I love our reading from Exodus this morning. We hear about Moses going up on the mountain top to encounter God in all his power. How many...

I’ve been reading a book called, “Leaving Christianity: changing allegiances in Canada since 1945.” It looks at a breadth of statistical...

I’ve talked before about a book I’m reading on the origins of Totalitarianism: specifically, the regimes of Stalinist Russia and Hitler’s...

This morning we have a second celebration of Jesus’s birth. But our readings today certainly take us in a more theological direction as...

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...

Whenever we get to this reading about Joseph and Mary during Advent, I always have to take a step back and think carefully about their...

I want to begin with a story about a boy named Thomas. He was a smart boy and so quite sensitive, as smart people often are. He was born...

Imagine for a moment being a long-standing member of your faith community. You’ve been there your whole life. You know the ways, the...

Our reading from Malachi sums up the reading from 2nd Thessalonians and Luke well. So let’s hear it again: “See, the day is coming,...

If someone who had never been to church were to ask you what is so unique about the God that Christians believe in, how would you respond...

This week I was talking to my PhD supervisor who was travelling back to the US for his dad’s funeral. I had offered my condolences of...

Our gospel reading this morning presents us with a pretty straightforward message: do not think that you have everything worked out...

To really understand our Gospel lesson this morning, we've got to recall what had just happened. From Jesus and the disciples, five...

Our Gospel from Luke this morning clarifies what it really means to be a disciple or learner and follower of Jesus. As you might imagine,...

This morning we carry on with a theme in Jesus’s parables where once again, wealth seems to stand as a foil to the reception of grace....

In our Gospel lesson this morning, Jesus tells the parable of a rich man who has a manager who essentially doles out the various products...

When I was in the first or second grade, I asked my dad if I could carve the pumpkin. My dad said, “no. Your hand will slip up the knife...

This morning’s Gospel begins with a bit of a zinger: “Now large crowds were traveling with Jesus; and he turned and said to them,...

I want to ask you: what is the most important characteristic, what the church sometimes refers to as a virtue, that has allowed you to...

The other day I was having a discussion with one of my mentors. He asked how I was doing and I said, ‘I don’t know how I feel. All I see...