Image of the Week – Moon (maybe)
The fear of Halloween is the fear of all the things we could lose.
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A Lament for a Lack of Chocolate
We curse you fruit and vegetable lovers, you carriers of healthy snacks! How can you bring them before God?
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A Lament for the United Church of Canada
We worry about our denomination crumbling from within.
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A Lament from One Who Feels Far From God
I have no enemies but my own body. I am at war against a foe I cannot fight
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Worthy
You are precious, worthy to be loved.
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Image of the Week – Path
exhausted after a day of hard climbing, looking for a way forward.
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Image of the Week – Fire
The metaphor of fire suggests that the holy one heats and hones in an immersing love that transforms
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In the Field
It’s September. That means CCS staff are out visiting our students across the country for field placement orientations. This is Sparky, a fictional, totally made up CCS student preparing for diaconal ministry. Ted (somewhat less fictional CCS program staff) is visiting her in her home community of Oxter, Ontario. On a Saturday afternoon in September, Ted, Sparky,…
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Image of the Week – Pelican
Pelicans don’t really pierce their own chests with their beaks and feed their young with the blood, but the writers of medieval bestiaries thought they did.
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Image of the Week – Roots
What are the roots of your faith, and how does it feel when those roots are exposed by erosion?
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Music – Image – Sabbath
Ann Naylor’s sabbatical focused on the significance of image, music, and sabbath.
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Never Again
A litany in memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the continuing need for peace in our world.
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Tough Work, Strong Learning
Brenda Curtis exposes youth from Humboldt, SK, to the reality of life in Mexico.
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Active Verbs Should Be Used
Does writing exclusively in an active voice aid and abet a societal overemphasis on doing over being?
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Birdsong of the Holy One
Listen for the voice of the Holy One in your own faith journey as diligently and lovingly as birders attend to the melody of their flying friends.
