A five-year-old boy and his father detained in Minneapolis and sent to a Texas ICE facility… An observer shot dead yesterday when he was already subdued by multiple ICE agents… 100 clergy of all faiths arrested for blocking a road while protesting the airlines that were flying people to ICE facilities…. It’s enough to makeContinue reading “Everybody Knows… and Still We Sing Hallelujah”
Category Archives: Sunday Reflections
Rags of Light
Think globally, act locally. That’s a phrase that has been used in a variety of settings and organizations since the late 60s. There is no consensus on just who coined it and where it started, but the general premise is the same. “Think globally, act locally” urges people to consider the well being of theContinue reading “Rags of Light”
The Courage to Stay in the Dance of Love
This little plaque was given to me at my 8th birthday party, and it’s one of the few things I took with me when I left home as a young teenager. Now, I don’t think anyone, even the most religious amongst us would consider giving something like this to a child now. And in retrospect, alongContinue reading “The Courage to Stay in the Dance of Love”
Broken Hallelujahs and Holy Light
How many of you were familiar with the line of the series: There’s a crack, a crack, in everything, that’s how the light gets in. It’s from a Leonard Cohen piece called Anthem. The universe cracked open billions of years ago to let the light out… Just as we heard in our reading from Genesis,Continue reading “Broken Hallelujahs and Holy Light”
Lost in Translation: Rethinking the Birth of Jesus
I think it was the first year I was at the Atlantic School of Theology, and we were deep into some scripture studies, exploring when a particular passage was written, who was it was written to, the political context in which it was written etc. And then of course, what difference does that particular storyContinue reading “Lost in Translation: Rethinking the Birth of Jesus”
Connected to Heaven and Earth
Highs and lows… Terror and joy… Heaven and earth… Advent asks us to open our hearts to all of it. The nativity story itself holds this tension: a birth surrounded by angels and shepherds, yet set within a world marked by empire, fear, and displacement. (Rev. Janice MacLean) Let’s listen to the words we areContinue reading “Connected to Heaven and Earth”
Light Is Returning
Anyone else feel like crawling into bed right after supper? The only thing that keeps me sane at this time of year is counting down the days till the days start getting longer. It’s less than three weeks before that happens! Surely we can last long? It’s no wonder ancient people of all sorts inContinue reading “Light Is Returning”
Born Again and Again
This is the 5th and final week in the Theological Banquet Series. I’ll recap in case you missed the earlier installments. This series is based on the book Undivided Love by Janet Gear, a United Church minister and theologian. She uses the metaphor of different courses at a banquet to describe different ways in whichContinue reading “Born Again and Again”
Unlearn and Learn
I thought I knew a fair bit about Indigenous Peoples in Canada. I lived in Labrador for three years and went to school with Indigenous students, although it was as a teenager. I was married to an Inuit man. I did my grad project at AST on Residential Schools. NOTHING however, prepared me for aContinue reading “Unlearn and Learn”
Presence
Surely, the presence of the Lord is in this place. As I pondered the very long reading this week, that line from the hymn we sang a few minutes ago, kept ringing through my head. Surely the presence of the Lord is in this place. I could remember singing it… I went searching in theContinue reading “Presence”
St. James United Church Dartmouth 