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Tag: Mary

  • Representing Advent and Christmas

    I am by no means an artist. In fact it’s only in the past number of months that I’ve begun putting pencil to paper – that I’ve begun taking baby steps in trying to understand how to use shading, lines and different pencils (2B 4b HB 6H) in service of an idea or image. And…

  • holy laughter –

    Their laughter is not self-conscious. Their laughter is not artificial or forced. Their laughter is full and real. Their laughter comes from someplace deep inside. Their laughter flows as laughter does in our moments of real happiness, or those moments when we discover the wonderful incongruities of life, or when we find that the impossible…

  • learning extravagance

    My sermon from this past Sunday, on John 12:1-8 – Mary’s annointing of Jesus. ___________________ Growing up as a kid, one of my favourite novels was entitled Journey through the Night. It was a novel published in four volumes, written originally in Dutch by author Anne De Vries – we share a family name but…

  • A Twofold ‘Yes’

    A sermon preached yesterday – March 15th – in a continuing series on the Apostles’ Creed. ________________________________________   After a two week hiatus we come back today to the Apostles’ Creed – we continue our series of reflections on the faith we confess. Through this series we have been reminded that the Apostles’ Creed is…