“Make a way” … for sorrow and hope This album will catch your tears even as it catches your breath. It will give voice to your lament, hold you in its beauty, and gently, ever so gently, make a way in and through the sorrow.
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.
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
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?
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.
A Samaritan Woman Meets Jesus and Leonard What happens if we hear Leonard Cohen singing at that well with the Samaritan woman and Jesus?
When the Church becomes the Well It's time for the church to become the well, the meeting place, of healing and restoration.
Lent and the”H” word Be careful what you say this Lent. The "H" word can get you into a heck of a lot of trouble.
“For the Soul without a King” – Leonard Cohen and the Reign of Christ St. Paul and Leonard Cohen are both poets of praise. They both bear witness to the Holy One. And they both have to deal with Jesus.