Look! Here is water! Those words, spoken by an Ethiopian eunuch from the passage of scripture that you’re going to hear in a few minutes, kept ringing in my ears this week! Look, here is water! Nova Scotia has 7400 km of coastline. No matter where you are in NS, you are never more than…
The book of Acts gives us glimpses into the early church—those chaotic, passionate, Spirit-driven days when the followers of Jesus were trying to figure out what it meant to be a community shaped by resurrection hope. In Acts 6:1–7, we see the fledgling Christian community confronted with a very human problem: some people’s needs were…
In today’s Gospel reading, Jesus tells a parable about a fig tree that hasn’t borne fruit. Instead of cutting it down, the gardener asks for more time—to tend the roots, nourish the soil, and wait.
What if resting is part of growing? What if unseen transformation is happening beneath the surface? This reflection explores what this means for our faith, our communities, and the way we trust in the divine gardener.
Hope is not blind optimism. It is not ignoring the realities of injustice, suffering, or rejection. Hope is the conviction that even in the face of resistance, even when we are pushed to the edges, God is still at work. Hope is the courage to proclaim a love that is wider than expected, to insist on justice that includes those who have been cast aside, and to trust in the abundance of God’s grace when the world tells us to hoard what we have.
The words ‘hold on to hope’ kept running through my head yesterday, so this is the result, a new hymn!
Whatever goes on in the world, the church’s purpose remains the same: Love God and Love Neighbour.
Connecting Remembrance Day, a child from Belfast in the 80s, the results of the USA election, Brené Brown, Rebecca Solnit, and 1 Thessalonians 5: 1-11.
450 grams of dry rice or some other grain. 50 grams of beans/lentils of some sort. 50 grams of oil. 5 grams of iodized salt. That is a day’s worth of emergency food aid. And this is what it looks like as one of three meals a day. As most of you know, I was…
The ocean has always been a powerful symbol or metaphor for God for me. It’s the place that I connect with God most easily. Which is a bit surprising, because I didn’t grow up anywhere near the ocean… but the ocean means home. Whether it’s a warm summer day and the waves gently kiss the…
Trickery, bribery, lies… the Bible has it all! You probably expected me to say that the movie had it all! 😉 And it does! One of the questions that rolled around in my head and heart this week was: Does the ends justify the means? Normally my answer would be no… but after I watched…
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