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Oct 244 min read

Fighting the Big Bad Wolf/Gossip Monster

What is gossip? Human beings are social creatures. We rely on living in community, and communion. We not only crave relationship with,...

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Sep 44 min read

Hebrew Testament or Christian Testament: You Can Only Have One Faith

I know it’s confusing and people want to believe that we should use all of the 66 books bound in the Bible to form our faith, but it...

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Aug 213 min read

Flip It Over

For as long as there have been Christian visions, art, images and metaphors, Heaven has been up in the sky among the clouds, and Hell has...

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Jul 313 min read

Happy Pride

Many communities and United Churches celebrate 2SLGBTQIA+ Pride during the month of June. On the first Wednesday in June, we had a Pride...

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Jul 194 min read

Acceleration

A few weeks ago I attended a lecture which I would describe as a bit of a continuing education update that I would call global sociology...

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Feb 142 min read

From Dust and Ashes You Came, to Dust and Ashes You Will Return

Cheerful message, isn't it? Well no, not at first glance it isn't. So - why do so many Christians celebrate Ash Wednesday six weeks...