How Far Is Too Far When Protecting Your Community?
This is a question I’ve wrestled with for a long time. When you desire to be inclusive and make people feel welcomed and show grace to all it becomes a very difficult question to ask…
Category: Community and Living
Going Local Isn’t Easy But So Far It Feels Right
About a year or so ago I decided that I needed to start being more intentional about being present in my community. I had found myself torn back and forth all over south western Ontario…
A Catch 22 With Community
What is one to do when they feel its good and right to a more social/communal gospel such as living in close quarters, same neighbourhood, same house as others who call themselves Christians but whenever…
Changing the Story of Change: God Chooses New Protagonists
I’m only a bit of the way through the latest Geez magazine and I just read an article that I’ve been meaning to mention now for a while. Nate Buchanan in Changing the Story of…
Sharing My Stuff
Stuff has been on my mind lately. I’m amazed at how much happiness it can bring to someone. Watching my wife’s face as her bedroom gets decorated, watching my own face when I get a…
Living on Less
Every year my life gets more complicated. I’m trying to think back to the days where I wasn’t kept on track by a calendar, because I didn’t make appointments and my only commitment was to…
Living in Community (Communes)
All this talk about renting or mortgaging got me thinking about other ways to ‘live.’ So I thought I would start another category at the side of this blog and keep at this for a…
To Rent or Mortgage (A Third Way) Part 4
To Rent or Mortgage Part 1 To Rent or Mortgage Part 2 To Rent or Mortgage Part 3 To Rent or Mortgage (A Third Way) Part 4 This post won’t necessarily about choosing between renting…
To Rent or Mortgage Part 3
To Rent or Mortgage Part 1 To Rent or Mortgage Part 2 To Rent or Mortgage Part 3 To Rent or Mortgage (A Third Way) Part 4 I’ve had a few comments on my latest…
To Rent or Mortgage Part 2
To Rent or Mortgage Part 1 To Rent or Mortgage Part 2 To Rent or Mortgage Part 3 To Rent or Mortgage (A Third Way) Part 4 There were a few comments left on my…
To Rent or Mortgage
To Rent or Mortgage Part 1 To Rent or Mortgage Part 2 To Rent or Mortgage Part 3 To Rent or Mortgage (A Third Way) Part 4 I have struggled passionately with this over the…
Questions on Community
The idea and the word community has become sort of a buzz word in my life in the past year or two lately. Everything is about building community and I want to have meaningful community;…
Selling All, Giving to the Poor
Mark 10 is one of the most amazing passages in the New Testament because it is so harsh, honest and barely understood let alone followed. We all know the story. It’s the story of the…
Living in Community: Maybe A Few More Years
In the next few months I’m going to be moving back to Sarnia, my hometown, for good. I’ve been looking forward to moving back to Sarnia for quite sometime now and its finally happening along…
The Kingdom: Living Like the Poor
Over the last little while I have been around people/organizations that have a deep rooted desire to help the poor and dedicate their lives doing so. I live with the family in Hamilton that was…