This Incarnate Faith
Between the Dark and the Daylight, Mary Pratt, 2011 AND HERE WE ARE! Number 6 of 6. We’ve heard from 7 women in total. 7 very different women of different ages, different life experiences, different places of work and calling—and all of them looking at their own life and seeing something very valuable. ... Continue Reading →
Pears on a Paper Doily, Mary Pratt, 1989 One of the best things about this whole project is to hear from different voices – the different language and vocabulary they use, the terms that have deep meaning to them. I’m also just struck by how they interpret the questions and form a response. For... Continue Reading →
Supper Table, Mary Pratt, 1969 In this fourth installment of the Everyday Influence project we will hear from Jodi. Jodi is an activist, entrepreneur, retreat facilitator, incredible question asker. Her deep insights really centre in questions of community – human community but also ecology – how every alive thing and process is connected. She... Continue Reading →
Specimen From Another Time, Mary Pratt, 2001 OK!!!! It’s the third! Today we will hear from Beth. Beth is a wife, mom, theologian, a professor, a church leader. She is a tenured prof at Ambrose Seminary. Beth and I (and her husband Jon) met as students at Regent College in Vancouver and to my... Continue Reading →
Hollowed Eggs, Mary Pratt, 1983 Everyday people, doing everyday things, thinking everyday thoughts –this is what shapes the world. In this series of everyday influence, I asked everyday women what influence looks like in their lives. And I got incredible responses from them. This is our second post in this series and here we... Continue Reading →
Smears of Jam, Lights of Jelly by Mary Pratt, 2007 A friend and I were talking in her living room in the last week of summer. My kids were at a camp, hers were playing downstairs in the basement. The conversation rambled as it does when you are with good friends. Soon we found... Continue Reading →
---This is a blog post by Rob Bonk (yes, THAT Rob Bonk...my dad) that he posted on the Ubuntu trip's blogsite. He just went to Malawi in July with a team of The Road Church members to witness and participate in the work of the "Church in Community" program that World Renew supports there. While there... Continue Reading →
(Ordination Day) I started working as a pastor and as a university chaplain last year. Officially 28 hours per week. Ended up being between 32-40 almost every week. The jobs are a mix of a lot of meetings, lots of leading, public speaking, organizing, and a lot of alone time, reading and writing and praying.... Continue Reading →
So I worry. About all sorts of things. I’m pretty sure it’s the reason why animals in my house turn out a bit funky—they live in a soup of my worry pheromones…poor things. Since my mom passed away, I’ve noticed more about how anxiety sits in me, how my body holds it. When its really... Continue Reading →
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