Pain Has No Mystery
it's clear that people have a hard time connecting the dots between the miracles. I often do. We’d all love to see and experience them, but they are difficult to grasp. Pain is the complete opposite; there is no mystery to pain; we all feel it. In this way, Good Friday becomes the place where life and faith intersect.
Bill C-9 & Palm Sunday
The central question for us today is whether Christians are committed to modeling Jesus’ path of discernment and peace, or whether they are tempted by the call to judgment and arms.
Sandals in Snowdrifts
The qualities of grace are metaphorical pairs of sandals being used to walk through snowdrifts.
That’ll Preach
…I easily resist the temptation to launch into a hermeneutical discourse on the Bible, primarily because I'm laughing. The other reason is that a child's perspective is often enough to see the story through a different lens. A lot of good teaching involves shifting of perspectives.
Religion Management
Love is much more difficult because while it doesn't rely on the science of judgment, it follows the path of art. How do you know when you've achieved what you're intended to experience?
Death: Our Mutual Connection
Death is an erasure of creativity and potential. When someone you know dies, the plans you had with them…die with them, never to return. Death scribbles dark ink over our well written plans and dreams for the future.
Beds and Landfills
The bodies of the victims have been removed from the landfill and returned to their communities. The wrong done to these women is a documented reality, but the decision to return and find them is a redemptive thread woven into this story's fabric.
The Blood of Vikings
You, my friend, are the legacy of survivors. The eyes that read these words contain DNA autographed by generations of survivors from all over the Earth. Your bloodline contains strength.
The Pentecostal Diet
This kind of faith pushes Christians beyond the boundaries of comfort and into a world where they could one day sit at a restaurant and enjoy Filipino Sisig or an Argentine Choripan. Not just to enjoy the food but to love the people who serve it. A faith where Christians would learn to speak new languages not just to become comfortable in the world but to better understand and appreciate it.