In August 2017, after an arduous summer studying the Armenian language in Yerevan, I made a visit to the nearby Republic of Nagorno Karabakh, home to a population of 100,000 Armenians, members of the...
What does it mean to live inside Jesus’ story? The novelist Margaret Atwood has said that in the end, we will all end up as stories. For those of us claimed by the love of God made flesh in Jesus, it...
"You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you. If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every...
“To bring justice to the children who never made it home is to be able to identify who they are, bringing peace to the families and truth about the children’s passing,” said Kúkpi7 Rosanne Casimir of...
He has told you, O mortal, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6.8) My wife and I love watching movies...
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep." - John 10:11 New Pollution Rules Aim to Lift Sales of Electric Trucks The Biden administration on Friday announced a...
Am I strange or have you also left a website open in your browser just because you couldn’t bear to close it? For five months after the event ended, I kept the EventBrite page open and I smiled every...
I find Walter Brueggemann's framework of orientation, disorientation, and reorientation quite helpful as we as a denomination try to grow in diversity and unity. According to Brueggemann, our faith...
May I be a person marked by bright hope in the midst of the darkest of hours. May I be an Easter person. - Kate Bowler Terror Attack in Russia The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a terror...
As I moved across the Narthex, I could see my office door. Inside was a chair I knew I could collapse in and a desk on which I could place all the music, binders, and odds and ends that had...
In recent months, several headlines have pointed to the alarming number of refugee claimants struggling to secure housing in major Canadian cities, often leaving them relying on overburdened shelters...
Maybe this is what it means to be an Easter person - to see Christ and think, Gardener, not as a mistaken identity but a prophetic one. The seed in the ground, the body in the tomb - this is a picture...
