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  • Progress Is Progress

    “Who despises the day of small things” (Zechariah 4:10) Last December 2022, my wife Sharon and I attended dinner at her parents for our birthdays. This had been a tradition for years. We arrived...
    March 10, 2023
  • Justice Prayers - March 8, 2023

    Your justice is as solid as God’s mountains. Your decisions are as full of wisdom as the oceans are with water. You are concerned for men and animals alike. - Psalm 36:6 (NLT) Catastrophic Methane...
    March 8, 2023
  • Waiting at the Airport

    December 9th, I took a circuitous route to the airport making some last minute pick ups. It was the usual dark and cold of winter in the B.C. interior. I traced my way through the lamp lit roads of...
    March 6, 2023
  • Wrestling with Suffering

    I started a new job as an Art Teacher at a Juvenile Detention Center in August of last year. Prior to teaching, I volunteered at the facility through my church. As you can imagine teaching justice...
    March 3, 2023
  • Justice Prayers - March 1, 2023

    "He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm." - Mark 4:39 1 Year Anniversary of Ukraine War It has been one year since...
    March 1, 2023
  • Food that Helps not Harms

    John Klein-Geltink is a long term coach for deacons and passionate foodie—as in food banks. In his work with Operation Sharing in Woodstock Ontario John has helped switch from food donations to food...
    March 1, 2023
  • No More Empty Dresses

    Think of your grandma, mother, sister, daughter, granddaughter and reflect on how special these loved ones are to you. What was the first memory that came to mind? Was it sitting at the table enjoying...
    February 24, 2023
  • Justice Prayers - February 22, 2023

    When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. -Isaiah 42:3a (NIV) Israeli Lawmakers Move to Rein in Judges as Protests Fill...
    February 22, 2023
  • Jesus Loves the Little Children

    The first time I sat in a Cree circle I was just fifteen years old. The Cree Elder did not present a ‘woe is me’ argument against white people for his young audience, rather, he spoke of the equality...
    February 20, 2023
  • Doing Climate Good without Giving Up

    Rev Dr Ben Lowe wrote the book on doing good without giving up. (Literally.) He works as Deputy Executive Director of A Rocha International. Ben shares the practices that sustain his work and an...
    February 17, 2023
  • Is our Help Making Partners or Beggars?

    As part of DARC (Decolonization and Anti-racism Collective, the new name for the Canadian Advisory Committee on Antiracism), I was asked to talk with BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour)...
    February 17, 2023