This Incarnate Faith
This prayer was written by a community builder, Agnes C., who nurses our city's most vulnerable, raises some incredible kids, and spends her spare time building and equipping communities of empathy - starting with the kids. You can find her work at Starling Kids where she lets people know ways to engage their kids... Continue Reading →
With even a teensy glance at the gospels (i.e. Mt 5,6,7), I see consistently that Jesus is zero percent interested in staying on the surface of life and staying in the realm of rule-following, and power wielding and outward shows of fidelity and 100% interested in going to the deep places that we often hide, or... Continue Reading →
My Grandmother's funeral was last week. All of her children plus all her grandchildren were there. And we celebrated her whole life. Her kids knew her most and most benefitted from her calmness and kindness. And we grandchildren benefit too from a legacy of life-giving, not life-diminishing. She was loving and beautiful and I felt... Continue Reading →
This prayer is truly a lenten prayer from Karen Wilk, posted on Missio Alliance page here. It is repentant, longing to turn. It is honest, it is willing to respond. I am here for what Missio Alliance are putting out there so if you are interested you should check them out. ... Continue Reading →
So here is a lenten prayer for presence in the fullness of little-ish kid family. Prayer for my little family Be in our eating, our laughing, our cajoling, our pleading. Be in our frustration, our crying, our words, our hard words. Redeem those words that cannot be unsaid Be in our cleaning, scrubbing, wiping,... Continue Reading →
This is a prayer that comes after the Act of Re-Membering workshop some of us participated in this past week. In it we heard stories and we embodied stories of real Canadians from history, and from today-often in their own documented words. That we, every single people group, are capable of prejudice and of... Continue Reading →
"If there is to be any redemption, this earth and no other, this body and no other, must have the capacity to take God's grace into itself." Hans Urs Von Balthazar in Against the Gnostic Heresies So I have a friend who owns a company that sells blankets. These blankets are handmade by women who have... 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 →
Let me say that humans are so strange. I know this because I’ve been one my whole life and I’ve lived with them my whole life. Even this week, I looked at my husband, who I really truly adore, and he looked at me, who obviously he adores, and we both thought – “huh?” He... Continue Reading →
Me: What's the hardest spiritual thing I'm ever going to have to do? Old Woman: To see every person as a gift. Me: What kind of gift? Old Woman: The best kind. Based on the way you receive them. Me: I don't get it. Old Woman: I know. But you will. If you receive others... Continue Reading →
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