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  • Practicing Love in Polarized Times

    We’ve been hearing a lot of calls for civility recently. Maybe you have too. People are rightly concerned about the toxicity of our current cultural climate(s). (You too, Canada!) There’s so little...
    November 26, 2018
  • Holding Each Other Up

    I am the pastor of a church that has a lot of people involved in each Sunday morning service. We have a Bible reader, a liturgist, a music leader, an elder, a deacon, and a congregational prayer pray...
    November 23, 2018
  • To the Woman I Saw Walking to the Highway

    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...
    November 13, 2018
  • Help Reunite a Syrian Refugee Family

    In August of 2016, we at Loop CRC in Chicago helped support a Syrian refugee family in their move from Jordan to Chicago. It was our small way of living out God's call to love our neighbors and...
    November 9, 2018
  • A New Normal?

    Have you seen one of those glamorous ads promoting a rail trip through the Canadian Rockies? We’ve been talking about planning such a rail vacation for several years and it came together for us this...
    November 2, 2018
  • Bringing Forth Fruit Worthy of Repentence

    We noticed her standing just inside the front entrance looking up. While she was waiting to load her bus with the summer camp kids, she had stepped into the church foyer and saw the land...
    October 26, 2018
  • Re/Placing Ourselves

    Have you ever seen a tree so large that as you walked towards it you could not see the top and all perspectives of height began to whirl within you? We live in a land that was once covered in trees so...
    October 22, 2018
  • Recovering a Theology of Place

    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...
    October 19, 2018
  • Dish with One Spoon and Our Creational Calling

    Have you ever had the experience of reading something and suddenly all kinds of connections start going off in your head? I had that experience a few years ago when I first read about the Dish with...
    October 15, 2018
  • Dignity for Refugees with Special Needs in Uganda

    For the last two years we’ve been working in Northern Uganda to respond to the influx of South Sudanese refugees that fled here due to war. We responded through the WASH program—we constructed 770...
    October 12, 2018