiana; the Reverend Joseph Daly, Rector of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, and the Reverend Dr. Continue reading
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“Dr. Lattimore’s Epiphany” (January 4, 2015: The Second Sunday after Christmas Day–Year B; The Episcopal Church of the Ascension, Lafayette, Louisiana)
“Where is he who is born King of the Jews?”–Matthew 2.2[1] In the Name of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Amen. On one of the bookshelves in my school office are translations of the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, the New Testament Epistles, and the Revelation to John Continue reading
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“The Lambda Chi Slapdown of 2007” (November 5, 2014: Votive Eucharist for All Baptized Christians–Ascension Episcopal High School, Youngsville, Louisiana)
“…Whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all.”—Mark 10.43-44[i] In the Name of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Amen! A few weeks back, while preaching in chapel, some of you may remember a Continue reading
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“Foot Washing–I Now Understand It” (April 17, 2014: Maundy Thursday–Canterbury Episcopal Chapel, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama)
“…Do you know what I have done to you?”—John 13.12[1] In the Name of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen! Throughout my now 12 years as an Episcopalian, I have been in parishes that either did or did not do foot washing as part of their Maundy Thursday liturgy. Foot washing was never really Continue reading
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“Baptism–Is It Really Necessary?” (January 12, 2014: The First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Baptism of Our Lord; Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Birmingham, Alabama)
“…Let it be so now; for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.”—Matthew 3.15[1] In the Name of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen! For quite some time, there has been a debate within Anglican and other Protestant Christian Churches concerning the topic of “Communion without Baptism”—a practice that allows individuals Continue reading
About BRANDT
The Rev. Brandt Montgomery is the Chaplain of Saint James School in Hagerstown, Maryland, having previously served at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Lafayette, Louisiana as Chaplain of Ascension Episcopal School from 2014-2017, then as Associate Rector and All-School Chaplain from 2017-2019. From 2012-2014, Fr. Montgomery was the Curate at Canterbury Episcopal Chapel and Student Center at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, his first parochial appointment following his ordination by the Bishop of Alabama.
Fr. Montgomery received a Bachelor of Arts in Music, specializing in Trumpet Performance, from the University of Montevallo in Montevallo, Alabama in 2007. He received the Master of Divinity (cum laude) in 2012 from The General Theological Seminary in New York City, for which he wrote the thesis “Time’s Prisoner: The Right Reverend Charles Colcock Jones Carpenter and the Civil Rights Movement in the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama.” In 2021, Fr. Montgomery received the Doctor of Ministry degree from the School of Theology at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, his thesis titled “The Development of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Saint James School of Maryland.”
Fr. Montgomery’s scholarly interests lie in the areas of American religious history, Episcopal Church history, the Oxford Movement and Anglo-Catholicism, the Civil Rights Movement, and practical theology.
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