Tag: faith
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Bodies in a Digital World
My latest in the Christian Courier, also found here. ————— Who would have predicted that the vinyl LP would make such a comeback? But here we are. In 2018 you can get the latest musical release in 12-inch vinyl format, whether Ed Sheeran’s Divide or Kari Jobe’s The Garden. In our digital world, where a…
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Daycare Debate (reprised)
There is, we discovered, no dearth of lines available to sooth parents who are wracked by guilt and fear in sending their child off to be cared for by near-strangers.
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What are you not seeing?
My latest column, for the Christian Courier. _____________________ Up until a few years ago I had never seen them. I didn’t even know they were around, so didn’t know to look for them. But every Spring they are here. In fact, we are at peak season right now so there’s a good chance you will…
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Sola Scriptura: A Baptismal Defense
A talk presented to a conference hosted by the Presbyterian Committee on History and The Presbyterian College – as part of ongoing celebrations of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. Still in somewhat rough form, but clear enough to follow. _____________ Some days you feel like you’ve drawn the short straw. And let me confess…
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Self love? Meh. (Really?)
It’s safe to say that Christianity has often been indifferent toward self-love. In fact, when I imagine the typically response to the possibility of self-love, I would describe it like this: Self love? Meh. Our own Reformed and Presbyterian tradition has often been downright negative about self-love. Within our tradition great emphasis has been placed…
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habit-defying labour — thinking with the art of daisy tsai
Daisy Tsai describes her work, presently on display at Luz Gallery, Montreal, with these words: Painting is habit-defying labour… As our world dazzles, rushes, and burns, i peek-a-boo through forms and colours to contend for an alternative coherence, stillness verging on celebration and distress. The notion of habit is a powerful one, speaking as it…
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examination for life – a visit from Jesus
Image you know someone who has always dreamed of visiting the Great Wall of China. It probably wouldn’t come as a surprise to hear that someone would want to visit the Great Wall. Parts of that wall were built as long as eighteen hundred years ago by the first emperor of China – most of…
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what you see – it’s who you are
What we see says a whole lot about who we are. In fact: What we see makes us who we are. In our daily lives, every situation and every person and every landscape can be seen differently. And what you see in a given situation or what you see in a specific person or what…
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Law and Love – Don’t mess me ’round
This week I was listening to CBC radio one the afternoon, and the program was Shift with Tom Allen. Tom was at his witty and conversational best that afternoon. As you may know, Shift is the CBC program that makes the transition from classical music in the first part of the day to rock or…
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are you bored yet?
This piece was recently on exhibit at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, as part of the exhibit “From Van Gogh to Kandinsky.” I was struck by how thoroughly modern and contemporary this image feels – it could have been painted yesterday, but was in fact created in 1910 by Ernest Ludwig Kirchner. The curator…
encrusted words 