“I Like Your Scarf” (Madeleine Keesmaat-Walsh) “I like your scarf” I say to each and every person I pass wearing the white and black pattern Around their neck Their hair Their bag
Steve Bell’s “The Glad Surprise” lives up to its name. Bell reaches out and grabs the heart, the imagination, the despair, the hope, the longing, the pathos and the eros of the soul … and that is all in the first song!
Love, Grief and Mountains: A Season of Creation Sermon Sometimes God bypasses humanity and speaks directly to creation.
The Gift and Practice of Faith Originally published in the October 2024 issue of the Highway I don’t know when you’ll be reading this.
Philanthropic Bribery and Corruption in High Places Forgive me if I am just a tad cynical when a publisher comes to the defence of his largest single source of advertizing revenue.
Wisdom for our Time: A review of Bruce Cockburn’s O Sun O Moon Wisdom doesn't always come with age. But it does with Bruce Cockburn.
Pacing the Cage with J. Richard Middleton Celebrating Richard Middleton's retirement. Pacing the cage with resonance and dissonance
No Day for Easy Answers A Eulogy for a Beloved Friend Written and Delivered by Simon Peter It is finished.
From Displacement to Domicide: A Lenten Theme? In a culture of domicide, what happens if we inhabit the Scriptures, finding a path home in the story they tell, that moves from homemaking to domicide to homecoming?
Imagine a World image credit: Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land A sermon preached at St.
Byron Borger on Beyond Homelessness, 15th anniversary edition I can’t say enough about this new edition, it’s big picture cultural criticism and it’s imaginative reforms for how we think about these matters.
Launching Beyond Homelessness, 15th Anniversary Edition Herein is energizing vision aplenty, starting wth the fundamental idea that creating homes, not merely housing, is what we must aim for.
“Every Grain of Sand” A meditation on a long death The artist bears witness to a dying voice, a voice losing its resonance, a voice about to be rendered silent. Has that been your voice?
What would Noah Do … and repenting of Heaven In the face of climate emergency we need to ask, "What would Noah do?" And we need to repent of heaven.
Invasions, Judgement and the Prayer of a Seven Year Old No! That's not how we pray tonight! A seven year old prays for mercy, judgement and blessing.