Pastoral Letter: Holy Week 2014 This is my pastoral letter to the Wine Before Breakfast community calling us to keep Holy Week.
Lazarus, Ani and Jesus On April 6, 2014, the Wine Before Breakfast community teamed up with our friends at the Church of the Redeemer in Toronto for a service that brought the artistry of Ani DiFranco into dialogue with the story of the raising of Lazarus, with Psalm 130 in the background.
She Knew What it Cost She invites us to count the cost. She invites us to pour out an extravagant gift. She invites us to remain in this love. She invites us to stay.
Remaining in Lent Are you in or out? Remaining, leaving, already gone, or struggling on the threshold?
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.
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.
Jesus Saves by Brian Walsh (a sermon on Romans 10, preached at Wine Before Breakfast, January 29, 2013) That neon light always caught my eye.
On the Fall of Empire This blog was originally posted at CatholicCommons.ca and is reproduced here with permission of the author.
Jacob’s Well Revisited by Ericka and Andrew Stephens-Rennie Each Monday evening this fall, we have been a part of the “Intelligent Love,” learning cohort, exploring issues of prostitution, trafficking and institutionalized violence against women in the city of Vancouver.
A Song of Thanksgiving Holy Eucharist & Baptism St. Michael’s Anglican Church | Merritt, BC A reflection on Luke 17:11-19 by Andrew Stephens-Rennie There we were.
Denying the Crucifixion by Andrew Stephens-Rennie We hate them. You know, those people who deny the resurrection.
Why Did Jesus Die? by Sylvia Keesmaat Originally published in The Banner – the official magazine of the Christian Reformed Church Was it because of the chief priests and the officers of the temple police and the elders?
Blow the Trumpet! Advent and Jubilee by Jake Aikenhead The Sabbatical Year and the Year of Jubilee are impressive institutions in the socio-economic life of Israel, but they aren’t regular topics of conversation during Advent.
Jesus & The Riot Squad by Andrew Stephens-Rennie Jesus was and is present on the riotous streets of London, of that I’m firmly convinced.