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  • Our World is Saved by Super-Weakness

    Have you ever been asked that weird ice-breaker question: if you could have a superpower what would it be? My answer would be super-weakness. Let me explain. I have always wondered why Superhero...
    May 25, 2020
  • Teach Us To Number Our Days

    I have long found Celtic Christianity and prayer to be a source of sustenance. Its tradition of integrating worship and work, prayer and practice, neighbour love and ordinary labour always meets me...
    May 22, 2020
  • Community and Connection

    Like many around the globe, my ministry, my family, and I have had to make changes to our way of life in light of COVID-19. This spring, Restorations had been looking forward to completing the...
    May 15, 2020
  • We Yearn for Loved Faces

    In the middle of a pandemic of their own, the characters in Albert Camus’ The Plague are weary. The quarantine, disease, and death are enough to exhaust anyone. But -- of course -- the painful things...
    May 8, 2020
  • A Prayer of Comfort During COVID-19

    I was recently invited to join an online prayer group of ministers and elders and was asked to offer a prayer of comfort during our time together in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course I...
    May 1, 2020
  • Authentic Lament, Authentic Hope

    This world is not perfect. It is not peace-full. It is not unbroken. It is not wholly good. This world witnesses hardship, oppression, death, injustice; and it walks on. Relentless. Unapologetic. It...
    April 20, 2020
  • Glimpses of Dawn - Holy Week and COVID-19

    This is Holy Week, and today is called Maundy Thursday. The name is derived from mandatum, the Latin word from which we get our word ‘mandate’, or command – and commemorates Jesus' new command in John...
    April 9, 2020
  • Being Christ to All in a Coronavirus Context

    Over the past two weeks rhetoric has heated up with regards to race. I heard one woman question whether COVID-19 was passed through Chinese food. I’ve heard from Chinese friends that they’ve been...
    April 3, 2020
  • Podcasts for Quarantines

    As employees of the CRC we’re working from home as much as possible to do our part in preventing the spread of COVID-19. So we’re sharing some of our favourite podcasts with each other and with you...
    March 30, 2020
  • Becoming a Better Racial Justice Ally

    Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. So he left Judea and went...
    March 2, 2020
  • Bear Your Own Cross: Selfless Self Care

    My friend Bush is a kind man with intense focus, only broken by the odd joke and corresponding side laugh. He is Indigenous, a survivor of residential schools, and has a history of homelessness. I...
    February 17, 2020