“Lord if you were here, my brother wouldn’t have died,” Mary and Martha of Bethany both exclaim to Jesus. These two sisters, we hear in...

I remember this moment during my master’s degree where I was struggling to understand why certain professors thought I should pursue...

In our Gospel reading this morning Jesus reveals what I’d say is the climax of the Christian faith: “For God so loved the world that he...

In our Gospel from Matthew this morning, Jesus is led by the Holy Spirit out into the wilderness where he is tempted by Satan. Now any...

As we begin our journey to the cross this year, reflecting the ways in which we fall short of the glory God desires for us, let us...

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...