Jul 25, 2025 | Uncategorized
Photo by John Robinson.Young Afrikaners wave the then South African flag, some armed with guns, make the yearly pilgrimage to the Voortrekker Monument on signal hill overlooking the city of Pretoria. The Christian Nationalist government of the apartheid South Africa...
Jun 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
What if the parts of you that doubted, questioned, or even walked away weren’t signs of spiritual failure—but signs of something deeper trying to survive? This piece is born from the intersection of theology and therapy, of David Bentley Hart’s Tradition and...
May 31, 2025 | Uncategorized
It’s Hard to Watch the Birds By: Jonathan Tysick It’s hard to watch the birds with the people all around Chronically poor, colourfully rich, comfortably middle class Scraping, scrounging, trusting in this bloated, aching town Suits strut under skyscrapers casting...
May 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
At a soft pine table. (Isaiah 6) I sit. Mother is busy, At the stove, At the kitchen sink, Wiping bowls, Cleaning vegetables, Stirring, Creating, Smiling. Her presence moves around this space and Touches me As it touches everyone else....
Apr 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32) Luke Brunskill As I read the Prodigal Son parable, I can’t turn my heart away from a message of humanity’s journey from God the Father into our depravity and perversion right into the grave (Sheol). This journey doesn’t stop there; it...
Mar 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
Last week during our Open Table class (that happened to fall on Ash Wednesday), I had an epiphany. Discussing our reading of Paul during the Spring term, Douglas Campbell shared something E.P. Sanders, the eminent scholar, once said to him: anyone approaching these...
