This is My Beloved Son…
We’d known it for some time. Our beloved son is ill. More ill than we realized at first; more ill than he realizes himself yet. […]
Life
Christian Music is Changing
1. Phil Wickham What do you get when two band members from a popular 1960’s Christian hippie movement get married? Phil Wickham, that’s what! Good […]
Am I Just I?
What a year. My mother died. My church of 40 years closed. Oh Lord, why have you forsaken me? What a year. My mother died. […]
Seven Swans a’ Swimming
“The trumpeters are in!” said Linda. I stumbled out of bed and joined her gawking out of our front room window. In the early morning […]
Manufacturing Conspiracy
The Armageddon Factor: The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Canada By Marci McDonald Random House, 2010 Author Marci McDonald is afraid of conservative Christians and […]
The Satirical Jesus
Website: Jesus of the Week is a wonderful page that celebrates Jesus art with all its blemishes. Each week a new depiction of Jesus is […]
Worshipping with Fingertips
If good things come in small packages, then potentially great things come in large ones — three big boxes to be exact — like the […]
Trains and Boats and Planes
I have to confess; since my earliest years I have been powerfully driven by fear. When I was about three years old and living in […]
Twitterings
“Social media can’t provide what social change has always required,” argues Malcolm Gladwell in the Oct. 4 issue of the New Yorker in a fascinating […]
Real Life in Real Time
Book reviewed: From Pulp to Pulpit by Hugh Appel Essence Publishing This is the story of a minister’s life written with a clarity that brings […]
Wandering No More
This is the last chapter. I can’t promise a happy Hollywood ending but maybe there’s something better.
Fishers of Men
In the dozen years I have been a member of the Presbyterian Church in Canada my life has been touched and transformed by some remarkable people. Many of them have been other lay members whose friendship and inspiration have nursed life’s bruises and rekindled flagging spirits, but important in a different sense have been those called to the ministry of word and sacrament.
What’s the Story?
We don’t always get it right. Or, I suppose I should say, for every article published in the Record, there is always another perspective. At […]
The Power of Thanksgiving
“So where are you taking us?” Linda asked coyly. Halden and his fiancée, Laurie insisted that we keep the night of Sept. 12 free. “We […]
Pizza and pampers
Culture-ized Communion? Can communion elements be culture-ized or, by doing so, does the meal cease to be the Lord’s Supper? Can a Japanese church use […]
A Postmodern Adventure
I’ve often described myself as a postmodern being, without being quite sure what postmodernism is. It has, however, never led me into a slough of despond.
God Laughed, I Hope
As this series winds toward its conclusion, I find myself reflecting on the dozen-or-so years I’ve enjoyed in our church. It’s not surprising that the moments that linger are moments of laughter.
Habituated Like a Fox
“Did you see that?!” Linda exclaimed. Bud the Lab snore-snorted loudly, jumped up from his coma and woofed at about the same timed as I […]
Calvin is My Homeboy
Hip-Hop Church The House is an urban teen-oriented, non-denominational church in Chicago and is an extension of Lawndale Community Church. The House sees itself as […]