A Question of Legacy: The Great Junk Transfer I’ve been wrestling with this next post for a few weeks now.
A Prayer, A Dream, A Sacred Space This has been a place of profound meeting. A moment of knowing and being known. A place of memory making, storytelling, rooted in the deepest and widest story of all. A sacred space.
Weeping, Confession, Resistance Without weeping we’ll never get to confession, and without confession we’ll never build an effective resistance.
Beyond Smugness: The Beatitudes Again If we can be smug about this radical teaching of Jesus, then we demonstrate in our very smugness that we don’t get it.
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.
Hanging on For Dear Life We find Jesus on the side of the road, I can only imagine stunned, at the sight of the wide-eyed rich man hanging on to the tree for dear life
Hidden Wholeness by Andrew Stephens-Rennie There’s this nagging feeling that has risen up lately after many of my recent posts, and it goes something like this: Why are you spending so much time focusing on individual healing?
Galatians: A Costly Welcome Saint Paul demands to know: Is Christ's welcome for everyone, or not? Who is welcome to join the movement? And at what cost?"
Searching for God On Tuesday morning I returned home. Home to Wine Before Breakfast, the community in Toronto where I discovered that I could still be a Christian after all.
A 20th Anniversary Reflection … in Gratitude Kissing the world beautiful. That's campus ministry! Shoulder to shoulder – sometimes in the library together, sometimes on the streets of Toronto, sometimes in sharing our stories – and cheek to cheek – in the passing of the peace, in holding each other in joy and in sorrow – we’ve tried to embrace this world, this gift of creation, in all of its beauty.
Is New Life Possible? Jesus makes new life possible. Not life driven by fear, but abundant life grounded in the assurance that we are beloved children of God. Each and every one of us. Even on those days we're told we're not. And especially on those days we can't believe it's true.
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?
A Community of the Word (A meditation on James 3.1-18 at Wine Before Beer on July 22, 2014) We are a community of the word.