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Prayer

  • Confronting My Silence

    I wish I had taken a vow of silence. But I haven’t. Far from any overtly noble rationale, I simply went quiet. For the past 11 months, I’ve hardly done any writing, I’ve only read two books, and I’ve...
    July 16, 2018
  • Does Social Justice Contribute to Church Decline?

    S. F. Moore, E.T. Bethell, and J.S. Gale are not the names of trivia questions in the history of world Christianity game board. And yet their ordinary well-manicured graves, along with 145 other...
    May 21, 2018
  • How did Lent Shape Me?

    This year for Lent I was thinking about something a friend of mine, Karen Wilk, had been talking about in the lead up to Lent. She noted that often people give things up in order to focus more on God...
    May 4, 2018
  • Missing out on God Moments

    One spring I participated in a two and a half day silent retreat where I picked up two books by Scot McKnight, The Blue Parakeet and The Jesus Creed. In my reading and reflection times, I learned some...
    April 9, 2018
  • Oh Say Can You See: A Spoken Word Response to MLK Day

    This spoken word poem was originally performed at Where Do We Go From Here? for Martin Luther King Day 2018. Scott: Where we are, dusk of a king, a shooting star. Come back with me to the funeral of...
    February 9, 2018
  • Your Favorite 2017 Articles

    It’s been quite the year! Thanks for reading and learning along with us, as we wrestled with faith with the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other (Karl Barth). Here are the top Do Justice...
    December 29, 2017
  • Doing Justice in Spirit and in Truth

    Recently my pastor based his sermon on John 4, focusing on the verses where Jesus teaches the Samaritan woman that God’s followers must worship Him in spirit and in truth. Since then I have been...
    October 30, 2017
  • Canada 150 Sermon Challenge: Becoming Good Guests

    Hospitality was a big deal in biblical Israel. Abraham hurried to offer “three seahs of the finest flour” and a “choice, tender calf” to three men passing by his tent, even before learning that his...
    August 23, 2017