Lost in Translation: Rethinking the Birth of Jesus

How we imagine Jesus’ birth shapes how we understand community, hospitality, and our responsibility to one another.

A Reflection for the Longest Night

And so we gather in the dark — not to escape it, but to honour it.
Because darkness is honest. It does not pretend.
Because darkness is where seeds grow.
And because, as the gospel writer tells us, “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it.”

Born Again and Again

How can we share our faith?

Deep Spirituality, Bold Discipleship, Daring Justice

Welcome back to Theological Banquet! We’re in a five-part series inspired by Undivided Love and Rev. Janet Gear’s research, using a banquet metaphor for different faith expressions. Understanding these categories helps us see how people are motivated by faith and even when they disagree with us—all paths are valid. Last week, we focused on those…

Unlearn and Learn

I thought I knew a fair bit about Indigenous Peoples in Canada. I lived in Labrador for three years and went to school with Indigenous students, although it was as a teenager. I was married to an Inuit man. I did my grad project at AST on Residential Schools. NOTHING however, prepared me for a…

Presence

Surely, the presence of the Lord is in this place. As I pondered the very long reading this week, that line from the hymn we sang a few minutes ago, kept ringing through my head. Surely the presence of the Lord is in this place. I could remember singing it… I went searching in the…

Don’t Throw Hope Off the Cliff

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.

Our Purpose Remains the Same

Whatever goes on in the world, the church’s purpose remains the same: Love God and Love Neighbour.

When You Change the Way You Look at Things… the Things You Look At, Change…

What if we viewed our churches though the lens of abundance instead of scarcity; what kind of energy and ministry would be unleashed?

Living in the Light

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.