Author Archives: fromagefro

A sermon from Micah 6:6-8 I usually do my grocery shopping on Monday mornings.  I have Mondays off, so I make a menu for the week, make a list of what I need to buy, and take my kids to Sobeys. Last year, the Sobeys in Steinbach kicked it up a notch, and they got …

Continue reading “Lobsters, Reservoirs, and Eye Rolls (plus all my regret about that one time in Sobeys…)”

Content Warning:  Sexual Assault “The explicit nature of the biblical text calls for an equally explicit conversation about the text and, I argue, that includes from the pulpit.” – Wil Gafney, Womanist Hebrew Bible Scholar I saw something floating around Facebook a few weeks ago… some of you even shared it.  And I figured would work …

Continue reading “David, Bathsheba, & #metoo”

A sermon from Exodus 14, which is the story of the Hebrews leaving slavery in Egypt, and crossing the Red Sea. So, one of the things that the preacher is NOT supposed to do is assume that everyone in the audience knows their Bibles, or that they know the stories we’re preaching about.  We are …

Continue reading “Batman, Summer Camp, and Shrek”

Over the past several years, the stories have started to accumulate. Stories that seem to follow the same story line. A Christian starts telling people they identify as LGBTTQI* And then the consequences start.   I know someone who was told they can no longer call themselves Christian.    I know someone who was no …

Continue reading “On being Christian, following the Bible, and the LGBTTQI* community”

Have any of you heard about the Bechdel test? It’s a test developed by Alison Bechdel used to evaluate how women are portrayed in fiction, including literature and television and movies. The Bechdel test works like this:  If there are two women with names, talking to each other about something other than a man, then …

Continue reading “The Bechdel Test, Policy Binders, and Calling Out the King”

Why did Jesus die?  I’ve been asking people this question this week, and I’ve gotten some great answers.  My favourite, though was when someone sent me this picture:    Homer Simpson.  I definitely would have put that on the bulletin cover, but alas, our church bought these fancy printed ones with palms on the front. …

Continue reading “Homer Simpson, My Teenage Girlfriend, & the Last Male White Rhino: Maybe the Cross Changes Everything”

“What is truth?”  This is question Pilate asks Jesus. The good news for us is that this morning we’re going to get an answer.  2000 years of wondering about truth is all going to be solved today.  Lucky us.   <smile> To better understand what’s all going in today’s Scripture, we’re going to take a quick …

Continue reading “Homicidal Maniacs, Seven Miracles, and Sociology”

Many of us here know about a river in Quebec called the St. Lawrence River.  But do any of us know why it’s called the St. Lawrence River? Well, before Europeans settled Canada, the Iroquois lived on it and called it Kahnawáʼkye, which means “The Big River.” But it’s still referred to as the St. …

Continue reading “The St. Lawrence River, Life Sentences, and Super Bowl Commercial Flops”

Lent is starting today.  I’ve known for a while that it’s coming (you know… being a pastor and all).  And I’ve been wondering what these 40 days before Easter will bring to my soul. A few weeks ago, Alana Levandoski emailed her Patreon supporters a song called Hymn from the Desert, about how sometimes the …

Continue reading “Lent. Desert. Life.”