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Don’t Make God Small
On my way back home from a recent business trip I picked up an airport novel for the long flight. I’ve long been a fan […]
On my way back home from a recent business trip I picked up an airport novel for the long flight. I’ve long been a fan […]
On April 11, 2009, a frumpy, middle-aged woman from a little village in Scotland stood on the stage of Britain’s Got Talent and announced that […]
These carols speak to our time in fresh ways, and bring needed balance whenever we fear nostalgia and greeting-card sentiments rule our Yule.
When all the restructuring is done and the reports are in, it still comes back to loving, worshipping and enjoying God. That still involves the simple and subversive act of singing together.
Christianity has been wrestling with the “arts question” for some time. It is already difficult to decide how to integrate artistic expressions into church life, […]
For the last three years, I’ve been on Assembly Council. I’ve had the opportunity to talk with people from across the country, and time and […]
I have just returned from North Carolina where I officiated at my nephew, Russell’s wedding to a beautiful young woman named Jeni. It was a […]
Summer and fall of 2009 were filled with anxiety for the Johnston family. Son Ian (in Halifax) was “invaded” by a parasite and it took […]
November 28, 2010 reading: Advent 1: Isaiah 2:1-5; Romans 13:11-14; Matthew 24:36-44 What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin […]
Today I suggest a few more psalm paraphrases that merit attention.
More how-to comments on some contemporary and global songs in the Presbyterian Book of Praise. Listening to songs and artists of the same genre is a key ingredient in presenting the music on its own terms.
In our particular life in the world — from the slow breakdown of a relationship, to years of physical abuse, from sudden accidents which devastate […]
Do you remember Joe “I am Canadian!!!”? Joe was the exuberant character in the Molson beer ad, untypically Canadian in his extroverted pride in our […]
It was 3:30 Sunday afternoon and I felt a tap on my shoulder. It was my wife, Shirley. “Do you feel well enough to go […]
This year celebrates the 450th anniversary of the establishing of our ecclesiastical mother as the national Church of Scotland. We can’t help but think of […]
October 10, 2010 reading: Thanksgiving / Pentecost 20 Luke 17:11-192 This year the lectionary bumps right into Canadian Thanksgiving. We often choose this gospel when […]
How do you get the right style when leading worship songs rooted in popular and dance music? It comes down to rhythm. Here are some practical helps, with links to online videos.
I wonder if we suffer, not from a lack of faith, but from a poverty of imagination. Or do we accept what is dysfunctional because of our fierce loyalty to the church? Here are some more hymns to balance and shape us anew.
I had been joyfully co-leading youth ministry in Kitchener, Ont., with my wife, when the unexpected happened. I began to feel that God was leading […]
September 5, 2010 reading: 15th Sunday after Pentecost Luke 14:25-332 One of the books I refer to when I’m teaching an introductory course in pastoral […]