Are you emergent?

Wow, so after spending nearly a week in a place that only had dial-up, I could tell that I had internet news withdrawal. No news, no fark, no blogs!
The leadership blog over at Christianity Today has an awesome article “You Might Be Emergent If…”
I think the book needs to be added to my list [...]

A Wee Little Car

I’ve rented a car to drive to Hanover this week. It’s soooo tiny!

I’ll let you know how it drives. Supposedly it is very eco-friendly and might one day make a good car for us if we stay in the city.

Rewriting the theology in hymns

Gretta Vosper has been in Canadian news quite a bit lately, as she is promoting her new book, “With or Without God: Why the Way We Live is More Important than What We Believe”. Over Easter weekend, the Globe and Mail did a story about how her church would be singing “Glorious Hope is [...]

From a Theological Tradition

Frank Emanuel made an interesting comment on my post on “My Library”. He said, “It is worthwhile having at least one: intro to theology, ecclesiology, pneumatology and whatever good history you can get of your own movement(s).”
It got me thinking. There are so many Christians who do not grow up and stay in [...]

Inevitable Reflection

My family put my grandmother into long-term care this week. Baba is 88 years old and has always been very independent. Since Gido died in 1998 she has lived on her own in an apartment in a seniors’ building. She was floor representative on the building council, and was extremely active in [...]

Religion is a mall

“The shopping mall provides an apt metaphor for religion today. The idea of the mall is that no single store can satisfy all of one’s consumer’s need. By analogy, Americans by and large have decided that no single church or religion can be expected to satisfy all our spiritual needs…Americans come into the [...]

My Library

Over at RDTWOT Nick has posted about what every Biblical Studies student’s library should have.
“Jim West gave a list of books that every young student needs in their library. I’m going to go item by item and see what I still need to pick up. Jim said:
Reference books ought to be purchased and [...]

Summer classes

I have registered for two summer courses at MacDiv. I am taking “Conflict Management: Leadership Through Conflict & Crisis” with Dr. Tim Quek, and “2nd Samuel” with Dr. Keith Bodner.
I am currently using Dr. Bodner’s book on “1st Samuel” as a guide for our study at “Unbound” on Sunday nights. It’s [...]

Remembering

Every couple of months I get asked to speak at our church’s ladies’ group. Last month when I spoke, the woman in charge asked if I would come back in April. I said yes. As I worked on my message/devotional, I decided I would talk about remembering.
Remembering is a key component of [...]

“Rickrolled”

If you spend any time at Fark you know that “rickrolling” has been kicking around for quite some time. The mainstream media has just recently caught onto this phenomenon.
I present you with the best rickroll to date!