Tag: identity
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Fashioning our Self
My latest in the Christian Courier, here. _____________ A good number of Canadians are sporting new outfits these January days. We are wearing our Christmas gifts – or, perhaps more likely, we are newly-attired from our own post-Christmas bargain shopping. There are a good many of us who got into a new pair of jeans…
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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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Transparency and Honesty — a little distance goes a long way
Questions of identity preoccupy us – much more than has ever been the case, historically speaking. This is so on account of the leisure time we are afforded, the levels of wealth we have attained, and the public personas we now necessarily create and craft via our social media profiles. In the contemporary world we…
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Losing Self? — Faith, Memory, Identity
We’ve all had that feeling of disorientation at some point. Perhaps you are staying in a hotel somewhere, or visiting family for a few days. You wake up in the middle of the night and don’t know where you are. The room is unfamiliar. You feel lost. You look for points of familiarity to locate…
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Nail Polish and Parenting – muddling through
At the best of times, raising kids is a complicated business. In any given situation, multiple factors are at play: our own personalities, our children’s personalities, wider family dynamics, faith commitments, cultural assumptions, and the list goes on… and on… Very often, all we can do as parents is make our best guess at what…
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who is thomas? it’s complicated #sermon #identity
Thomas is at the centre of things this morning. His name is there in the text – plainly in black and white. But who is this Thomas? Who is this one whose name appears so starkly in the text? Perhaps he is not so clearly defined as we might like him to be. Even if…
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a prayer of approach to God – on the theme of our searching for an identity
Our God, questions of identity confront us daily in our lives – daily we are confronted with the question of who we are and of who we are becoming. In some ways we may not even have the answer to these questions – we don’t fully know ourselves – we are shaped by emotions and…
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