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.
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?
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.
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?"
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?
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.
The First Word On the banks of the river, I had this sense that a new plotline was emerging. Jesus of Nazareth would be the first word in the story of what might be.
Adnan Syed and the Parable of the Talents A reflection on Matthew 25:14-30 originally preached at St. Brigids Vancouver, an emerging Christian community rooted in the Anglican tradition.
Miscarriage There is no poetry in miscarriage, no poetry in death. Its shock, surprise and torment cannot be made beautiful. It is ache, absence and loss beyond words.
Dogged Faith Great is the faith of the woman who dares to talk back; the one who dares to question; the one who dares lean in.