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Room for Doubt

There was simply no room for doubt amongst the true believers, which clearly put me on the outs.

by Andrew Stephens-Rennie

Promise for the Middle Class

Jesus didn’t give a shit about power. Or rather. Jesus didn’t give a shit about power in the way most of us would like to believe.

by Andrew Stephens-Rennie

How Reconciliation Begins

As Jesus invites us into his community of reconciliation, he offers a wide welcome to one and all, calling us to offer the same welcome that we received.

by Andrew Stephens-Rennie

There’s More Healing to Be Done

Jesus stops, disrupting the flow of blood from the one whose hemorrhages had not ceased to flow for 12 long years. Twelve years of suffering healed in an instant. And yet, there’s more healing to be done.

by Andrew Stephens-Rennie

Dry Bones, the Spirit and Resurrection

There can be no resurrection without a new creation. There can be no new creation without bodies. And there can be no bodies without soil.

by Brian Walsh

Bikes, Jesus and the Legal System

It was a week and a half ago that I was (nearly) bike-jacked. And every time I talk about this, someone inevitably asks: "Is that a thing?"

by Andrew Stephens-Rennie

Repenting of Heaven

Reflections on J. Richard Middleton’s A New Heaven and a New Earth (Baker Academic, 2014) Presented at the Canadian Evangelical Theological Association, May 31 in Ottawa “This changes everything.”

by Brian Walsh

The Spirit, ‘Spontaneity’ and Justice

I guess I'm just tired of the Holy Spirit being used as a psycho-spiritual drug dealer justifying spiritual narcissism.

by Brian Walsh

Iggy’s Gift

It was one of his last works of art. It was a gift to us and it captured it all.

by Brian Walsh

Being Church

What if it's up to more than our marketing campaigns, facebook ad buys, and edgy new ways of being church? What if it's been up to the Spirit all along?

by Andrew Stephens-Rennie

The Centurion’s Tale

And if he was God’s son, the King of the Jews, then what was he doing on that cross? But it is on the cross that I saw who he was. It is on the cross that this king is enthroned. And that doesn’t make any sense at all. Or does it?

by Brian Walsh

Maundy Thursday: Betrayal and Denial

The Last Supper, this revolutionary re-interpretation of the Passover, this Eucharist, has always been framed by betrayal and denial. And it still is.

by Brian Walsh

On Staying and not Running: A Pastoral Letter for Holy Week 2015

Dare we not run, but stay? Dare we stay and watch, stay and bear witness? Dare we face this week with open hands and open hearts?

by Brian Walsh

Look Death in the Eye

It’s not easy to look death in the eye, no matter what we’re promised on the other side.

by Andrew Stephens-Rennie

Stubborn

When Jesus remixes Isaiah's song of the vineyard, what Bartimeaus sees is stubbornness meet stubbornness.

by Nate Wall

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