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I’m walking, look at me
Sunday morning I challenged my congregation to do a few things. I suggested they should pray more if they aren’t already praying regularly. I also suggested that they could use the words of the Psalms as their prayer or at least to frame their prayer. Those, while perhaps new for me, are pretty standard things…
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He Still Believes
Do you know the Count of Monte Cristo? You may have read the book, and if so, my hat goes off to you, because it’s quite long. You may have seen one of the various film adaptations of it. This epic tale told by Alexandre Dumas hits at something central to our understanding of the…
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I Love Atheists
Every now and then I get to have some fun with a sermon series at my church. This August is one of those times. I have decided to talk about a group of people long marginalized by the church, atheists. It’s no secret that some atheists make it hard for Christians to like them, some…
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I always knew they were wrong
It might not look like it, but I am an egalitarian. In Christian theological terms, that means I believe that (among other things), in the eyes of God, men and women are of equal value and that the traditionally understood Biblical list of spiritual gifts are given to men and women alike. I understand that there…
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But did I help her?
The other day when my wife was sick, I did my fatherly duty and got the kids out of the house so that she could rest. My plan was to put my infant son in the stroller and load up the wagon with recyclable paper and cardboard, and my 3 year old daughter could take…
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Will the church be left behind?
Have you ever felt on election day that your vote doesn’t matter because what the pollsters are predicting is already inevitable? We don’t feel like that in Alberta, for the first time in a long time. A year ago Canada had a federal election and the pollsters were saying that Harper had a chance of…
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Maybe Trayvon Martin stood his ground
These days, you might see more people wearing hooded sweatshirts than normal. You might see more people eating Skittles than normal. If you notice this, don’t feel intimidated. If this warning sounds absurd, it should. South of the border, there is a news story that is stirring up racial tension and is bringing to light…
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Stop, in the name of grace
One of the first things that visitors and newly arrived residents will notice about this part of the world is that pedestrians are given an incredible amount of freedom to walk across the road, whenever and wherever they want. The question of who gets right of way is answered differently around the world, but here…
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Brown-named handsome man
There are a lot of people who don’t follow the news because it’s too depressing. Sometimes I am tempted to join them. I wasn’t a huge music buff growing up, so I was never a big Whitney Houston fan. Still, her name was big enough that parts of her private life were common knowledge. I…
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Manning Up
Did you see that video a little while ago where the American soldiers were videotaped urinating on the corpses of deceased Taliban fighters? It was disturbing, to say the least. Understandably, it made newspaper headline all around the world. What ever happened to that story? Were the soldiers identified and brought to justice? Was a…