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.

Contempt, the Commons and Justice: Two Economies

by Brian Walsh Kentucky poet, farmer, essayist, novelist and profoundly wise man, Wendell Berry once said that there were two kinds of economy: There is the kind of economy that exists to protect the “right” of profit, as does our present public economy; this sort of economy will inevitably gravitate toward the protection of the “rights” of those who profit most.

Jesus on the Campaign Trail

by Brian Walsh When Jesus was on the campaign trail he made his platform clear from the outset.

Dueling Beatitudes

Perhaps you’ll remember a number of months ago when we posted Joe Abbey-Colborne’s rendition of The Beatitudes of Our Current Church Culture.

The Beatitudes of Our Current Church Culture

In a recent sermon at Wine Before Breakfast, Joe AC, pastoral director of Parkdale Neighbourhood Church in Toronto concluded with these modern day Beatitudes from the perspective of our contemporary, self-satisfied church culture.