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Why Church? (Pt. 3)

I didn't feel I had anything to contribute except to share my nagging question of why we do church in the first place. That's what this talk is about.

by Andrew Stephens-Rennie

Communities of Reconciliation

What I hope for in 2016 is that I might grow more into my ability to offer such space for reconciliation. What I hope for in 2016 is that my own St. Brigids Community Vancouver will continue to offer in Vancouver the profoundly needed ministry of reconciliation, especially for members of the LGBTQ+ community.

by Andrew Stephens-Rennie

Refugees in their own backyard

A refugee in his own backyard. That’s what Joseph was. Bethlehem became a refugee camp. But these were refugees in their own backyard.

by Brian Walsh

Why Church (Pt. 2)

No church's story is a first person narrative. Even if that's what the talking heads on the conference circuit want to tell us.

by Andrew Stephens-Rennie

Scared Shitless – A Christmas Story

You ever been that afraid? You ever been totally shaking in terror? You ever been scared shitless?

by Brian Walsh

Why Church? (Pt. 1)

Every time the Why Church question flares up, it's because I'm in a situation with folks I'm convinced have forgotten why we are Church in the first place.

by Andrew Stephens-Rennie

Coffee Shop Prayer

Years ago, it became apparent that I could not pray the way I used to. And so I stopped praying. But this has been death. What I needed was not to give up on prayer, but to learn to pray anew.

by Andrew Stephens-Rennie

Faithfulness and Justice: Reformed Faith in the Face of Empire

Luther and Calvin listened deeply to God’s voice in scripture to address the pressing questions of their time. To be faithful to them we must do no less.

by Brian Walsh

Jesus, Authority and Healing: A Post Election Sermon

This morning marks the start of the reign of “Mr. Anyone But Harper,” a new white man who now holds majority power.

by Beth Carlson-Malena

Nazareth to Ottawa: Election Eve Reflections

Good news to the poor. Release to captives. Recovery of sight to the blind.

by Brian Walsh

Return to the Table

On those panic-stricken days I wonder if Jesus has up and left, all I have to do is return to the table. It's there that I find him in the wafting, yeasty smell of bread. In the glutenous texture and taste of that broken fragment extended to me by a friend.

by Andrew Stephens-Rennie

Living in the Tragic Gap

Living in in the Spirit means holding the tension of the tragic gap, living in the tension of hope and reality, and allowing that tension to break our hearts open, so that the heartbreak of God, becomes our heartbreak as well.

by Sylvia Keesmaat

Truth, Elections and the Spirit

[A meditation on John 15.26-16.15 for Wine Before Beer, August 25, 2015] In one of his most memorable quotes, philosopher Richard Rorty once said, “Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.”

by Brian Walsh

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.

by Andrew Stephens-Rennie

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.

by Andrew Stephens-Rennie

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