One in the Spirit of evangelism and service
People who are involved in service are typically practical, caring people; in other words, people of action. Of course the motivation for doing service is to follow Jesus and his teaching, to reach out to the weak, to the orphans and widows, and so on, according to Jeremiah 22:3 and James 1:27. People who have…
A Prayer for the Danforth
Oh God of Love, Maker of human neighbours and neighbourhoods, Hear our prayer from the Danforth, for the Danforth. Hear our cry of anguish and disorientation; Our sidewalk cafes are shattered and scattered; we are suddenly lost in our own home town. Calm us! Hear our cry of fear, we run, we hide, from…
Canadians invited to pray for end to famine
Canadian Foodgrains Bank is inviting Canadians to join Christians around the world in a Global Day of Prayer to End Famine on June 10. The call for this day of prayer comes from the All-Africa Council of Churches, the World Council of Churches and the World Evangelical Alliance, which invite Christians to “stand in…
Caught in the tension between belief and fear
Time is a significantly gracious yet controlling dynamic. It’s a dimension from which we cannot escape, but our experience of it varies depending on our context. We move from day to day, month to month, year to year, growing older and hopefully wiser, sometimes caught off guard by the realization that time doesn’t wait for…
‘Over and over again, day by day’
When Sarah Moesker began asking herself how she could deepen her faith, living in an Anglican convent for almost a year was the answer. Moesker, a student at Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) in Winnipeg, spent September 2016 to the end of this past July in the Companions on the Way program, during which she and…
A simple prayer
God, our Mother and our Father, Jesus Christ, Holy Son, Holy Spirit, our Comforter. We offer our gratitude, for you are with us. You are familiar without struggles and joys, and still you draw near to us. You are Holy. We offer you gratitude for your sustaining love, For the relationships made and being made, For our…
Thoughts on someone else’s thoughts
One of the best gifts my father has ever given me is an online subscription to The New York Times. He has always been an ardent fan of good news sources. The man has a ridiculously insatiable desire to learn. It was inevitable that such an appreciation would be passed on to his children as…
Prayer and a Paper Shredder
I just read through my “morning pages,” looking for nuggets to blog about and ripping out pages to shred. “Morning pages” come from a class I took last year. It focused on “Disciplines for the Peacebuilder” and maintaining balance, and emotional and spiritual health when involved in the intense work of peacebuilding. The instructions were…
A Prayer Week Reflection
To start off the school year, I decided to make the first week a personal prayer week. Although I usually prefer this kind of commitment together with others, like Will’s efforts with reading through the Bible, the crazy-ness of getting back to Harrisonburg, starting a new semester teaching, and trying to finish off data collection…
