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The Olympics have been a source of strife lately for many people. People are upset about how the Olympics are prejudice to poor people, and how they cost so much and not being a good use of money. So here is an idea off the top of my head. Forgive me for not thinking out […]

The conference is coming.  It’s only a few months away.  Things are going really well this year for everything coming together.  We decided to do another commercial this year.  It’s quite a bit different from last year.  We have been trying to utilize a lot more art and artists in our advertising and our media

In warm climate countries, time is different, they don’t work on tight schedules and time frames like we do. They aren’t controlled by the clock. I had an idea of this when I was coming to Haiti, and since I was away from home, uncertain if I would have Internet access, I knew I would

In case you missed this on my twitter, this conversation is from the US border in Buffalo on our way to Haiti. Us Border Guard: your going to haiti? Us: yes. Board Guard: you better be careful because your going to get torn from limb to limb Us: thanks Here are a few more zingers

I’ve been involved in an initiative here in Sarnia called Circles for the last number of months.  It has been a great experience.  It all started with a workshop I sat in called Bridges out of Poverty lead by a lady named Gayle Montgomery.  What struck me about the session was that it was one

Today was a big day for downtown Sarnia.  A large number of downtowners went to a council meeting where they were deciding the fate of the new Lambton Gallery project.  It’s been quite a long battle for some and we are thrilled that it went through. Here is the observer article about the meeting. What

People find it odd that I’m quite passionate about what we do with our children at our church and within my community.  It’s because I don’t have any kids of my own.  It doesn’t seem to stop me though from having strong opinions of how we should raise our kids, what role they should play

The $100m ‘loan’ from the World Bank to Haiti could be paid off as a fraction of the banking bonuses paid in addition to enormous salaries. (ht)

I’ve done quite a bit of design for theStory and for clients lately.  I’ve also found myself in the downtown core of Sarnia for the last two years.  Manley’s recently got out of downtown; our local office supplier and photocopy place.  So I thought that this would be the perfect time to start up my

I love technology and dipping my hand into whatever I can.  With the IPhone taking the mobile world by storm I just couldn’t help but try to get in on the action.  So after lots of random brainstorm sessions and lots of bad ideas, we came up with one that I thought had potential.  So

“True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path and fearlessly following it.” -Ghandi “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.” -Jesus Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto

Well, it’s happening yet again, we are tackling our fourth conference in the last five years.  This one is called The Evolving Church: Kingdom Economy and it’s on April 10, 2010 at People’s Church in Toronto.  We have been experimenting with different things this year to get the word out and attempting to be more

Sarnia fanatical and conservative Christians seem to have a really large voice in Sarnia.  It is unfortunate, because more times than not, I along with us at theStory, will get lumped in with all their nonsense.  A man named Harry DeBoer wrote into the paper recently with this post (pasted below). WHY SAVE THE PLANET

Lately I was shown a status update on someone’s Facebook that said “Just got back from feeding the poor, feeling great, I was created for this.” I am positive, that if I was following the feeds of the youth kids coming back from a youth night, their updates would have read something like “Just got

For some time now I have found that in many discussions have ended over and over again with being accused of being too idealistic or unrealistic. I find this hard to swallow. Are we not called to live idealistic lives? Have we not been given some sort of goal or aim as to what humanity

Dan and I have stumbled across a few videos lately that at a first watching thought we were watching a joke. To our dismay, we found out they were real; as in these people were not intending for this to be funny, which of course only makes these videos so much better. I warn you,

After reading through Andy Crouch’s talk on practices and purchases, and wrestling with some ideas surrounding church planting, I’m beginning to see a major dichotomy that I hadn’t seen before. The split is now glaringly obvious and I’m seeing flash backs of different things I’m a part of and how this split defines them also.

In working with Joe over the last number of years I have learned to respect his creative ways of doing things. I do not think like him nor do I connect to my faith through these types of endeavours. I guess I’m just different. I see my faith through lines of logic for the most

I found this video on Stupid Church People, this was just kind of crazy.  I don’t even know what to make of it.  I don’t know if Bakker should have been there spreading this agenda, and I don’t know what the response was to him after the message.  I hope it was still loving and