Welcome to this year’s best-of list! This past Lent, in the spirit of self-examination and repentance, our church community engaged a series on the enneagram. Around the same time, I wandered into a thrift store and found a 1984 book on the enneagram for $1 (or was it $2?). I’d never read it before, and … Continue reading Best of 2025 (Books, TV, Music)
Best of 2024 (Books, TV, Music)
I present to you - in the remaining hours of 2024 - this year's "Best of" list! Among some notable entries, I read the best book I have ever read on spiritual direction (see below). Admittedly, I have only been reading in this field for ten years, but reading something that so invigorated my love … Continue reading Best of 2024 (Books, TV, Music)
Advent: God’s Many Comings
The following is taken from the first pages of Advent: God's Many Comings - a free resource I created for Advent. We Christians are a sneaky bunch. Somewhere down the line, someone had the bright idea to call a season in the Church’s calendar “Advent.”We get “Advent” from “Adventus,” a Latin word which means “coming,” … Continue reading Advent: God’s Many Comings
School of Spiritual Direction (Fall 2022)
Year Two Winnipeg students (October, 2021) Overview If you enjoy meaningful conversation, listening to others (particularly relative to their relationship with God), and desire to journey with people well as they seek to deepen their experience of God, the School of Spiritual Direction (SSD) may be for you. The SSD is a two-year certification program … Continue reading School of Spiritual Direction (Fall 2022)
Becoming a Father (Round 2)
If we had to heave our first child into existence, our second floated toward us on a gentle stream. We had only been trying for four months when we found out we were pregnant with number two. When Jennifer took a pregnancy test this time around, there was hardly any waiting before it blinked positive. … Continue reading Becoming a Father (Round 2)
What is Lent?
Photo by Fancycrave on Unsplash Dear People of God: The first Christians observed with great devotion the days of our Lord’s passion and resurrection, and it became the custom of the Church to prepare for them by a season of penitence and fasting. This season of Lent provided a time in which converts to the … Continue reading What is Lent?
Prayer as Movement
When I lived in Israel, my favourite "holy site" - by far - was the Garden of Gethsemane. Christian tradition holds Gethsemane as the place where Jesus heaved in gruelling prayer (even sweating drops of blood, according to the gospel of Luke) prior to being betrayed and arrested. Suitably, the episode is often described as "the Agony." … Continue reading Prayer as Movement
Writing Is Prayer 