I finished Yves Engler’s book on Israel and Canada while I’m here, along with Chomsky and Ilan Pappé’s book: Gaza in Crisis. What a history we (Canada) have with modern Israel, the settlements, Zionism, weapon trade, military training, economic support, maintaining the apartheid policies and oppressing/murdering the Palestinian people. It’s sickening and further disenfranchises me […]
Just finished reading Wendy’s book called Generous Spaciousness. I wish I would have read it ten years ago. Theological attacks have polarized the conversation around homosexuality for too long. What has been needed for a long time is a pastoral voice to walk into the midst and offer a third way. What Wendy offer’s with
At the beginning of last year I set for myself the what at the time seemed like the impossible goal of reading a book every ten days. Considering the years before I really only made time to get 3-4 books done in a year I thought I was setting myself up for failure. But the
I’ve always been around vegetarians but I never gave it much thought. I’ve always been fascinated with people who have convictions and live by them. The fascination with the conviction itself usually comes later if they are persistent. I am more inclined to see someone make a choice to live a certain way despite what
A lady who has been coming to theStory for the last few months handed me this book and encouraged me to read a few pages of it. I read them and then just had to read the whole book. I hadn’t heard of Scott Peck before, but apparently he’s pretty well known. This book, Further
I was born in raised in Sarnia, Ontario. There is a number of First Nations reserves all around Sarnia including Aamjiwnaang, Chippewas and Bkejwanong. Just so you know my level of knowledge going into this book, I had to look up the spelling of all three of those and I wasn’t sure about the names of two
Recently a good friend of mine, Troy, has decided to go in the way of the Atheist worldview. Troy has a similar history to me growing up in the Pentecostal church and as of recently we’ve been working together for the last few years, are neighbours and we share chickens in his back yard. Naturally,
I don’t read nearly as much as I should. But in no specific order. Debt by David Graeber – This book blew my mind. It is a history about money and economics and how it all goes back to debt. It talks about values and language and what drives our passions. It was quite a
I’m not a big book reader. I do my best, and when I find a good book it’s difficult to put it down, but I am far from considering myself well read. But this past year was a very significant year in reading for me because of how we are doing our message series with
I just finished reading Spencer Burke’s book A Heretics Guide to Eternity. It was an enjoyable and easy read overall. His thesis could probably be summed up in a few sentences found on page 61… “Religion declares that we are separated from God, that we are ‘outsiders.’ Grace tells us the opposite; we are already