Wrestling with Shifting Faith in a Restless World
A few weeks ago, the church I’ve been attending here in Edmonton co-hosted a church picnic. Being a student, I couldn’t afford much in the way of food but I did have a vehicle I could bring to assist transporting people to the picnic grounds. Wouldn’t you know it: there was a new woman there…
“And this is the strangest of all paradoxes of the human adventure; we live inside all experience, but we are permitted to bear witness only to the outside. Such is the riddle of life and the story of the passing of our days.” -Howard Thurman The Spirit’s movement that nudges me into the quietest spaces…
My dearest Cubbie, Dodger, & Rex, Today the United States is in the process of electing a new president. Like the rest of the world, Canadians are watching with baited breath to find out in a few short hours who that new president will be. While we aren’t Americans, the impact of the US election…
There will be a new president-elect tomorrow on November 8th 2016. The level of hatred, division, personal, professional and political attacks we have leveled at one another has been almost unprecedented in American history. It’s trickled over into Canadian politics, especially here in Alberta where one woman — the premier — is the target of…
There is a time when civility masks our judgments and preconceived notions about others. There is a time when politeness serves our smug condescension, believing that we really are better than others. There is a time when cordial manners become the slimmest of veneers against our harsh, unmitigated condemnations towards our neighbours. There is a…
I bought a new-to-me car this past weekend. While I dearly loved my bright blue Ford Focus and went on many excellent adventures with “Li’l Blue”, it was time to find a vehicle more reliable on rugged Albertan winter roads. So I found a steal of a deal in a used Toyota Rav 4. Of course the…
Or to be more specific: start thinking about ADVENT. Stores have had Halloween crap out since the summer, and today we spotted Christmas cake and decorations whilst grocery shopping. It becomes harder and harder to tolerate all the useless, oppressive consumerism that both cheapens our special holidays and destroys lives around the world (making all…
