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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.

by Andrew Stephens-Rennie

A Targum On Not Forgetting Who You Are

The day after … you know where you are, you know who you are, so clothe yourselves in Christ

by Brian Walsh

Cohen, Democracy and Trump

Greed and hate will always still-birth democracy. Greed and hate will always sabotage justice, and leave us shipwrecked.

by Brian Walsh

Evangelicals, Temptation and Apostasy

A church that could so blindly follow a demagogue like Donald Trump has lost its soul.

by Brian Walsh

The Don Valley Baptist (aka, John of the Don)

There was something about this waterside preacher that rang true. I think he was a Baptist.

by Brian Walsh

Donald, Pat and Jesus

A pastoral word for a persecuted President?

by Brian Walsh

Romans 12&13 Remixed: A Post-Inauguration Targum

Time is up for the oppressive laws of the state, so obey the law of love. Time is up for the empire, so live in the Kingdom.

by Brian Walsh

Prayer in Troubled Times

We said to ourselves, “We believe in Jesus plus white supremacy; Jesus plus comfortability.” We preached this in churches. We obscured Your teachings; there is no longer any prophet, and there is no one among us who knows how long.

by Emily Ulmer

A Penthouse or a Stable?

They have all come, either summoned or seeking an audience. In and out of Trump Tower, the rich, the powerful, the celebrities, have come to see the one who will be president.

by Brian Walsh

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?

by Brian Walsh

Celtic Soul at the End of a Very Bad Week

What we have seen in the last week, and what Isaiah saw in the ruins of Israel is the failure of imagination, the inability to imagine life radically different from the status quo.

by Brian Walsh

An Election Prayer: Too Late for America?

It is too late to pray for this election. Is it too late to pray for the United States? Is it too late for America?

by Brian Walsh

“Law and Order” and the Ten Commandments

Are the ten commandments the foundation of “law and order” or its deconstruction? Are they words of repression or liberation? Do they impose a restrictive law “written in stone” as it were, or are they a call to a life of covenantal faithfulness? Do they legitimate blind and patriotic obedience to the state, or are they a radical word of revolution and civil disobedience?

by Brian Walsh

Nazareth to Ottawa: Election Eve Reflections

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

by Brian Walsh

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

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