Away from the Centre – Walking the Labyrinth
Last week I spent four days at the Crieff Hills Conference Centre, near Guelph, Ontario. I was there for the Guidance Conference of The Presbyterian […]
Blogs
Discernment: it’s for everybody!
This week, I have been participating as a counsellor at a discernment event for potential ministry candidates within my denomination. It truly is a privilege […]
Book Review : “Wise Church: Exploring Faith and Worship with Christians Around the World”
Summary: Finding resources is a constant challenge. One of the features of this blog will be to review books on worship that the author has found […]
Parenting in the Valley
This is the first in a series reflecting on life as we’ve journeyed with my wife’s mom during her battle with cancer.Hope fuels Christian living, […]
What is Worship?
Summary: We talk a lot about worship, practice it regularly, but do we really know what it is? Do our congregations? Here are some thoughts […]
What If You Only Had One Day Left?
Our world seems obsessed with its own demise. Hollywood movies, strange cults in the desert and the Left Behind series. Scientists in Chicago even made a ‘Doomsday […]
We need to notice.
Last week I was horrified as I read about the collapse of a garment factory in Bangladesh. As I read of the tragedy and saw […]
Table talk
The Gospel of John is filled with amazing depictions of the intimacy between God the Father and Christ. It’s a textbook in how intimacy works and how close humanity and divinity can be. And then here, in the midst of the Farewell discourse, we find promise that this modelling doesn’t finish with the earthly life of Jesus. The Spirit – the Advocate – will be with the people to teach them and remind them.
New Titles and Roles
It has come as a bit of a revelation but along with all the other titles I have owned…daughter, sister, sweetheart, fiancée, wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother I have another one…”single mom.”
Roots matter.
I spent the afternoon with my hands in the dirt. It was marvellous. I’m preparing my garden for growth. Getting the soil just right so […]
Banality of Banalities (Urban Art #001)
Among the things that make for a humanized and humanizing neighbourhood, urban art may not be at the top of the list, but it is […]
Scary or fascinating?
There’s been a rather lively discussion about worship happening recently over on the PCC Facebook page . I’m not going to rehash it all here; […]
Make It Worth Watching
In the past while, there has been a Lexus commercial on television that has intrigued me – not because I’m in a position to be […]
Sacred … in the flesh
I think I met Jesus again. I had just sat down across from one of our youth in my usual meeting space (a.k.a. Tim Horton’s) […]
A dangerous thing.
As I’ve told you, it looks like my time of regular supply is coming to an end and I was doing well with this information […]
Every Once In A While You Have to Say Your ‘I am’ Speech
Alexander Hamilton said that if you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. And over the past few weeks it’s been a tough world […]
The Art of Listening
Have you ever noticed that words come easy, but listening not-so-much? Anyone in a relationship knows this well. Listening is an art; something we need […]
Lynda Franklin’s Date Loaf
Cooke’s Presbyterian Church, in Toronto, was known as “the Irish” church. So when Lynda Hughes and her brother came along, they were baptized in Cooke’s […]
Nature and Grace – A Response to Richard Beck
Rachel Held Evans is hosting a discussion of human sexuality on her blog, and has invited Richard Beck to lead the conversation. Yesterday he posted […]
All Good Gifts
Earth Day is today. Earth Day dates back to 1970. It started in the United States and became the launch pad for the environmental movement. […]