Oh, Jesus. Sometimes you say the darndest things. It’s another one of those tricky parables, a simple story on the surface, but with a deeper, more powerful question to wonder about. We’re still travelling with Jesus in the Gospel of Luke and he’s been teaching important lessons with these short,...
There’s a federal election in Canada very soon. Please be sure to vote, if you haven’t already. That’s all, just please vote. I won’t say more about that, but I will just add that I think the gospel story this week is rather timely. And I’ll certainly talk about that....
Author of “Radical Wholeness” and “New Self, New World”, Philip Shepherd’s work aims to transform our disconnected experience of self and world. Philip lives on a small island near Toronto, and offers private coaching, weekend workshops, retreats and keynote presentations, and we had the privilege of recording a conversation with...
“Come, you thankful people, come, raise the song of harvest-home! All is safely gathered in, safe before the storms begin.” It’s Thanksgiving this week, in this part of the world anyway, and these words by Henry Alford are probably going to be sung a lot. They’re the opening lines of...
Lately, we’ve been making our way through the Gospel of Luke. We’re mid-gospel, Jesus has turned towards Jerusalem (spoiler alert: I won’t tell you what happens there) and, on his way there with the disciples, there’s some pretty dense teaching with a lot of stories. Parables of the the Lost...
Have you ever asked yourself “who am I?”, “what are we doing here?” or “what does it mean to be a human?”. We talk a lot on this show about identity, connection, relationships, community and creating meaningful living. This question really ties all of those themes together, so there’s a...
I’ve been known to express some pretty progressive, even radical, ideas here. As always, I hope that I’ve also been clear that, in sharing my beliefs, I have no expectation that others will share them, nor that anyone would agree or understand them as “right” just because I said them....
We’ve been told it’s impossible to worship both God and money, and that it’s easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven, but we’ve also been told to give generously to the church. Maybe instead of focusing on...
This column should probably come with a Content Warning: minister writing about money. Relax, I won’t be asking for it, telling you to give it to the church or telling you it’s bad. Jesus never did any of those things so why would I. I also won’t be reminding you...
The pharisees and the Temple authorities were right, you know. Jesus hung out with the worst people. It’s true. In their eyes, at least. And those good ol’ pharisees, the keepers of Hebrew Law, even tried to help Jesus realize that. They’d try and help by pointing out that some...