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In following this Rob Bell fiasco, I’m reminded of some of my own misgivings in my failures as I am judged or I judge others. Categories and labels are thrown around so we can better identify what we like and don’t like about what someone presents about themselves. A few years ago, I used to […]

Talk to most wealthy people and they generally have this disdain for the poor as being lazy, irresponsible and unmotivated. As I grow older and I start to become more successful in business and in western culture, I have realized that those that are wealthy are not that much different. The art of business is

For my teen years a lot of my identity was caught up in what I consumed. I worked so I could buy things and pay for my car so I could get places. I took pride in what I wore. I loved gadgets. I saw money as a tool to get me what I wanted.

Expectation always ends up ending bad. The person with the expectations ends up being disappointed and the other ends up feeling inferior. Leaders with expectation end up getting burnt out and burning bridges with everyone around them. They end up not being very good leaders. Expectation ends up becoming the burdens, like those in Matthew

My favourite people in the world are in a band and it’s good. They are playing this Friday Night at the Trinity. You should go.

I am an amateur in terms of beer. But this past year has been one of a great awakening. I’ve discovered new and exciting flavours that I didn’t know existed. I was always skeptical of the Light Beer obsession of most of my friends growing up and never liked what everyone was drinking. Molson Canadian just didn’t do it

I am not a good reader. I don’t jump into books very well, I’m not into fiction and I have way too much energy to sit down and make myself read. That said, I love reading. So while I only get to reading a few books a year, I try to make them amazing. So

Brought to you by our friends at Landover Baptist, thanks for the link Chris Lewis and Bekki Garrison.

So we ran our Eighth Letter conference a few months ago in Toronto. It was good times. After the conference a bunch of us went to a pub in Toronto and hung out with Peter Rollins and we had a little Q&A time with him. Besides a few inebriated people the conversation was good. Rollins is

Steph and I tried to hit record on our cameras whenever we could. Obviously we weren’t using any stabilizing gear, or even a tripod, but I’m still glad we did it. Video helps show what we saw even better, the colours just seem to pop more. The song is by a Canadian band called Rah

I don’t know if you’ve ever seen the RSA Animate films; they are brilliant. They somehow manage to take highly intellectual lectures and turn them into enjoyable 10 minute sessions of learning. By drawing and bringing to life the content, these animators bring context to the words of these professors. You find yourself memorized all

Joe’s documentary, One Size Fits All? is online now in it’s entirety. The DVD’s are all sold out and so we thought it would be generous to offer it to everyone. Here it all is with a little note from Joe. It’s been four years since the idea for this film was conceived; three years

Since I’ve been married, I have tried to explain to Rachel why I am so brilliant. I say, “listen, I am an idiot, and you are brilliant, but you married me, so that makes you an idiot and me brilliant for convincing you to do so.” Take that as you want, besides her one time,

This is my contribution to the Eighth Letter conference we are running coming up in October. Thanks to Rachel for organizing a Syncroblog of all the letters. To The Church in North America It’s odd writing a letter to something that I’m a part of. It’s like writing a shared-diary. I consider myself part of

Of all the commandments of Jesus, the one that I see as most revolutionary is the one to love your enemies. Not only is the idea of loving enemies a hard one, it’s completely foreign to how any of us are raised, how we interact with each other and especially how we want to live.

It keeps us from turning commands found there into isolated rules of principles that are assumed to have special status because they are in the Bible. Rather is proposes that Christians (and we hope others) take them to heart (and mind) because they have been found to be crucial to a people formed by the

I’m reading this book right now called Mistakes were Made but not by Me and it is changing the way I interact with people and view them from a distance. We can be quick to judge someone who does something ridiculous, or believes something ridiculous. For example, if someone believed that aliens abducted him then

I love Lost. As most of you know I was a bit disappointed that it was all over and especially the way the writers ended everything, but nevertheless, it was still great writing and television. Since the show ended there are a few pieces I wanted to point to that are certainly worth the read.