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Tonight, in a debate amongst friends, I asked the question towards the end: “what should the ultimate goal of society be?” The answer from the more conservative folks was “freedom.” I realized at that point that all of our arguments about politics, belief systems, religion and corporations are already destined to be ships crossing in the night. […]

Turns out that Fra Angelico, an Italian painter from the 1400’s has a response to John Piper and his whole masculine Christianity. Here in this painting Jesus is praying in Gethaname, the disciples are sleeping and Martha and Mary are wide awake. One is looking at Jesus while he prays and the other one is

Rachel Held Evans challenged to male bloggers last week in response to John Piper’s statement at the Desiring God conference that “God has given Christianity a masculine feel”, which she thought was “a strange way to talk about the Bride of Christ.” There is an amazing collection of responses already which is why I love

I’ve noticed a trend. In my response against consumerism and hating collecting items or my opposition about buying unnecessary goods, I have caught myself falling for another kind of consumption that isn’t healthy. It’s the insistent need for me to continually want and have new experiences. Whether it be extreme sports, traveling to wild places

Something in a conversation I had tonight sparked this post, there is nothing of substantial value in this post, it’s just me ranting. Fitch has an excellent post on this topic here if you want to read it, but I’m just going to wrestle out loud for a minute. Does the multisite church model work

I’m not sure what it is, but I seem to make my way into the public sphere a lot. Even as a kid, my neighbour was one of the journalists for the local paper and I would get my picture in there just for sledding down a hill. Now days I still end up being

I presented this yesterday at city hall in Sarnia, here is the article about the decision. My name is Nathan Colquhoun and I live and own a home with my wife on Devine St, directly beside the Inn of the Good Shepherd food bank.  I just wanted to take a moment and address the council

During the whole Tyndale and Bush fiasco, and after reading Dan’s post on Love, and pondering the attacks of many commenters accusing us of being unloving toward Gary Nelson I have to keep asking myself the question if it is possible to actually love a public figure. I don’t mean if you become famous no

Dr. Gary Nelson responded to our requests and decided to meet with us today. I am glad, not only did it help me better grasp the situation as a whole, but I hope it will also allow me to better explain to everyone else that is on this site what happened or is happening. Dr.

A few days ago we found an article written by Arthur Paul Boers, endowed chair of Leadership at Tyndale Seminary, on the Tyndale/Bush controversy. It was a beautifully written article about his feelings towards George W Bush, his use of faith and his upcoming event with Tyndale University. The article states that “If Bush was

This is a post I made on Tyndale.co that is coupled with the end of new posts until Tyndale responds. A decision was made at 8:46am on Wednesday the 13th to “stop it from happening;” in reference to the event planned between George W Bush and Tyndale. The last few days have turned into something

To the Board and President of Tyndale University I write this letter as a former student of Tyndale University College and Seminary, one who completed two full years at your institution, started the the student magazine on campus and has been sponsored by Tyndale multiple times to run events and bring in keynote speakers from

A letter I wrote in the local paper about the unnecessary rudeness of the Sarnia police force in dealing with traffic crimes. Sir: Recently a friend was pulled over by the police because he didn’t have a bell on his bike. Fair enough. He should have had a bell on his bike. However this is

There was a major festival that ran every year in the downtown core of a small blue collar town. They would shut down an entire street for blocks on end so that artists, exhibitors and musicians could share their gifts and wares. There were power cables running in every direction bringing life to the stages,

In moving downtown one of our goals of theStory was to become rooted into the lives, events and culture of this place. We didn’t want to just be a place that people arrived at from the suburbs for once a week and then went home never to think about it again. We wanted to pick a place

When we decided to go Iceland, we really had no idea what we were in store for. We got off the plane, started driving around and it was six in the morning so we were all exhausted. We picked up our rental car and started trying to find our way to our cottage. As we

It is no secret that the church likes to pick and choose which moral shortcomings it likes to stick on. Depending on where you live, your denomination, and your class you probably have a list of specific sins that are extra sinful than others. I grew up with premarital sex, drugs, swearing and not going

The place of the church is thus not in the seats of the establishment but in the camps and marching columns of the protesters. The protest may be pacifist, claiming in the name of Christ to renounce all coercion; or it may be political and revolutionary, claiming to embody an alternative order of government. In

The world is drowning in religion. it is lying full fathom forty in the cults of spiritual growth, physical health, psychological self-improvement, and ethical probity—-not to mention the religions of money, success,upward mobility, sin prevention, and cooking without animal fats. But it is scared out of its wits by any mention of the grace that

So ten weeks ago today I along with Joe, Robb, Chris, Ron and John looked at ourselves in a mirror and realized we were all gaining weight more than we would hope.  It was probably an accumulation of our wonderful lifestyles, white collar jobs, big TV’s and new found enjoyment of beer.  So we decided