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Prayer

  • Our Political Representatives are People Too

    I'm no expert but over the years we have met a few of our Members of Parliament (MPs). Maybe because we have lived in the ridings of backbenchers and they are happy to interact with their constituents...
    September 19, 2014
  • Lament for Immigration: Wisdom

    It doesn’t matter how much we talk, what kind of words we may use, or even in how many languages I can say something. If my talk does not go together with my walk, the words are just noise.
    July 9, 2014
  • Lament for Immigration Part 2

    Nehemiah could not ignore the dangerous state of the city he loved. The gates had been burned and it all needed rebuilding. Nehemiah knew that a city in such a broken state, facing constant threat...
    July 8, 2014
  • Faith and Business on the Razor's Edge

    I’m driving down a dirt road somewhere in Western Kenya. It has been raining heavily in recent days, so the consistency of the surface of the road is something like semi-melted butter. I’m with my...
    July 3, 2014
  • To Lament is to Reconcile

    Reconciliation requires lamentation. An expression of sorrow at the ways we allow oppression to persist is an important step before true reconciliation can take place. Accordingly, this is my reconciliation lamentation…
    March 31, 2014
  • 40 Days of Lent

    Instead of giving something up for Lent this year, try walking a new step on the justice road every day. We've put together some suggestions for you, one for each day of Lent.
    March 5, 2014
  • Fearing a Covenant God (sermon)

    Let’s reflect together on the God David describes so beautifully in Psalm 103, and how our fear, respect, and love of the faithful God of covenant relates to the call to reconciliation in Canada.
    January 27, 2014
  • Psalm of Lament for Abortion

    Lord, we lament for a world that does not recognize the value of every life, whether born or preborn. We cry out to you on behalf of the lives lost each day through abortion. We grieve with those who grieve the loss of children and grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
    January 17, 2014
  • Liturgy of Reconciliation

    Many people today, not just Christians, have a growing sense of God’s participation in their life. What is interesting is that for many, perhaps even most of the people who can do that, at the same time that our sense of God’s personal activity in our lives has grown, our sense of God’s activity in the world around us has diminished.
    November 25, 2013