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  • 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
  • A Prayer for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

    Annie Pootoogook. Bella Laboucan-McLean. Cheyenne Fox. Jane Bernard. Therese Labbe. These Indigenous women and more than 1000 others have gone missing or been murdered in Canada since 1980. After...
    July 13, 2017
  • Advocacy Works: A Poem about Advocacy

    Welcome to our Advocacy Works series! Want to see other posts? Sign up here to receive them in your inbox. From April 21-24, Hamza was part of a group of people from three different Christian Reformed...
    May 5, 2017
  • True Worship & Fast: Riffing on Isaiah 58

    God is not impressed. Why, you ask? Allow me paint an evocative picture. Sing song, sing-a-long. Hands raised to high heaven, Like the branches of red oaks Only inches shy of touching the big blue sky...
    April 21, 2017