Some More Thoughts On Homosexuality
A recent post of mine entitled The Question of Homosexuality is the Wrong Question has received quite a bit of feedback, both positive and negative. One church in the city has even read from my…
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Some Posts For Bridging the Gap
I spent some time over the last week reading all the 60 or so posts for the Synchro blog. All these bloggers came together to share their thoughts on how to bridge the gap between…
The Question of Homosexuality Is the Wrong Question
Update: The exposure for this post has created quite a stir, both positive and negative, so I have written a bit more on the subject here to help clarify and explain some of this post…
Twitter Vs FriendFeed
Twitter for the most part is annoying. The last thing I want to do all day is sit in front of my computer and use one of the eight million or so add-ons/programs/features of Twitter…
Questioning the System While Being Part Of It
Doubt is kind of a terrifying thing, or at least I was told it should be. When you start to doubt things you start to relinquish control over whatever you are doubting. If you give…
Money and Why God Doesn’t Care
I’ve been finding myself getting more and more frustrated lately with how people spend their money. When I hear stories of 2 million dollar church building projects, 50 thousand dollar pothole fundraising campaigns, the 40…
Standing Up For What you Believe When You Are Part of the Problem
Geez Magazine this month was brilliant. It has hit me where I feel stuck in my faith as of late. I feel stuck because “standing up for what you believe in is awkward, especially when…
Jim Stokley, A Response to a Skeptic
Update: I really do not want this post to become a central topic surrounding the death of Jim Stokley. Jim was an important part of this city, and I hope that we can see him…
The Parable About the Building (An Original Parable)
Darryl’s been doing some writing lately. He’s written a few parables and one we thought was a perfect fit to end our 8 months series on the parables at theStory. So Joe and I took…
Photoshoot At Holmes Foundry
I went out with Troy Shantz (who is my newest friend here renting space from theStory) and Nikki Gould on a trash the dress shoot. We ended up at the old Holmes Foundry and exploring….
Invite-Only Conferences, Big Churches, Small Pay Checks and Old Cranky Men
I’m tired of big monster churches, leaders and organizations not caring about the small and insignificant. It’s everywhere. This conference has been going on in the States for the last few years. It’s called Q….
Either Go Big and Have a Few Meaningful Connections or Stay Small and Have a Few Meaningful Connections
The title says it all really. I’ve been wrestling with this, publicly even, for a while now. I’m just realizing that no matter how hard I try to create a name for myself, my friendships…
The One About the Two Debtors (A Sermon on Luke 7:36-50)
This is one of my favourite parables. I’ve brought it up over and over again here on Sunday mornings and because I think in it lies truths that we all need to hear over and…
Skydiving Pictures
Well Rachel and I crossed yet another item of her Things Before I Die (or what some call Bucket List). We went skydiving today. We found a place that let us free fall for 30…
A Few Videos
I’ve stopped doing links on my site and moved over to Google Reader, Delicious and Twitter as a better way to share things I’m doing, reading and watching online. It’s much less time-consuming and less…
The Good News Series
Update: Here is my post on the Good News as part of the series I describe blow. I went to Los Angeles in October last year and I asked David Fitch if while I was…
The One About the Rich Fool (A Sermon on Luke 12:13-21)
Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” Jesus replied, “Man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you? A rabbi in this time…
Driving on City Sidewalks on Relevant
Driving on City Sidewalks. My favourite band. Two of my best friends. The brilliant musicians behind the soundtrack of One Size Fits All? and their EP Where Angels Crowd to Listen got on the frontpage…
Tabled on Easter Friday
Each Easter Friday, Joe goes all out putting a service together than usually incorporates heavy imagery, liturgy and creative response. Today was no different. Today we followed a liturgy built by him, sang a few…
Shooting Guns in the foothills of the Black Mountains, Arizona
So here is a completely random experience that Ron and I had in Las Vegas. Ron saw an advertisement to shoot a gun at a range on some brochure. So like Ron does, he was…