Resurrection Among the Ruins: Pt. 2. Mary’s Story Mary came to the tomb, under the ruins of her faith, her hope, her dreams. And resurrection happened among those ruins.
Resurrection Among the Ruins: Pt 1. Isaiah’s Vision Can there be resurrection among the ruins? Might hope be born in the face of such despair?
Lovers in this Dangerous Time Originally Preached at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church in Summerland, BC. You know, I can’t think of a better pairing than a wedding and that song we just heard: Steve Bell’s version of Bruce Cockburn’s Lovers in a Dangerous Time.
Imagine a World image credit: Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land A sermon preached at St.
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.
On our Way … to New Beginnings For most of us, Wine Before Breakfast was a coming home. But this was always “a sort of homecoming,” a homecoming on the way, never a settled and comfortable spirituality.
Debunking Rapture, Discerning the Times To be “taken” is a metaphor of judgement. And to “remain” is a metaphor of salvation.
Persis Hears Colossians While we are all fighting against misogyny, child abuse and economic exploitation, how do we hear a text in which wives, children and slaves are all called to obedience?
All Things in Christ All of creation now begins to bend back into harmony with God and the vision of a deep and everlasting and generous and fruitful peace becomes something that you can just start to catch a glimpse of.
Hope in my Wallet But hope is not born of the erasure of the past. Hope requires the redemption of the past, and the reclaiming of its promise.
Jeremiah’s Call and Desperate Times Without prophetic critique, hope before breakfast will be little more than cheap optimism at best, and a pious cover-up at worst.