Tag: roland de vries
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Christ the King – Politics and Palliative Care
This morning we come to the end of the church year. Over the past twelve months we have celebrated God’s self-revelation in Advent and Christmas and Epiphany. We have recalled the suffering patience of Jesus in the season of Lent. We have walked through the darkness of Good Friday into the glory of Easter morning.…
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love — the way over the mountain
Paul speaks of love as the more excellent way – an image which includes within itself the idea of a mountain pass. So love is the more excellent way, the higher way, and the way over the mountain. With this in mind, my sermon a few weeks ago included images from a walk I took…
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a walk on the mountain
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thanksgiving letter
My letter to the congregation of Kensington, for this Thanksgiving. Click the image to the right for the letter.
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fall shots…
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beauty, fragility, dignity — a photo exhibit
As part of celebrations of the 35th anniversary of the New Hope Senior Citizen’s Centre – which locates itself within the building of Kensington Church – I have prepared a small photo exhibit. The exhibit combines images of members of the Centre with detail images from the stained glass windows of Kensington Church. The juxtaposing…
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Love, Caress, Difference (for valentine’s day?)
In my book Becoming Two in Love I have created brief, first-person “moments” that give expression to the account and ethics of sexual difference otherwise described somewhat abstractly. An ethics of sexual difference is one that affirms the fundamental mystery that the sexuate other is/represents. It is an ethics that entails a refusal of relations of appropriation…
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Night Running (a new poem) #NDG
NIGHT RUNNING Rhythmic stride and drumming feet as dark descends on west-end street; cicadas drone through August night, humid air stays fullest flight. Windows cranked to widest aperture, invite a breeze to ease the temperature; glistening brows and clammy skin beg hint of breath, reprieve to win. Floodlit bocce at Layton Park, murmured conversation against…
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fenced in and free…
If you are anything like me, you’ve got a love-hate relationship with the mirrors in your home. You wake up in the morning to get ready for the day, you go into the bathroom, look in the mirror and wonder to yourself did that zit really have to come out on the end of my…
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becoming missional
Had a good retreat with the elders of KCKF this past Saturday – reflecting on who we are and who we are called to be. A part of that discussion was around the attractional/missional debate and we had a good, open discussion about what it all means for us. I personally like the logic behind…
encrusted words 