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Holiday greeting showdown

What do we do in this complicated world that keeps telling us that we must get offended by the wrong holiday greeting? Continue reading

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Consolations and desolations

Reflecting on our consolations and desolations help us maintain a sense of divine focus as it forces to linger on our holy moments. Continue reading

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Setting a new precedent: sometimes a church needs to die in order to rise again.

Simply put, churches don’t come back from the dead. Decline is the norm. Resources are almost always dwindling. At the end of the day another set of doors will likely be closed for mission and ministry… for ever. But does this always have to be the case? Continue reading

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When the church is what it should be

This small note, so beautifully penned, is a profound illustration of what the community is all about. It is a faith-fuelled and spirit-filled expression of the care of one person to another. Continue reading

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On economics, values, and the common good

As disciples of Jesus called to participate in God’s work of transformation in the world the state of our country is an important question for us. It’s important to ask whether our country is one of compassion, justice, mercy, and love. Continue reading

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41 church deconsecrations and counting—but I believe in the “and then” Gospel!

I’m a 34 year old Anglican priest. I grew up in the days of large confirmation classes and cozy traditional worship services, but within my lifetime all of that has changed. My sorry claim to fame as a young minister is that I have witnessed the deconsecration of 41 Anglican churches and counting. Continue reading

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On power and politics and stepping off

Every single human being is involved in both power and politics. That means that all of us who live out our lives in the church are too and we can’t pretend to be exempt. The question for us is how followers of Jesus should practice power and politics. Continue reading

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The limits of your love

Perhaps the summer has shown I can follow the path, I will walk with God and others, to the places that God would have me be. Continue reading

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Sacred space

When we think of sacred space, do we automatically think of the church? Have we lost the understanding that church is a place we go to meet God? Continue reading

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Being saved from ‘gloomy saints’

The community of faith is a community of kingdom-focused, Jesus loving, party-goers! So why do we assume that life with God is a bore? Continue reading

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