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I wrote this as an attempt to flesh out some of my experience to the drama that unfolded with my most recent series of posts. I’m fascinated at how important we’ve made “beliefs” in our lives. It’s as if we think our salvation lies in what we think in our heads or the words that […]

Just before Christmas, a few women took it upon themselves to shut down Line 9 as an act of resistance against the corporations persistence to overlook their responsibilities towards the land and people they have agreements with.  The three women shut down the pipeline’s manual hand wheel and bike locked their necks to the valve.

Upon visiting some friends in Guatemala City at a B&B they are running, this question rang relevant again. Sitting on the rooftop of a city with some of the highest murder rates in the world per capita, and hearing stories of all the horrible things that have happened within eyesight of that rooftop, really puts

Last night I found myself in a fascinating conversation with friends about the differences between us.  It started when they were explaining the romantic notion of a book/story like Into the Wild, or Johnny Cash.  Two of them were trying to explain to me the attraction to such a story.  That there was some sort

The last year has been an exploration of vulnerability for me that has competely altered the way I have understood myself and my relationship to others. From our Men’s Vulnerability Group, understanding myself and what vulnerability means for me and the balancing act of how this works practically all of these things have established a new foundation

Lately, I’ve been thinking about the idea of why we share convictions. With my evangelical background, it is very natural for me to want to tell everyone the things that I am convicted about.  I’ve been questioning that natural feeling as of late. Take a vegetarian for example.  Why do I know who is a

My life is like a scavenger hunt.  I’m constantly searching and trying to understand the world and my place in it.  I’m pulled into mystery and beauty as I work my way through different realizations and epiphanies that are clues for what is next.  David Dark for me is like someone who is ahead of

This is a topic that has been bubbling back up among some of my friends lately.  As I mentioned a few days ago, there is an abandoning of the common practices and beliefs of some of my friends, and it’s resulting in an abandonment of the Christian label.  I am taking a different approach.  I’ve

There was complaints about Mike Bradley (Sarnia’s mayor) conduct from the staff he works with.  An integrity commissioner was hired for approx $60,000.  The report was not very becoming of the mayor and it recommended docking pay. Mayor Mike then publishes a letter.  Here he states that the integrity commissioner’s report was unfair, unnecessary and unhelpful.

Photo Credit: Ziggy Marley Album Cover When you look at western society (especially white, middle class society), what are the things that people have ‘given themselves to’ that as a result infuses their life with meaning?  I see three primary ones: religion/faith, jobs/careers and family. Some of us are invested in all three at once, some

The Enneagram test is a personality test of sorts that is much more exhaustive I have found than the Myers Briggs.  The descriptions are based on spectrum that also help understand health and unhealthy rhythms that folks get caught in based on their personality.  Richard Rohr recently tackled the nine personality types but from a perspective of spirituality

I’ve been toying with nihilism quite a bit as of late.  Ecclesiastes’ author has become my friend.  I start with everything is meaningless and then build from there my own sets of meaning that I hold to by faith.  This can be freeing, but at the same time isolating.  What is more lonely than only