Commissioning by Andrew Stephens-Rennie In a strange twist of fate, Levi’s provides a way better commissioning to go out and actively love and seek to renew the world, than I’ve heard in a church in a long time.
Slick by Andrew Stephens-Rennie This oil slick, it’s making me sick. Six weeks of seepage on the seabed and where are we at?
Practicing Resurrection 2010 This August marks the return of Practicing Resurrection, an annual conference held at Brian and Sylvia’s Russet House Farm in Cameron, Ontario.
Operation 504 Rebuild by Andrew Stephens-Rennie I got off the phone yesterday with Tommy, and my heart sunk.
Between Confidence and Fear by Brian Walsh Folk who visit this site know that much of what we write about here arises out of a shared worship experience called “Wine Before Breakfast.”
Gethsemane by Ann Andree A sermon based on Mark 14:32-52 My dear brothers and sisters, in reading this passage, we have just entered into a sacred space and joined Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane.
A Pastoral Letter for Holy Week 2010 Every year Brian writes a pastoral letter to the Wine Before Breakfast community at the University of Toronto.
Inclusive, Particular and Being Down and Out in Austin. by Brian Walsh On March 17 I had the incredible honour of speaking along with my co-author, Steven Bouma-Prediger at the “National Symposium on Homelessness” in Austin, Texas.
Homemaking on the Road: Romans 15 and the Bigger Picture by Brian Walsh It has been about home from the beginning.
The Holy Dove and a Crown of Thorns I was teaching for the Creation Care Studies Program in Belize some years ago.
Gratitude: Some Thoughts for Yonge Street Mission by Brian Walsh In a culture of perpetual dissatisfaction, …a culture where you are what you have made yourself, …a culture of ceaseless craving ……for new experiences, ……for consumer goods, ……for power, ……for sex, ……for wealth, ……for status, …a culture of hyperactive frenzy and anxiety, …a culture of paralysis and numbness, ……in this culture, ……gratitude can set us free.
Whole Bodies, Transformed Minds by Brian Walsh [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgZYlTpRoRc] Dr. King once said that Christians are too often like thermometers, registering and reflecting the temperature all around them, when in fact we are called to thermostats, influencing and changing the spiritual, moral, and cultural atmosphere of the society in which we live.
Mining Justice Campaign by Andrew Stephens-Rennie This morning I had the opportunity to sit down with Stefan Cherry, a policy analyst with the Mennonite Central Committee, and a church planter in the Vanier neighbourhood of Ottawa.
Obama as Empire-Builder by Andrew Stephens-Rennie As I was looking through my feed reader, I noticed an interesting post by Fr.
The Mysterious Death of Marcelo Rivera by Andrew Stephens-Rennie Our friend Jamie Moffett, director of the film “The Ordinary Radicals” that followed Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw on their Jesus for President Book Tour recently posted this clip on his blog.