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Are you an Atheistic Christian?

Are you an Atheistic Christian?

This past Sunday I shared the last 4 of the 5 pillars of Jesus Collective. The 4th pillar, “The Holy Spirit empowers us to partner with God’s work of reconciling all things” implies that in the task of restoring, healing and redeeming our broken world that we are called to, we are not able to do so on our own and, thankfully, are invited into partnership with the “Helper” (Holy Spirit) to work together in this. This is a beautiful concept that…

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What’s My One Sermon?

What’s My One Sermon?

I have a buddy. He’s an old ministry vet with years on the battlefield, having seen the good, the bad and the ugly that being knee deep in church life brings. As a result, he’s learned some key lessons from his time in ministry that has ended up serving him pretty well in life, regardless of the context. One such lesson he shared with me the other night was this idea that people have a pretty limited capacity to take in information…

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Embracing Naiveté with Purpose

Embracing Naiveté with Purpose

The following has been adapted from the pastoral blurb in the Grassroots’ weekly newsletter. Well, I’ve started in this new role as your full time pastor. This past Sunday (Aug 20th) was my first official day on the job and then throughout this week I’ve been knee deep in the good work that all this role entails. It’s been good – like “pinch me, this can’t be real” kind of good. I’m so grateful for the opportunity to use my…

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The CBC’s Tapestry and Our Hope for the Future of Media in Canada

The CBC’s Tapestry and Our Hope for the Future of Media in Canada

I listened to the full CBC Tapestry interview with John Stackhouse the other day and have a few thoughts not necessarily on the content of the episode as much as the hope I have in Canadian media. For a public-broadcaster, it’s no secret that the CBC skews left. I do, too, but that’s not the point. Everyone/entity skews one way or the other. That’s reality. It’s the willingness to fairly represent the other that should serve as the litmus test…

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Big Trucks and the Road to Wisdom

Big Trucks and the Road to Wisdom

Media is a tricky thing. I should say, discerning truth as the media presents it is a tricky thing. I had the fortune of teaching a course on this very topic at our community college this past fall and the two-fold conclusion I came to after all was said and done was this: Media is an inescapable, all-pervasive and completely saturated reality in our advanced, technology-dependent, capitalistic world Learning how to discern and think critically about the media we consume…

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