Some thoughts on proclamation (and more specifically, preaching) from my journey across various Christian traditions which originally appeared at the AbbeyChurch blog One important and beautiful part of my sojourn through the various traditions of Christianity was with the Roman Catholic Church.  At the time, I can remember saying to a United Church of Canada…

In around the year 2000, a motion came forward from the Africa Region of the World Student Christian Federation (WSCF) to ‘eject all the homosexuals’ from the World’s Student Christian Movements. Wisely, instead of debating that motion, the international movement, knowing that many of the northern / western movements were LGBTQ2SIA+ affirming, asked each global…

A number of memes have been circulating claiming to be the words of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism (and one of the founders / forebears of my own church, The United Church of Canada). Though those are ok, they have a paraphrase of what Wesley said, rather than his actual words. Here are the…

I wrote this in September 2015 and it first appeared as a chapter in The Soul of the City: Mapping the Spiritual Geography of Eleven Canadian Cities – edited by Len Hjalmarson. As I write this, arguably the most iconic symbol of the City of Victoria, BC is not the famed Empress Hotel (with its…

This article first appeared in the January 16, 2016 Times-Colonist for their Spiritually Speaking column / blog. 2013 marks the twentieth anniversary of my first visit to Vancouver Island.  As a wide-eyed 19 from Ontario, I took in the sights and sounds of this amazing city based out of a lively hippie house in Fernwood. …