“This Christmas season finds us a rather bewildered human race. We have neither peace within nor peace without. Everywhere paralyzing fears harrow people by day and haunt them by night. Our world is...

Advent: Middle English, borrowed from Medieval Latin adventus, going back to Latin, "arrival, appearance" Refugee claimants (people who have fled their countries of origin to make a refugee claim, and...

A reflection for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls: I saw you first walking out of the hotel parking lot to the highway You had your purse with you and a commitment to go as you zippered...

We so rarely know where we really are. We drive around in cars, spend our days under fluorescent lights in artificially re-circulated air, staring at screens and moving so quickly from task to task...

My family of believers and I are privileged to live, pray, dance, and eat among those the kingdom belongs to. As a family we seek to recognize Jesus in our neighbourhood called Traynor-Vanier where we...

We offer you this prayer and litany to support your congregations as they work to welcome the stranger, in word and in deed. Prayer Leader: Triune God, in Jesus, you entered our human world --...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“The LORD loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love.” —Psalm 33:5 Justice and hope. Can these two words really go together? Where is our hope when the poor are trampled...