Resistance is Worship – Lent Reflections

    Resistance is Worship – Lent Reflections

    Welcome to the first Sunday of Lent. How are you doing? In these mean streets where we’re all finding ways to survive and resist the onslaught of malformed systems starting with ableism/white supremacy. No small order. How are you doing? “Not good,” is a solid reply....
    2025 Lent is for Resistance

    2025 Lent is for Resistance

    Including one free resource to help plan your resistance. Welcome to Ash Wednesday. It wasn’t on purpose, but I wrote this entry on the 40th day following the presidential inauguration. Apropos to the Lent rituals that follow Christ’s 40-day desert...
    82 Years Ago Today, The Japanese Internment Began

    82 Years Ago Today, The Japanese Internment Began

    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...

    Holding that Hope Amidst Despair

    It’s only been three-ish weeks since the White House transitioned power. A destructive wake has produced a deluge of round-the-clock designed chaos that will take months to years to assess. Crafted from the pages of the conservative political playbook (regardless of...

    Setting Values – In Pursuit of a ‘Good Way’

    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...
    Decenter Preaching. The Exception and Not the Rule

    Decenter Preaching. The Exception and Not the Rule

    *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...
    2025 and Tethering Ourselves for Survival

    2025 and Tethering Ourselves for Survival

    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...
    Advent 2024…with various scenes of liberation

    Advent 2024…with various scenes of liberation

    Welcome to Advent 2024…with various scenes of liberation. This is the first entry in this year’s Advent series available exclusively through the newsletter. If you are not signed up visit the homepage or any signup form on the website. If you’re new...
    Election Aftermath from my weekly newsleter….

    Election Aftermath from my weekly newsleter….

    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...

    Calls to Action on Justice Fall 2024 Edition

    Quarterly ideas for reflecting and engaging in your own way. Every quarter my partner pens Calls to Action for her newsletter subscribers. Folks who sign up get suggestions for concrete ways one can respond to injustice around thee world. I have included it in my own...
    Rohadi’s Autumn Fiction Reading List 2024

    Rohadi’s Autumn Fiction Reading List 2024

    Welcome to October! It’s the unofficial offiical start of fall! After taking some summer weeks off it’s time to ease back into the newsletter rhythm. I thought I’d start by sharing a reading list. Let’s call it the Fall Reading List of Mostly...

    Vindication. Church Decline in the Next Ten Years

    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...

    A Reflection on Grief and Deconstructing Christianity

    There’s a notable theme when I hear stories from folks who find themselves on the outside of community looking in. (This was originally posted in the newsletter and reposted on the blog for public readership.) It wasn’t that long ago when I came to the...