Tag: kierkegaard
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Kierkegaard’s God, in the Pandemic
My column in the Christian Courier for November 2020.______________ Do you have an author you regularly return for insight and wisdom? A voice you’ve come to trust, with a gift for making sense of our lives, our world, and perhaps also for making sense of God? The Danish theologian and philosopher Søren Kierkegaard has become…
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Kierkegaard – God – Movement
The second of two reflections I offered on the prayers of Kierkegaard at the retreat of The Presbyterian College this year. Like everything, Kierkegaard looks “slant” at the idea of God’s immutability. — If there is anything that gives the impression of unchangeableness, it is perhaps the towering and intimidating mountains that populate the face…
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Kierkegaard – Love – Prayer
It had been too long since I had spent any concentrated time with the writings of Søren Kierkegaard – but this summer saw something of a revival in my love and attention toward his works. This revival was partly inspired by a family vacation to Denmark and Copenhagen, which included a visit (for me, at…
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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…
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loving #jianghomeshi — from the presbyterian record
A piece I wrote about Jian Ghomeshi a few weeks back, now published in The Presbyterian Record. Reflecting on the demands of love when the public narrative pushes in a very different direction… _______________ How do you love a guy whose sex life and personal life are marked by instances of abuse and violence toward women?…
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Loving Rob Ford
I confess that I am not a Torontonian. Rather, after more than fourteen years living in Montreal I’m almost at the point where I could safely call myself a Montréalais. So the challenge of loving Mayor Rob Ford isn’t my particular challenge. Rather, the newly elected Denis Coderre is my challenge – because no, I…
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my book is published #longroad
It has been a while in coming, but my book has been published – this is a revised version of my doctoral dissertation. Glad to see this day! Click the image for a link to its page on Amazon.
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I’ll stop pretending to be a Christian… #AttackOnChristendom
A piece I originally intended to submit to the Presbyterian Record, but then decided not to. For what it’s worth… ____________________ Quid pro quo. You do something for me and I’ll do something for you. It’s an eminently reasonable formula, and I’d like to propose just such an exchange. I’ll get to the details in…
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one another…
There’s a great phrase used in the New Testament – a phrase that speaks to the heart of our faith – to the heart of our identity. Here it is: One another. One another. Now that you hear it, it’ll probably strike you as familiar. Love one another. Wash one another’s feet. …
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Letter to Jesus
A sermon preached at the induction of the Rev. Greg Davidson into pastoral ministry in the congregation of Briarwood Presbyterian Church. References to Kierkegaard are from his Practice in Christianity. ________________________________ An open letter to Jesus. February 8th, 2009 Dear Jesus, It’s me again – no doubt you’re more than familiar with…
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