The Democracy Of The Dead: Reflections On All Saints Day
I know Saint Paul personally. Or that’s the way it felt roughly fifteen years ago when, for two whole semesters of my theological education, most of my academic reading centred…
Pet Loss, Grieving, And The Church
I’ve never been a pet lover. For one thing, like every other member of my birth family, I have a penchant for neatness and order and couldn’t abide a dog,…
A Brief History Of My Prayer Life (How Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Prayer Book)
Introverts like me take naturally to prayer. We’re comfortable spending long hours in our own heads, working out our problems using our inner selves as sparring partners. What disposition could…
Praying At The Turner-Brewer Memorial In Saint John’s Rainbow Park
Rainbow park sits near the tip of Saint John’s Southend Peninsula and looks, to someone strolling by, like any inner-city playground. Steel and plastic play structures— their once vibrant colours…
A Day In My Life
If I want to enjoy a moment of quiet and solitude in the morning, I need to be out of bed well before my six-year old son— himself an early…
A Few Good Men: Father Absence In The City Of Saint John
With Jasmine well into the third and final trimester of her pregnancy, we decided that a lengthy and exotic vacation was out of the question for this summer (not that…
A Peculiar Odor
I can smell him before I see him – the odour of cat urine and stale cigarettes reaches all the way down the stairs. He is always wearing the same…
We Are Expecting. But…
Terence and I have the very wonderful joy of expecting a baby. She is due sometime in mid July. While we are over the halfway mark and things are looking…
The Peaceable Kingdom. One Man’s Vision Of The Perfect World
The following blog post is based upon a sermon preached at Stone Church for the 2nd Sunday of Advent. The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie…
Church. What’s The Point?
Christendom has left us with an heritage of large buildings that rarely are full to capacity and that cost extraordinary amounts to heat and maintain. For the shrinking congregations who…