We're so familiar with what we believe Christianity to be that we close ourselves to the truth, beauty and goodness of God.
Read MoreThe gospel according to old-time country great Tom T. Hall.
Read MoreScripture like today’s passage from Mark is trying to draw our attention to the hidden spiritual reality in ordinary events.
Read MorePart 3 in our series, "Why Church?" Each week looks at a movement in worship to answer this question. This week is "Kneel"--come to church to confess.
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An introduction to prayer and Ignatian Spirituality by Catherine Kelly, Retreat Director at St. Mark's Parish, UBC.
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Our culture's imagination is filled with apocalyptic images of doom and destruction. Apocalyptic literature, however, is intended to stoke hope in the emergence of a new thing.
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We tend to imagine God’s work in the world as a “shock-and-awe” power. The widow shows us more the “God of Small Things.”
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Jesus says the commandment to love God with everything you’ve got, and to love your neighbor as yourself is important than any other law or religious ordinance. It would be a relief if it weren’t actually impossible in practice.
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We tend to think of spirituality like fast food—we order something, we get it, and then we’re better people. The Jesus Way is different—it’s more slow food. A lifelong path of being healed from the inside out.
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One of the biggest obstacles people can have to church, faith, God, are the behavior of Christians and their portrayal of God.
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