Walls that don’t divide
To be the church is to live confidently in Christ; it is to know who we are in him. But to be alive in Christ is also to dwell at precisely the point of intersection between God and the world that God is redeeming in Christ.
#DeleteFacebook
My days of posting, commenting, liking and sharing on Facebook are over. My account has been deleted, the app is gone from my iPhone, and the social media site is almost nowhere in my life. After years of almost daily engagement on Facebook, there is little regret, and almost no looking back.
The Language of Death
We all know the power of language within public debates. In such debates, most participants will use language that aligns their point of view with that of the wider culture. And most will try to distance themselves, lexically, from attitudes and actions that have negative connotations.
Bodies in a digital world
Notwithstanding the obvious disadvantages of vinyl (cost, storage requirements, deterioration and a serious lack of portability) I’d still make the case for including at least some vinyl in our music collections. The importance of vinyl lies in the fact that it mirrors our nature as physical, embodied creatures.
Fashioning our self
The sociologist Anthony Giddens points out that in the routines of our daily lives we make all kinds of small decisions. But he also points out that each little decision (what to eat, what to wear, how to function at work, who to meet with later in the day) contributes to the creation of our self. In the modern context (in post-traditional societies), almost everything we do is about self-identity – about the making and re-making of ourselves.
The judgment and grace of strangers
It is one thing to be rebuked for something you’ve done. It is quite another to be rebuked by a complete stranger.
Face to face in Quebec
Quebec has been in the news again over recent weeks. And again it is in relation to questions of religious tolerance and religious accommodation.
Put in your place!
It is so easy to forget our place, today, or to live as if place were irrelevant to our life in Christ – particularly in our internet-defined, internet-saturated world.
Love is Love
“Love is love” seems like a perfectly circular argument in that it starts with itself and ends with itself and goes nowhere in between
The heart of the matter
So how does someone raised solidly in the Reformed tradition come ‘round to an appreciation for that formaldehyde-immersed heart?
Canada, a country of Reconciliation?
Substantial and difficult questions remain in terms of the relationship between Canada and aboriginal peoples, and not only in terms of the legacy of residential schools.
What are you not seeing?
For so many years, I missed this annual wave of feathers and song. While I have always enjoyed watching common backyard birds (finches, cardinals, jays, juncos and chickadees), I assumed that beautiful, multi-colored birds were a unique preserve of more tropical regions.
