Feb 13, 2023 | Church & Culture
There’s a curious feature in religious conservatism that reaches to control what everyone, religious or not, does or thinks. We are all familiar with this phenomenon. Some of you have lived it. Take for instance the recent GRAMMY Awards show or Super Bowl...
Nov 3, 2022 | Church & Culture
Stats Canada data on religious affiliation is out with the 2021 census data and the numbers are confirming some trends regarding Christian affiliations. Here are the highlights as I see them, comparing some key denominations. This builds off of my my book Thrive....
Sep 16, 2022 | Church & Culture
One day, I was walking in a cool and artsy inner-city neighborhood and was handed a little flyer card not once, not twice, but thrice, in a span of a block by dudes from a church promoting their monthly ‘parachute into the neighborhood’ service. I knew who...Aug 30, 2022 | Leadership, On Faith
Originally posted in April 2017 and reposted. The Billy Graham rule is sexist. Full stop. And reveals deeply seated problems in evangelical formation surrounding patriarchy and the devaluing of women. The United States Vice-President Mike Pence, is in the middle of a...May 30, 2022 | Race & Diversity
As we wind down Asian Heritage Month (AAPI History Month in the USA), I am republishing a short thread on the model minority myth that I recently posted on Twitter. I have written on this subject before, noting the “terms and conditions” Asian folks need...
May 24, 2022 | Church & Culture
Reposted from February 20th, 2018. It’s been noted on social media: When children in Sandy Hook were massacred by semi-automatic fire, America had a choice to do something. And they did. They did nothing. The implications are grave. To do nothing after school...May 18, 2022 | Church & Culture
Ok, here goes. A post from a thread I recently wrote in light of recent violence (yet again) out in Buffalo. It pertains to replacement theory, or as I describe it here, white replacement theory. This idea is not fringe. It is an embedded cultural understanding most...
Jan 3, 2022 | Church & Culture
So a year ago Charlotte Donlon (you can find her episode on the Faith in a Fresh Vibe podcast here)asked me for my take on Kristin Dumez’s book, “Jesus on John Wayne”, as a Canadian who grew up in white evangelicalism. First off, Dumez’s book...
