Grief by Fi Calder

Grief. A few months ago I was fortunate enough to hear Mike Stewart from St. Matts, give a talk on suffering. He asked us ‘have you got room in your theology for suffering?’ So here was the challenge; suffering and sadness is a part of life, but do we have a...

On the Cure for Self-Loathing by Michelle Elrick

When in a lowly state, a state of craving, melancholy and internal disappointment, there is a thing to do other than indulge. Follow Moses up the mountain. And in the first steps you will remember that Christ is the new Moses and the new mountain is not Sinai and the...

Uncle Eddie–A Tribute by Laurel Braun

My earliest memories of Eddie are from when I was a little girl. My family attended Central Heights MB Church, and from where we sat, each and every Sunday – In the first row of the balcony on the far right side – I had an ideal vantage from which to view the faithful...

WhatEVER! Healing the Wounded Cynic by John VanVloten

“A cynic is a person who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing” (Oscar Wilde)  “I have seen all of the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.” (Ecc. 1:14)  The cynic is a wounded idealist....

Song of Faith (United Church 2006)

We find God made known in Jesus of Nazareth, and so we sing of God the Christ, the Holy One embodied. We sing of Jesus,    a Jew,    born to a woman in poverty    in a time of social upheaval    and political oppression. He knew...