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Of Men and of Bicycles
Cycling’s a funny thing: it gives you lots of time to just sit and think. And for me, finding myself cycling almost exclusively with men for the past year and a half, I suppose I have invariably given a lot of think time to masculinity. That’s fine by me: I really like men. Some of my closest friends are men, my two colleagues are men, I’m about as straight as you can get…
Wildfires and Meditation
So much Fruit!
Didn’t See It Coming: Reviewed
Stuck in the mud? Run!
Frustrated? There is still time to grow
There are destroyers in all of us.
Who’s kids are those?
Who in our pews would we leave unprotected in an expansion draft?
What do Wendel Berry and Dale Woods have in common?
Mindfulness, podcasting, and being careful about our habits
The 2018 Seminary
The Holy Spirit and Power-washing my driveway
Where I write and study these days
Running the Spiritual Path
Reflective running gear and God
Open Letter to my MP and Prime Minister about Student Grants
An open Letter to my MP
Dear Mr. MacGregor, I am a church minister in the Presbyterian Church in Canada and a constituent in your riding. I’m neither a politician nor a political scientist, I am a concerned citizen with at least some notion of the responsibilities of the office of Governor General and Prime Minister. My understanding must be wrong if a person representing the Supreme Governor of…
Donald Trump and the Crisis of faith (no not that faith)
Maybe 15 years ago I worked at the Chapters bookstore on Rideau Street in Ottawa. I was interested in politics, and one day I had the distinct pleasure of informing Joe Clark, the politician, that he needed his own Chapters discount card, the policy said he couldn’t use the one in his wife’s name.…