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The other day, while frosting an old-fashioned carrot cake, I got to thinking about cake-cake, my term for no-nonsense Canadian cakes, like those baked by […]
The other day, while frosting an old-fashioned carrot cake, I got to thinking about cake-cake, my term for no-nonsense Canadian cakes, like those baked by […]
How often do we hear that you can’t do something just by talking about it? For the most part, that is true. However, yesterday […]
Plum and I went to London last week. Just the two of us. We went midweek and without agenda – just a little get-away to […]
Green cardboard palm leaves, nearly as big as their standard bearers, wave in a double row up the aisle of the church. “Hosanna, Hosanna” chirps […]
The year was 1975. I had just decided to leave my ‘normal’ job as a university teacher in New Zealand and to use my skills […]
Among the masters of marketing in the Christian world are Bible publishers. Name your favourite Bible teacher, theological preference, addiction, colour, binding material, or translation, […]
I’m guessing there’s someone in your life right now who needs you. The ‘how’ or ‘what’ of that need might be obvious—or it might be […]
Back in November, our session asked Jon and I to take some time for ‘recalibration’ within our ministry. Given that some of our session are […]
Blessed are the broken. That’s the beatitudes in a nutshell but, of course, none of the blessings stop there. Blessed are the broken because things […]
My granddaughter writes me the following: Little Toby walks into the living room with a glass of milk. Mom:…Where did you get that? Toby:…I went […]
Have you heard about Blue Monday? Someone told me it’s supposed to be the most depressing day of the year and falls on the Monday […]
Sometimes, I’m amazed at how shallow news reporting has become. Yesterday, there were two stories that made top headlines on radio and television news where […]
The Presbytery of Montreal has adopted a response to Bill 60 – the Quebec Charter of Values. A PDF of the document can be found […]
At first, this was supposed to be funny—with things like how I have no willpower against ketchup chips or how my wife often discovers me […]
First, I should say that when I asked the kids if I could write about this, there was a long pause. I thought it best […]
I awoke this morning to hear someone on the radio say that his mother “had Jesus” and he “had Led Zeppelin.” Needless to say I […]
Lately, my wife has busied her evenings with scrapbooking. She’s not one of those scrapbookers – you know who you are! – who work meticulously […]
Wrestling with my son just helped me teach him the Bible. We were doing our usual pre-dinner devotional routine. Tonight, it was the Spark story […]
When Jane Tilley joined First Presbyterian Church, in Collingwood, she knew she had come full circle in her religious journey. From birth Jane attended Queen […]