Jan 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Corrupt scales versus Justice Filthy rags versus Perfection Broken bloody gate Who else would allow anyone to pass? Preciously accurate scale, Who else would absorb the cost, the weight? We might call you broken But you are brilliant, shining, shining and strong...
Dec 28, 2008 | Uncategorized
The Desert Fathers believed that the wilderness had been created as supremely valuable in the eyes of God precisely because it had no value to men. The wasteland was the land that could never be wasted by men because it offered them nothing. There was nothing to...
Dec 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for...
Dec 22, 2008 | Uncategorized
As I went to sit down this morning to do my Advent reading and have some “still time”, I had this amazing sense of this little space I’d made being like taking a few minutes to enter into the hallowed stable where the manger that held Jesus stood. I...
Dec 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
“Ye rich and ye poor…enter ye all into the joy of the Lord.” This year, as we approach the Feast of the Incarnation of God, we might reflect on the beloved Paschal Sermon of Saint John Chrysostom. In it, he invites all, those at every level of society and in...
Dec 13, 2008 | Uncategorized
Seeds Scattered and Sown: Studies in the History of Canadian Anglicanism Edited by Norman Knowles (Toronto: ABC Publishing, 2008) There has been a dearth of solid and sound books on the history of the Canadian Anglican way in the last 30-40 years. There have been...
