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...
Feb 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
In a polemical world of anger and fear, of noisy fighting for self-preservation and domination, what does Jesus teach us through the Pericope Adulterae (PA), (the story of the woman caught in adultery) about the practical outworking of consent and participation in...
Jan 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
I remember growing up with the narrative of Chicken Little, and it seems to me to be the mainstream narrative adopted by both left and right. The sky is falling because of climate change! The sky is falling because authoritarians are in power! The sky is falling...
