Researchers have discovered hundreds of expressions of the Golden Rule – from ancient and modern sources as well as from religious and non-religious sources. Research efforts have also uncovered numerous commentaries on the Golden Rule from well-known individuals in a number of fields...
God Is Still Speaking
Deep in our hearts
Put Out Into Deep Water
Professor Adam Copeland teaches Pastoral Leadership at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. He knows a thing or two about how to motivate people to make a change. February is African History Month and it would appropriate to lift up one of lessons Copeland offers his students when it comes to liberation. I don’t need to tell you that music can affect us deeply...
My Favorite Words
Words matter. I am a person who tends to value the connecting point of words to action, how words and action come together. I also tend to be suspicious of words that result in no action and action that is reflexive, just following a familiar habit with no sense of purpose or insight. In short, I like visions but visions without follow through are useless by my standard...
Resources for families of persons diagnosed with a mental illness
Philip Moscovitch
Books and Halifax-based resources for families of people diagnosed with mental illness ...
The rise of the early church
Groundhog Day
Deep River
Paul: A Biography by Tom Wright
For years, believing creatives of all sorts have eschewed the dreaded title “Christian artist.” We don’t say that Christian chefs make “Christian food,” some variation of the argument goes, so why must we have “Christian movies” and “Christian music”? In his new book, Paul: A Biography, renowned biblical scholar and historian N.T. Wright suggests...
Love Nevers Ends
Choosing a Bible Translation
Offering/risking an alternative
In the mid 1980’s and late 1980’s I undertook my theological studies. The more academic Masters of Theological Studies and the more profession-related Masters of Divinity afforded me the opportunity to dig deeper in my faith, ask questions and ponder deeper possibilities, ask myself what kind of a God I imagined, what kind of faith I wanted to live into and what kind of discipleship I wanted to embody...
The United Church of Canada 2.0
Does God care who wins the Super Bowl?
Living in a glass house? Don't throw one stone, throw two
Personal Relationship with God
Release to the Captives
Around this time of year my mind usually wanders to Bangor Maine. Why? In the mid and late 1990’s I came to know two retired United Church Ministers, one lived in the valley and the other lived in New Brunswick. I discovered that every late January they would drive from Saint John to Bangor and attend a series of lectures by distinguished preachers and scholars in the United States...
This is the Day
What is it that makes us happy? For me it is about a mission, a reason to get up in the morning and do and be and connect. I want to make a contribution to something larger than self, I want to be whom I believe I was called to be and I want to connect with others and the Other. When I am about the mission of these goals I feel happy...
Take Up Your Mat and Walk
John 5
Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” The sick man answered him…