Singing. Praying. Laughing. Learning.
This weekend was the Annual Meeting of Maritime Conference of the United Church of Canada. On the floor of the conference lots of business work was done. Some motions were made. Some debating was done. And so on and so on. But I missed almost all of it. I was with…
Beautiful Africa
This weekend we were richly blessed in my town. We were blessed by the presence of children, children who have very different lives than we have. On Sunday morning people from about 6 different churches came together to worship on Pentecost Sunday. Why? Because we had…
Brought back down to earth
“Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that….
Prayers for and of the church
The church is going through significant change, at least in the mainline denominations. Whether they like it or not. Today, in the United Church of Canada we’ve heard that 28 people will be notified they will be without work in our national office. 14 through…
Thirsty
“You never know how thirsty you are until you come to the well.” These words came to me as we prayed during one of our times of worship last week at the Cruxifusion conference. There were many moments where it felt the Holy Spirit was completely enveloping…
Church: The Next Generation
Over the last few weeks… months… years… (decades?)… there have been people writing articles saying that the church is dead or dying. Nothing new here. We’ve heard it before, we’ll keep hearing it over and over again. But…