This Incarnate Faith
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 →
-Behind Bow Valley Ranch in Fish Creek Park- This was an article I wrote for the Christian Reformed Centre for Public Dialogue's Do Justice Blog (whew that's a mouthful 🙂 ) I wanted to share it now here, as we've just passed Indigenous People's Day and Canada Day here in Canada. In my circles and... Continue Reading →
--An Excerpt from my sermon on Sunday-- "Theology determine anthropology which determines policy. This sentence means that what we believe to be true about God will determine how we view humans - ourselves and others - and that will determine the ways we choose to live with each other. If we believe God does not... Continue Reading →
I read this book at 20 and it changed me. As you read this quote, you might recognize your own situation. For L'Engle it was the highly cerebral German theologians who answered everything that left no room for her. For me (and many in our culture), it was evangelical "just try harder-pull yourself by... Continue Reading →
"The whole creation exists only by participating in the life of God, sharing in His being, breathing His breath. "The world," Gerard Manley Hopkins said, "is charged with the grandeur of God." Such thoughts seem strange to us now, and what has estranged us from them is our economy. The industrial economy could not have... Continue Reading →
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