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After dropping my child off at school yesterday morning, I stopped by a local coffee shop. While enjoying my coffee, I noticed a man sitting outside, reading his Bible. Curious, I approached him and struck up a conversation. He shared that he attends a local Baptist church and expressed frustration about a recent change—his church…
What? A priest read a book with many F words? My response is “yes, I really enjoy reading this book actually”. In this book, Mark said, “The desire for more positive experience is itself a negative experience. And, paradoxically, the acceptance of one’s negative experience is itself a positive experience”. Author Louise Hay wrote, “I…
Vancouver’s Chinatown, once a vibrant symbol of cultural resilience and immigrant perseverance, is now facing serious and painful challenges. What used to be a bustling neighborhood of family-run businesses, traditional food markets, and generational ties is increasingly seen as a place marked by shuttered shops, safety concerns, and visible social disorder. For many in the…
Darkness has always unsettled us. It disrupts clarity, confronts control, and forces us to face what we often avoid—grief, doubt, brokenness, and vulnerability. But in his chapter titled “Darkness” from Framing Faith, Matt Knisely offers a grace-filled invitation: to see the dark not as absence, but as a place where God is deeply present and…
After we take the Holy Communion, we pray: “Good and loving, we rejoice in the birth of Jesus, who came among the poor to bring the riches of your grace. As you have blessed us with your gifts, let them be a blessing for others. With the trees of the field, with all earth and…
In today’s world, it seems everyone is picking sides. Left, right, middle, far left, far right, liberal, conservative, progressive, traditionalist… the list goes on. We’ve become a society obsessed with labels, both political and religious, and it’s doing more harm than good. This tendency to categorize and divide isn’t new, but the digital age amplifies…
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