Canada’s Election: When Fear is Stronger than Facts and Figures This election campaign has me missing Jack Layton's spirit and presence on the trail. While the Conservatives deal in negative emotions and attacks, the other parties respond with Facts and Figures. The one controlling the emotional battle of this election is the one dealing in fear.
Living in the Tragic Gap Living in in the Spirit means holding the tension of the tragic gap, living in the tension of hope and reality, and allowing that tension to break our hearts open, so that the heartbreak of God, becomes our heartbreak as well.
A Road to Peace For my own part, in the reality of my day to day life, I am often confounded by what it might actually mean that Jesus is the Prince of Peace. What do these prophetic poetics mean for us disciples walking the road with Jesus as his ministry unfolds?
Truth, Elections and the Spirit [A meditation on John 15.26-16.15 for Wine Before Beer, August 25, 2015] In one of his most memorable quotes, philosopher Richard Rorty once said, “Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.”
Jesus is an Asshole The other day I sat down with a profoundly faithful Christian friend who hates Jesus. Why? He's got this nasty habit of coming across as a complete asshole.
Endless Struggle What if the purpose of the struggle is not so much to win or lose, but to come away better understanding the one with whom you struggle?
Room for Doubt There was simply no room for doubt amongst the true believers, which clearly put me on the outs.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?"
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.”
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.