Into the Wilderness: Not so Lonely Anymore
As we adjust to this season of social distancing (or what my friend Emily Scott has suggested might be better named “loving distancing”), I find myself thinking more about the […]
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Into the Wilderness: Holding onto Love
Next the Devil took Jesus to the Holy City, set him on the parapet of the Temple and said, “If you are the Only Begotten, throw yourself down. Scripture has […]
Into the Wilderness: Lenten Reflections
The Christian season of Lent begins this week, and with it, the practice of tending more intentionally to our spiritual lives. The PiE community has been interested in exploring the […]
Jesus Camp: Taking it Personally
About a decade ago, I was just settling into life in Goshen, Indiana where I was serving as one of the campus pastors at Goshen College. One of my responsibilities […]
Earth Community: We aren’t alone
Last week I spent a couple of days at a beautiful farm in Grey County. There is a little cabin nestled in the woods at the edge of a pond […]
Raw Vulnerability and Advent
“O that you would tear open the heavens and come down….” – Isaiah 64:1 Last week, Jessica and I helped lead a mid-week Advent service at Erb St Mennonite Church […]
Encountering Desire
Our fundamental vocation is to be the person God created. This is both who you are, right now, and who you are becoming. We discover this through desire. […]
Altar Calls and a Culture of Consent
I was in grade eleven when I experienced my first, and last, Billy Graham revival. I recall hopping into a bus with my friend’s youth group and heading for the […]
Teachings from the Walk
It’s been just over a week now since the Pilgrimage for Indigenous Rights arrived in Ottawa. Including the first day of the walk, more than 200 different people joined in for […]
Reading the Bible as a Settler
As someone who preaches on occasion, I am simultaneously consoled and dismayed by how little I remember from sermons I have heard at church. But every so often, as the […]
