Light and Life

A few weeks ago, I attended a reading by Marie Wilson, one of the commissioners to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. And of course, bought her book, North of Nowhere! I’ll get back to a story that she told in a minute. Did any of you attend one of the public sessions when it was…

Called to Be the Church

The Tuesday afternoon Study Group has been reading Grounded by Diana Butler Bass. The chapter we read last week focused on neighbours and neighbourhood. She wrote about the common good and how many communities used to have ‘commons’ at the centre. And how she takes part in rich, spiritual encounters outside the church walls. She, like many…

Generous With Hope

I don’t know about you, but it’s been an emotional week, the US election, Leonard Cohen dying, Remembrance Day. Whatever your political persuasion, the election of Donald Trump will have a profound effect on us as Canadians and the world. As Pierre Elliot Trudeau stated years ago, “When the US sneezes, Canada catches a cold.”…