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Love. My choice. My feeling. My MO My change My life Love has caused me to make choices I would not have made have feelings I have never felt Operate…
A Parable of Intelligence and Eternal Life
The most intelligent man in the world came up to Jesus and said “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life”? Jesus said to him, “Keep all the commandments”…
Are Counter Protests Missing The Point?
Photograph by Steve Helber I’m the kind of person that loves conflict, and confrontation, and disagreement because I think that it is one of the best ways to uncover and discover deeper truths that neither…
The March For Justice
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Can You Be Neighbourly While Celebrating?
What follows is a brief sermon I did on Sunday at theStory after Canada Day. It was meant to provoke dialogue and ask ourselves how we can be better neighbours to Indigenous neighbours. For thousands…
Why I Won’t Celebrate Canada 150 or Canada
When we celebrate someone’s birthday it’s a way of acknowledging a person’s life. Another year. This seems good. A way to validate an individual, a way to affirm their existence and value in the world….
The Desire to Convert Is Disingenuous
Art by David Hayward (Naked Pastor) I was raised in a religious tradition that emphasized trying to make converts to our belief system. Conversion was a central pillar of my upbringing. There was opportunity at…
Belief-Based Institutions Are Not Sustainable Or Effective
Art by David Hayward (Naked Pastor) I’ve been trying to understand and appreciate the role of institutions (the definition I’m using for institutions is “a society or organization founded for a religious, educational, social, or…
Become Volunteer for My Campaign
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Moving From Thinking To Experiencing
I can feel myself slipping. By this I mean, that I am starting to lose my (perceived) foothold on who I am, what I am doing and what everything is. Since I can remember, I…
A Discussion On Faith
A few weeks ago, Josh Walters, John Silvestri and myself were invited to join the Sarnia- Port Huron – Freethinkers for a public dialogue. There was the three of us and three folks from the Freethinkers…
It’s Time for New and Different Ideas
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On Rejection of God and Christianity
Christianity is a complex system of belief, rituals, lifestyles and systems. It makes no more sense to reject Christianity as it does to reject God. Some would say if you reject specific beliefs (such as Jesus’…
A Timeline Of Things I’ve Held To Be True
Growing up as a white, middle-class, charismatic, straight, cisgender, Christian male has been quite a ride. I’ve been blogging since 2004 and have published an equivalent of 1.5 War and Peace novels (838,208 words). I…
Needing To Be Strong is Lonely
Last year, when my mother was in her last stages of liver failure and suffering from hepatic encephalopathy, I found myself in some of the most chaotic and difficult circumstances that I ever could have imagined. She…
A Sermon on Humility
My own experience with humility has been quite forced. I grew up believing in the idea of being humble. My mom used to ensure that I would actually stay humble by constantly telling me that…
Tradition as Automation
When we are thinking, we have two parts of our brain. We have the Neo-Cortex areas, which we will call ambassadors and the subcortical areas that we will call primitives. The ambassadors of your brain…
The Remedy To Feeling Controlled Is To Be Anchored
I wrote this last year working my way through the Enneagram. However, after really diving into it I’m realizing many more things about myself that have made quite an impact on me. One of these…
Self-Awareness Or Insecurity?
I see two kinds of insecurity. The first kind of insecurity is one that thinks of oneself as dumb, bad, evil, a failure or a screw up. It’s a view of oneself that is about your…
Learning to Value the Temporary
My moments of greatest distress have always come from when a relationship is shifting and changing. A friend moving, a break-up, a client firing me, a fight….all these things cause me anxiety. (I’m only beginning…