harosies

  • In, Out, Up, Down
    June 30, 2015
    Neither the carriers of a Christ-yoke, nor the navigators of heavier spiritual paths, ever quite escape the...
  • Happy Birthday (Mister / Darling)
    May 22, 2015
    When airplanes (in literature and song) fall from the sky, there is liable to...
  • Salvation
    December 24, 2012
    If salvation is to rise again "in the faces of our children, and in...
  • dregs
    December 18, 2012
    In 2011 I made a Christmas card out of coffee dregs. It involved a...
  • Reading Genesis
    December 18, 2012
    Reading Genesis without knowledge of ancient languages, ancient history, archaeology, and philosophy is like...
  • If you were to represent God as a human, what would he look like?
    December 18, 2012
    The occasion for this question today is its appearance this week in a sermon...
  • radical redemption
    December 18, 2012
    Re - deem: to "deem" again e.g. I deem you worthy. I dub you friend I assign you...
  • whom do you love? what do you believe?
    December 18, 2012
    Most people that I've met hold at least two kinds of commitments: commitments to people commitments...
  • the act of faith
    December 18, 2012
    Allow me to deconstruct your world for you. It will only take a second. Faith...
  • transformation
    November 24, 2012
    Not so long ago, people were displaced, families disrupted, battles fought, and arguments heated,...
  • Marx and Foucault
    June 4, 2012
    Crude Marxism says "there is the base and the superstructure, and there is nothing...
  • montreal poem
    May 21, 2012
    Gotta get some bearings today, feel like I'm coasting. with ease, through this journey now. Like I...
  • McLuhanisms
    May 16, 2012
    When you enter the church through the backdoor you don't have to first swallow...
  • Cradle to Cradle Design
    May 7, 2012
    How do we love all the children of all the species for all time? stewardship...
  • Western Seeker
    March 9, 2012
    If you have to wait until your "Western Seeker" mode becomes outmoded, and uncool,...
  • pragmatism
    February 21, 2012
    Occham's razor favours the simplest solution. Water favours the path of least resistance. People prefer the...
  • certainty
    January 30, 2012
    Why are we convinced that in spite of the complexity of the world, our...
  • restorative justice
    January 30, 2012
    We should base justice on creating restoration, by addressing root causes of problems. This...
  • exile
    January 18, 2012
    Peter Enns compares Adam's banishment from Eden to Israel's exile, in this mind-expanding talk which I...
  • As far as the east is from the west...
    December 28, 2011
    ...so far has been the journey of the Genevan tunes. The Turkish psalms of Polish Hugenot,...
  • tentative
    December 13, 2011
    Tense sensitive quietly siezed by the day, waits, receives, depends, endures (inner) drought, takes taken-for-grantedness for granted beams intentional...
  • limits
    November 30, 2011
    Instead of looking at your limits as something bad, see them as blessings: gifts...
  • restless
    November 27, 2011
    Be still my soul the universe is on your side, and will defeat all your enemies and...
  • a pity party
    November 25, 2011
    Theistic evolution, when followed to its end, may lead Christians to question the authority...
  • breaking up
    November 22, 2011
    What I represent to her now is failed relationship, ample weight for sinking, and pacified potential, dragged...
  • plain and simple
    November 17, 2011
    No matter how hard I wish for plain simplicity, the world I live in...
  • For You
    November 11, 2011
    As a child, I listened to a lot of Christian music. I did not...
  • flying solo
    November 8, 2011
    In certain church subcultures, strength is derived from emphasis on marriages and family. That...
  • on CBC haters
    October 27, 2011
    So I get this random email criticising CBC for airing Katy Brand's Big Ass...
  • barmeno
    October 11, 2011
        I discovered this typeface today on the side of an "Adamson Lawn Care" trailer...