Category Religion
The Disconnect
He may one day be President of the United States, so I felt it was important to read the book. J.D. Vance has left me unsettled, with a feeling he really doesn’t know who he is. Communion, which was published earlier this year, is the story of Vance’s return to faith. It is the story […]
Twelve Years Ago Today
Twelve years ago today a lone gunman, who we discovered later had been inspired by ISIS and had just killed a soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial, stormed through the front doors of the Centre Block of Parliament Hill. For many Canadians it was extremely disturbing to think that such a terrorist attack […]
Not A Tame Lion
Meryl Streep as Aslan? The purists are up in arms. Director Greta Gerwig’s Narnia movie, The Magician’s Nephew is coming out early in 2027. This is one I want to see in theatres rather than wait for it to stream on the small screen. The Narnia book series, if you don’t already know, is C.S. […]
Spanish Train
It hasn’t stood the test of time. Truth is, it wasn’t a very good song to begin with. I was playing music earlier this week and dropped a Chris De Burgh best of CD into the player. Yes, I still have physical vinyl records and compact discs in my office. As the disc played, part […]
Sunday’s Thought
I saw this sign a few years ago in front of First Presbyterian Church in Pembroke, Ontario. I thought it was an apt message, so I took a photo. I do wonder though if signs like that are as effective as they were a generation ago, Do people walking down the street today know that […]
The Pew
I went to church, and was slammed by the passage of time. Nothing, and everything, had changed. It had been almost 25 years since I last visited Montreal’s Madison Baptist Church, the place my family attended pretty much every Sunday from 1957 to 1972. My formative years were spent there. Intellectually I understood that it […]
Haunting Words
“The cross or the machine. It’s always the same choice.” – Marcus Mumford, “Conversation with my Son” That line has been haunting me since the end of February, when I first heard Prizefighter, the latest album from Mumford & Sons. So much richness in a few words. I am not going to review the album, […]
Thought Provoking
I went to see Switchfoot Friday night at Ottawa’s Cityfolk festival. I was struck by the lasting power of their lyrics and the band’s ability to speak hope into a hurting world. I’m not sure how many times I have seen Switchfoot since they first began their rise at the tail end of the last […]
It Makes Sense
You don’t expect spiritual truths from the daily comic strips in the newspaper. But this one yesterday, from the Pickles strip spoke to me with its understanding of God, humans and the relationship between us. He likes it when all we want to do is say hi, and maybe get caught up with each other.
A Thousand Years Of Peace
With all the turmoil in the world, I thought perhaps revisiting a place of peace might be nice for all of us on this Sunday. This post first ran in 2015, and I have repeated it a couple of times since. Anything free when you are traveling is a good thing, given that travel can […]
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