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We’ve explored as to why LGBTQ inclusion has become the new orthodoxy test, even though it hasn’t been part of any credal confession for the past 2000 years. As a way forward, I’d like to offer two suggestions for everyone (There are a lot more important ones, especially ones addressing how we best keep teenagers …
Continue reading “The New Orthodoxy Test – Part Four: Bird Song”
This post has taken me a bit longer to figure out. I’ve asked myself over and over again, “Why the heck are some people in church so opposed to this?” Will society break down over the approximately 50 same-sex marriages performed in Manitoba a year? If only 4-5% of the population identifies as LGBTQ, and …
Thinking through and writing this post was actually quite easy for me. I asked one of gay friends if we as a church should make some sort of formal statement, and his response was, “Do you have a statement welcoming black people?” I also had a short conversation with someone who said to me, “My …
Continue reading “The New Orthodoxy Test – Part Two: It`s All About Equality”
It’s Pride Week in Manitoba. So let’s talk about sexuality and Christianity. You know, because nobody else is doing that, right? Over the past several years, I’ve noticed something about sexuality and faith that I find interesting. It appears that one’s posture towards sexual minorities has turned into a modern day orthodoxy test in the …
Continue reading “The New Orthodoxy Test – Part One: Why???”
Based on Acts 2:42-47, that part of Acts where people got together around bread and wine and shared their stuff and were happy about it. A couple of months ago, I was listening to a podcast, and the host, Pete Holmes, asked the guest, Rob Bell, “Given what we know about how the Bible was …
Continue reading “SOMETHING happened – Podcasts, No WIFI, and Angry Facebook Posts”
How’s that for a click bait title? In March, I went to California to spend a few days with Rob Bell and Richard Rohr. Both are gifted authors and communicators, and it was truly a gift to see them riff together for sixteen hours without notes, and not only blow my mind, but blow each …
Continue reading “You’ll never guess what Richard Rohr said about Mennonites!”
Based on Romans 6:1-14. ____________ About eight years ago, a friend gave me Gandhi’s autobiography and said that I should read it. Have you ever seen how thick that book is? And technical? But, read it I did. I slogged through it, sometimes amazed at Gandhi’s life, and other times in shock at the extremities …
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What an inspiring book. Practical. Easy to read. Insightful. Story-filled. Honest. Vulnerable. Using stories from the life of St. Patrick, Alcoholics Anonymous, his own life, and ultimately Jesus, Jamie Arpin-Ricci is able to get the heart of the spiritual journey and makes the story of radical faith accessible to all. Writing about spirituality is never …
A short reflection from our Easter Morning gathering On Maundy Thursday, we had a service of shadows where we remembered the last moments of Jesus before his crucifixion. The conversations. The betrayal. The love. And the last supper. Communion. Bread and wine. The Latin word for Communion is “Eucharist.” The “EU” part of the Eucharist …
Canada is at war. Again. As our leaders discuss why or why not (and where) we should be dropping bombs, I’d like to offer two different definitions of freedom that may help us sort through the rhetoric. Definition #1: Freedom is another word for having the power to kill our enemies. “It’s a form of …
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