In 1998 my family arrived in Kenya, sent there by Wycliffe Bible Translators Canada. A year later, Wycliffe declared Vision 2025: an ambitious goal to start a translation of Scripture in every language that still needed one by the year 2025. I grew up hearing about this audacious goal and catching wind of the occasional…
Blessed (greatly honoured) are the mourners. (Matt. 5:4) Some time ago, I told a friend that I often do the children’s message in my church. My friend said, “Oh, I hope that the stories you tell are always happy because children shouldn’t have to feel sad.” Last August I was very sad. I attended the…
We had two hours to fill, my youngest son and I, before an appointment. He suggested the museum. It was nearby and something we’d both enjoy exploring, he argued. An easy win.He is eleven years old now and I’m not sure we’d been to the museum like this – just the two of us –…
Mary spins and the thread twists / at just the right moment. / The tension tight, she winds it / on the shaft and then smoothly presses another bit of wool, / pinches the thread, sees it wind into true.
I would recognize their handwriting anywhere. Right beside Numbers 18, where God is instructing Aaron on how the tribe of Levi needs to keep itself separate, there’s a vertical note to look up the Catholic interpretation in my dad’s distinctive scrawl. And adjacent to Deuteronomy 1:6, after the description of Yahweh, “who brought you out…
It’s that most wonderful time of year! The time to tune your car radio to Christmas songs and get a headstart on the holiday cheer. Maybe you’re groaning, but I love the final six weeks of the year, when we get to deck the halls and be merry! I also deeply appreciate Advent, including the…
As we enter the season when we remember the birth of the Christ Child, I feel called to live into the mystery of the Incarnation. Though I am a scientist, this is no contradiction. The reality science elucidates appears increasingly mysterious. How did light begin? A century ago, science gave us greater certainty. Einstein revised…
Before reading this story, please read Luke 18:9-14. Once upon a time, in a place far away, there was a land called The Kingdom of No Clocks and No Sheep. You see, the queen of that kingdom once had a dream that her only son, the prince, would either be killed by a sheep or…
Since I was a child I have been fascinated by those extra books found in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles, known to Protestants as the Apocrypha. These include Tobit, Judith, the Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, Baruch, the Letter of Jeremiah, 1 and 2 Maccabees and some additions to the books of Esther and Daniel as found…
Never before have I been stunned into stilled silence after watching a feature in a movie theatre. And it wasn’t just me. As the credits rolled, I did not notice anyone standing to stretch their legs or beginning to gather their belongings. It seemed to me that all of us were sitting in awe at…
In the season of Lent, we reflect on aspects of Jesus’ suffering for us. Unfortunately, the story of Barabbas has been radically misused against the Jewish people throughout church history. Barabbas is significant enough that all four Gospel writers reference him. Matthew tells us that he was “a well-known prisoner” and might even give him…
The first way that many children encounter the Bible is through stories – concrete events that happen to a person of interest and that reveal something about all humans and about the God who created them. Even as we get older, the narrative parts of Scripture continue to resound in our lives. They may also…
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