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This is the final installment to a series I did on empire for Advent. I hope you find what you need. Today is Epiphany. The start of a ‘New Year’ according to the church calendar. Or if you’re part of church traditions that have no traditions, today is Tuesday. It’s...Justice
How the church casts aside disabled folks from community and ways to do better. Today’s post is an article I wrote for Christians for Social Action (CSA). You can read the edited version here. I have included the unedited version below. The words from the apostle...Books
Forty Meditations for Liberating Body and Spirit It’s here and I think you’re gonna love it. The cover for my next book coming spring 2026. Here’s the brief synopsis. I will be posting pre-order details soon but wanted to get this out to the world...Church & Culture
Fact. Christianity is a deeply political religion because Jesus was deeply political. Fact. What counts as ‘political’ changes over time and context. At some point you’ve probably heard someone say, “Keep politics out of the church.” Perhaps you’ve said it! I often...Justice
On February 24th, 1942, the Canadian government followed America’s lead days prior, by issuing Order-in-Council P.C. 1486. The order provided the legal means to expel all Japanese Canadians residing within one hundred sixty kilometers of the Pacific coast. Thus...Church & Culture
Season 11 of the Faith in a Fresh Vibe podcast is nearing completion! Friends, this season has taken almost a year to put together and it’s finally in post-production. This is my most ambitious project to date…. “Farewell Evangelicalism” is a...On Faith
As 2025 begins, with capitalism entering its late stages and governing parties across the globe (and specifically in North America) favouring right-wing populism, now is the moment to revisit what we stand for that in turn helps shape where we put our precious and...Church & Culture
*Originally posted in December 2015. A related post from 2018 on the subject of preaching as well.* For over 500 years the Sunday service has been dominated by preaching, the foundation for the vast majority of Western churches. Many churchgoers based both their faith...On Faith
Today is Epiphany. It marks Christ revealed to the Gentiles for the first time. The story is about the three wisemen. Often depicted at the nativity crèche, if the story of magi visitation is true, they met toddler Jesus just before the family escaped as refugees to...Church & Culture
This past week has been tumultuous esepcially for American folks. Heavy sighs all around. I remember 7 years ago I had a huge uptick of subscribers when I gave away a free anti-racism e-book (which you can still get for signing up to my newsletter). Oddly, the same...Church & Culture
If there was an image to describe me 15 years ago, just replace Jedi with evangelicalism…. If you’ve been here long enough then you know I used to write a lot on the whole missional church movement / church planting ‘industry’. It was my...Race & Reconciliation
Growing up I recall only one Asian personality represented anywhere across traditional media (this was before the internet). David Suzuki hosted a weekly TV show called, “The Nature of Things” (yay science!) shown on the public broadcaster here in Canada. (The show is...Justice
** I’ve decided to post this newsletter entry publicly. Audio version is now on my podcast as a bonus episode. Also, this is a good article to situate yourself from a more ‘inside the house’ perspective by Rabbi Dayna Rattenberg. ** As I pen this...Church & Culture
In my book When We Belong, I told the story of how my second church plant Cypher Church started. It was on the heels of closing my first church plant called (at the time) Converge. I saw the proverbial writing on the wall when only 5 people showed up to a Sunday...Church & Culture
*The following paragraph contains minor spoilers for the series finale of Ted Lasso. The season finale (series?) of Ted Lasso included the redemption arc of Nate, and the semi-redemption of Roy. Both are re-introduced to Ted Lasso’s “Diamond...