ARRIVING HOME Amongst the graffiti in a Manhattan phone booth (remember them?), someone well-meaning if a bit overzealous had scrawled the words, “Jesus is the answer.” Below it, some wit or skeptic had added,…
IMAGINE CANADA Our local church out here in Manitoba has an informal time set aside on Thursday mornings for “coffee and conversation” at a café on Stonewall’s Main Street. The conversations range from chit-chat…
I call my monthly offerings “Pilgrim Postcards”, echoing an ancient spiritual practice of journeying to thin places where the obvious and the mysterious meet and mingle, along paths that have been recognized by others…
QUESTIONS, WE’VE GOT QUESTIONS … As a human being, it is natural to be curious about the universe we find ourselves in and the life we live. Such curiosity is a primary source of…
IMAGINE THAT! Single again, I pulled up stakes in Winnipeg several decades ago and bought a one-way bus ticket to Washington DC to volunteer with the Church of the Saviour. I stayed about a…
LIGHT IN DARK PLACES I have been thinking a lot about sin lately. Yes, I know it is a loaded word that conjures up all sorts of churchy baggage and may turn some of…
REMEMBERING Okay. So I wear an every-child-matters orange t-shirt when I go to the gym. And one of my jackets has some indigenous art on it, as do several of the protective masks I…
RESURRECTION An American physician of my acquaintance was once asked what resurrection meant to him. He was brought up in a Christian home, though he had become more Buddhist in his stated convictions than…
SMALL GESTURES We had finished our salad and were waiting for our main course to arrive: steak for me and pickerel for Tammy. We weren’t engrossed in conversation for the moment but, at this…
WILL THE CONGREGATION PLEASE STAND Tammy and I are cutting back on carbs these days. I could get all pious and claim it as our Lenten fast but, in reality, we are just trying…
