Church of the IncarnationJan 15, 20234 minLaboring in Change and Decay; O Thou who changest not abide with meI’ve been reading a book called, “Leaving Christianity: changing allegiances in Canada since 1945.” It looks at a breadth of statistical...
Church of the IncarnationJan 1, 20235 minGod's Mission: the opposite of Despotic or Totalitarian DestructionI’ve talked before about a book I’m reading on the origins of Totalitarianism: specifically, the regimes of Stalinist Russia and Hitler’s...
Church of the IncarnationDec 25, 20225 minGod Does not Stand Far off from our Suffering but transforms reality by enduring itThis morning we have a second celebration of Jesus’s birth. But our readings today certainly take us in a more theological direction as...
Church of the IncarnationDec 24, 20225 minChristmas Eve: God comes into the world; right into the middle of our suffering. You are not alone.We hear in our reading from Luke the most mundane description of the birth of this one promised by the angel. So mundane that it could...