by revnick | Mar 12, 2015 | Reflections
Yesterday I shared the following on Facebook (inspired by my friend Richard Bott): Hello, FB friends. Many of you know that I’m a minister in The United Church of Canada. Some of you may know that The United Church of Canada is going through a massive...
by revnick | Jun 6, 2014 | Reflections
Five years ago tonight I stood on an outdoor stage on a lovely spring evening in Montreal in front of hundreds of people. And in one quick moment both ended one journey and began another. Five years ago tonight, I moved from being a candidate/ordinand/student to...
by revnick | May 17, 2014 | Reflections, Words to the Church
This past Friday, the United Church of Canada’s “Comprehensive Review” task force hosted an online discussion on something it proposed in it’s report “Fishing on the Other Side” (found here). One of the radical suggestions the...
by revnick | May 8, 2014 | Words to the Church
We all like gifts. Getting, giving, opening, buying… gifts are good. But there’s another type of gift. There are gifts that are given to us for the specific reason to be shared. I’m talking about our God given spiritual gifts. For some reason, in my...
by revnick | Jan 10, 2014 | Reflections, Words to the Church
I realize in the post I made yesterday it may have made some uncomfortable. Not because the words I used. Not because I said something I shouldn’t have. But because what I talked about could invoke change. Change is scary. Change means we may lose some control....
