Remaining in Lent Are you in or out? Remaining, leaving, already gone, or struggling on the threshold?
Creation, Fall and the Two Kingdoms [On the weekend of February 21 and 22, Sylvia Keesmaat and I had the great honour of participating in the TrueCity Conference in Hamilton: “A Tale of Two Kingdoms”.
Mandela, Calvinism and Derrida As I’ve been reflecting on the death of Nelson Mandela, two thoughts keep crowding my mind.
Jesus, Obama and de Certeau: Redemptive Tactics in the Security State Some opening thoughts on John 7. 1-36. It’s a good thing that the whole Jesus thing didn’t happen in the 21st century.
Joni and Jesus: Poets of Endings On Sunday, November 17, the Wine Before Breakfast community joined our friends at the Church of the Redeemer, Toronto, for a service featuring the music of Joni Mitchell.
God Bless Toronto: The Piety of Rob Ford “God bless the people of Toronto.” So ended Mayor Rob Ford’s apology before the press assembled outside his office this afternoon.
Poverty, Justice and the Fruit of the Spirit A meditation on Galatians 5.22-25 shared with the Wine Before Breakfast community on August 20, 2013.
It’s Jubilee Time! (Sometimes you have to go back to basics. For Jesus that was Isaiah 61 and for us at Empire Remixed and Wine Before Breakfast it might look like Luke 4.16-30.
Anti-Terrorism: Let’s get serious! Let’s talk about two bills that have been before the Parliament of Canada.
The Time Was Ripe: Bruce Springsteen, Hope and Jesus On Sunday, April 21, the Wine Before Breakfast band led a service celebrating the music of Bruce Springsteen at the Church of the Redeemer in Toronto.
Ambivalence and Resurrection by Brian Walsh (A sermon preached at Wine Before Breakfast, April 2, 2013, on John 21.4-19 in the context of U2’s “Beautiful Day”) The ambivalence is there from the beginning.
A Pastoral Letter for Holy Week, 2013 by Brian Walsh The story was going a certain way. Sure, there were some detours along the way and things didn’t always go totally as expected, but the overall plot remained clear.
Romans 13 … again: love in the night, longing for the day by Brian Walsh Returning to Romans 13. Wine Before Breakfast, March 5, 2013 The whole thing is really rather curious.