This Incarnate Faith
Kristy-Anne Swart is a Calgary based photographer and friend. You can find her work at http://www.upandawaystudios.com or on instagram @kristyanneswart . Throughout our friendship, we've had amazing conversations about art, faith, motherhood, beauty and so one day we just decided to record our conversation. Here is a "slightly" polished version of that conversation. I took... Continue Reading →
Once, when I was a grad student, living in Vancouver off of a part-time starbucks barista wage, I did not have money for christmas presents. So I decided to do what I love to do, have always loved to do, and do almost every day to this day which is, to tell people about books... Continue Reading →
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 →
DEEP BEAUTY IN THE BROKEN EARTH To see a flower in the Spring, we must Believe that there is beauty to be had In gardens we never will control. “Trust And hope that dirt becomes a launching pad For raising beauty in this violent earth?” The cynics scoff but have no solutions, Because they do... 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 →
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 →
THIS is why I love Walter Brueggemann: "Note that the Psalms thus propose to speak about human experience in an honest, freeing way. This is in contrast to much human speech and conduct which is in fact a cover-up. In most arenas where people live, we are expected and required to speak the language of... Continue Reading →
As you may know, yesterday The Road Church participated in The Blanket Exercise. It is a learning tool to help non-indigenous Canadians know more of the history of Indigenous people’s in Canada and what the effects of those stories that are still being felt and dealt with today. I was surprised at the level of... Continue Reading →
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