A Question of Legacy: The Great Junk Transfer I’ve been wrestling with this next post for a few weeks now.
A Question of Legacy The question posed by the Diocese of Kootenay's Structures Working Group is ultimately a question of legacy.
Ash Wednesday, Psalm 51, and #ACCToo On Ash Wednesday—a mere week ago, a group of over 200 signatories sent a letter to high ranking officials of the Anglican Church of Canada, including the Primate and Council of General Synod (CoGS).
The Trouble with the Third Slave A reflection on Matthew 25:14-31 for St. Andrew’s Anglican Church in Trail, BC.
Love’s Percussive Proclamation I saw the Lord spitting on the altar, spray can in hand, scrawling verse after verse of invective poetry at a people, a nation, of ill-begotten gains...
The Lent of Our Lives I joked at the beginning of the pandemic, which was during the season of Lent, that this time was “the Lent of our lives.” A time to lament, to sit with death. We sense that new life will come, but not how or what it will look like. I didn’t know then how true it would be.
Jesus and the Theological Priority of the Marginalized When we read the gospels, the issue isn’t “Christ and Care for the Marginalized,” so much as “Jesus and the Theological Priority of the Marginalized.”
Episcopal Authority and the Mission of the Church Why is it that the main issue around which there is talk about serious disunity is sex? And specifically someone else's sexuality?
“The Fruit of Faithfulness” a response to “Fruits Worthy of Repentance” Every single year I have a few students who are barely hanging on to their Christian faith. And the problem is the church.
From Jerusalem to Vancouver: The Pharisees Strike Back That Bishop Royal’s argument resonates so well with the conservative and pharisaic voices at the Jerusalem Council should give us pause.
Dismantling the Doctrine of Discovery How might we come together to dismantle the ongoing effects of the Doctrine of Discovery in the church and in the world?
Resurrecting Religion: A Review Like James before him, Greg Paul wants to resurrect religion, give it a new body, allow it to be what it is called to be, coming to life again, with all of its scars open to view.
By the Rivers of our Fundamentalist Captivity By the rivers of our fundamentalist captivity we sat down and wept, and wept. And when we could weep no more, tears dried in the sun, we leapt. Preaching the poetry of protest, snarling songs of salvation.
What is Love? Rehearing 1 Corinthians 13 Love tends to no balance sheets of good and bad behaviour. Love holds on to what needs to be held; lets go of what needs to released.
Evangelicalism as the Gates of Hell? What if the church is the Gates of Hell? What if the church in the United States is no longer raiding the gates of hell, but have easily walked in? What if the church in the United States is now so apostate, that the Gates of Hell have indeed prevailed against the church?