In a busy world - in the lead up to the frantic activity of Christmas. We encourage you to take a moment, some space for yourself, some...
Taking Time How often do we take time? Time to stop. Time to be. Do we view time as a gift, or a curse? Does it always seem that...
Advent is a season of waiting, of hopeful expectation. We mirror, in a very truncated way, the waiting of Mary as she expected the...
Pause For Thought I Sometimes when we look at the hurt and brokenness of the world we can feel overwhelmed - what can we do to change...
"All you need is love" sang the Beatles. They also sang, however, "I am the walrus," so I'd be wary of taking my philosophy from pop...
Love is often held up as an ideal emotional state. But love is not only an emotion - it is something we learn, something that we must...
An unhealthy dichomoty has been set up in Western Culture - commonly called 'The First World' - which has its philosopical roots in...
St John's has for many years prided itself on being an 'Inclusive Church' - welcoming, involving, engaging with those of the...
In the ancient stories of our faith a child is promised to elderly matriarch Sarah, and her partner Abraham - and she, being of...
As we travel through the Sundays of Advent we hear the stories of our roots of faith - stretching back to the founders of the Hebrew...
Words, even in this world of image and sound, continue to be important. Words are the way in which we make sense of the world, in...
Our words are important, the words we choose to use about one another and our experience frame the way in which we engage with the...
The essence of the Divine is love, but that love begets something else - creativity. In the myth of Creation found in the Biblical...
Reconciliation is a big, important, deal in Canada - it's a word used to describe the hope for rebuilding relationships between...
We often talk about reconciliation with a capital 'R" - the attempts to build a more positive relationship between indigenous and...
Today in churches around the world the readings will remind people of John the Baptist (also known as John the Baptizer, in case there...
Pause for thought VI Reconcile Yourself Reconciliation: between nations, within Christian community, between any human beings and,...
As is the case for many people like me who spent some 20 years as a professional church musician, music itself speaks prayerfully often...
There's a meme that does the rounds on Social Media regularly with the caption 'I found Jesus, he was behind the sofa all the time."...
When church members of some traditions talk of those outside the community of faith one phrase often used is 'the Lost' - believing...
