The Corinthian Complex
In June, two little balls of dark brown fluff are soon cruising the water with mom and dad. The devotion shown by both male and female loons for their babies seems to be incredible.
Life
Jesus is Everywhere
Integrity Mark Driscoll is the preaching pastor of Mars Hill Church. It’s a giant Seattle congregation. Driscoll is also founder of the church – planting […]
Deconstructing Work
Ten years later the stacks on my desk are replaced with folders in my computer. I no longer have a visual marker for my work. It’s still the same work, still the same amount of work, but I can’t visualize it in the same way.
Eyes Wide Open
We received all sorts of backhanded compliments from friends as we packed up for Malawi in late 2010.
Spring Humour
Two jokes—one with truth in it and one that’s true.
Accommodating Reasonably
An argument could be made that the battle for religious freedoms has been a defining force in Canada’s story.
Invisible Minorities
Living in Taiwan our boys experienced life as a “visible minority,” but when they moved back to Canada they were an “invisible minority.” On the outside they looked like average Canadians, but culturally they were a Taiwanese-Canadian blend.
Bombed by the Canadians
It was one of those delightful, peacefilled, warm spring days. Linda and I had risen, as is our custom, to coffee and bran in bed, relishing the morning sunshine.
Kids, Camp and Charity
Videos Kid Snippets is a series from the YouTube channel, Bored Shorts TV. It was created by brothers Brett, David, John and Randy Roberts. And […]
Voices of the Faithful
I don’t imagine Canadians are clamouring to hear the views of the Presbyterian Church in Canada any more than Scots want advice on how to vote from the Church of Scotland.
Motivating Change
“It’s not so much that people don’t mind change, they just want to keep on doing what they’re doing as well. And by the time they’re finished doing what they’ve been doing, they’re out of time, money and energy to do anything new.”
Learning to Trust God
Henry Wildeboer, a pastor with the Christian Reformed Church, writes out of the crucible of 50 years of ministry experience and describes the many challenges and opportunities he faced in leading congregations to fulfil the great commission.
A Mysterious Disappearance
Squirrely had made his presence known by chasing the birds, leading Addy the Labrador on a merry chase among the spruce trees, or sitting on one of our bird feeders shucking sunflower seeds like some kind of maniacal machine. And then he was gone. We couldn’t figure it out.
It Takes All Kinds
Magazine Prodigal magazine was created in 2005 by Jason Wenell for “men of integrity.” It did well and in 2012 it was taken over and […]
A Church of Now
Like so many others my church is no longer a neighbourhood church, yet not quite something else either. It is locked in its physical location in search of an identity.
The Good with the Bad
We were first appointed to Malawi in 1980. Our “first born,” as Malawians would say, was just a year old.
It Takes a Village
Those first months learning to adapt to life with children and learning how to parent within a Malawian context were filled with a mixture of excitement, uncertainty, terror and joy.
Living into the Story
“Mama,” my nephew Zachary said, his six-year-old brow furrowed, “I think I would have looked back, too.”
Alive and Green
We started a garden with the minister’s blessings and two enthusiastic young women undaunted by criticism and jokes.
Fallen or Graced
Why does a discussion of homosexuality tend inevitably to shift into a discussion of holiness versus sin, or wholeness versus brokenness?