When Gideon, that famous leader of Israel who constantly wondered whether he was correctly hearing God’s voice, first encountered the...

Every day I am invited to pay attention to stories. At the top of our social media feeds run the stories of our friends and...

As most of you probably know, Dee and I spent sixteen years in New Brunswick before coming back here to our home province and city. It’s...

Living With a View to the Resurrection In two previous posts I attempted to summarize the biblical witness about death and the hope we...

In the previous post, I began to share some reflections on what the Bible has to say about death and the hope that we have in Christ. I...

On each of the last two Saturdays I have attended funerals. One was for a family member, and I was in the position of leading the...

On the drive from Saint John to Fredericton you come to a point where Highway 7, which passes over the Trans-Canada Highway, loops down...

The past few weeks I’ve found myself listening over and over again to a song from Phoebe Bridgers’ haunting 2020 album Punisher called...

In one of the segments of the 1948 Disney anthology film Melody Time, the character of Johnny Appleseed sings a song as he gathers the...

Prayer can sometimes seem either overly simple or overly challenging. On the one hand, prayer can be as simple as thinking of a need and...

This is a post I wrote and posted on another platform in early 2022. Given that the New Year is often greeted by thoughts about making...

Reading books that support our Bible reading and our life of prayer and faithful discipleship can be a huge catalyst for growth in our...

On my shelves here at the church are a pair of matching books by the late Scottish theologian Thomas Torrance, whose work I quoted in...

A year ago I wondered whether Christmas as it was in the past would ever return. Two years of governments playing tag with an elusive...

I woke up early yesterday morning, earlier than usual. Through my living room window I saw a lot of darkness before my place on the couch...

Not long before we left New Brunswick, I was scanning through the book sale display at Fredericton Public Library (one of the places I...

In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, there is a consistent emphasis on what the fathers called the “prayer of the heart.” Taking as a...

The Psalms are the hefty centre for prayer in the Bible, but they are far from the only place we can turn for guidance in prayer....

What We Have in the Psalms One of the best resources we have for praying is found in our Bibles, in the book of Psalms. When Dietrich...

The philosopher Mortimer Adler defined great books as being those books that we can and should read again and again. “We need not read...