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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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;”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…