Why Young People are Leaving the Church The failure of Synod 2019 to affirm same gender marriage, compounded by the crisis of #ACCtoo, has young people heading for the door.
Unearthed Graves and Thrown-Down Stones: The Church, Pedicide, and Recompense. From the slaughter of the innocents to the destruction of the temple follows the same trajectory as the pedicide of Residential Schools and the burning of churches. Religion wedded to empire is always a story of violence.
Jesus and the Theological Priority of the Marginalized When we read the gospels, the issue isn’t “Christ and Care for the Marginalized,” so much as “Jesus and the Theological Priority of the Marginalized.”
Episcopal Authority and the Mission of the Church Why is it that the main issue around which there is talk about serious disunity is sex? And specifically someone else's sexuality?
“The Fruit of Faithfulness” a response to “Fruits Worthy of Repentance” Every single year I have a few students who are barely hanging on to their Christian faith. And the problem is the church.
All Things in Christ All of creation now begins to bend back into harmony with God and the vision of a deep and everlasting and generous and fruitful peace becomes something that you can just start to catch a glimpse of.
Scared Shitless – A Christmas Story You ever been that afraid? You ever been totally shaking in terror? You ever been scared shitless?
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.
You talkin’ to me? James and the Church Some thirty five years ago I published my first article. It came out in a Berkeley, California based magazine of radical discipleship, appropriately named Radix.
Becoming an Indigenous Church So what could this look like? What would church look like if we Canadians weren’t so captivated by what’s going on south of the border?
On Not Judging by Michael Walker (a sermon on Romans 14 preached at Wine Before Breakfast, March 12, 2013) In Romans 13, we hear Paul exhorting his congregants to “live in the day,” and to “put on the armour of light.”
This is That by Andrew Stephens-Rennie You could level a complaint against me. A complaint, or an accusation, or a question related to my recent series of posts.
Sanctuary, Jason Kenney and Jesus by Brian Walsh I’ve been thinking of writing a mock newspaper article with the title, “Jason Kenney Rejects Jesus.”