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There is no better time to reflect and re-tell the Christmas story than on Christmas Eve. The story doesn’t change, we might notice or highlight different aspects but it is the same story. I heard a pastor say that the story doesn’t change but the sermon must- I think we all agree. Tonight, we had…
I want to be an antiracist
I have tried to figure out what, if anything, to say in light of the significant moment we are currently witnessing. The epicentre of it is in America but that does not mean that Canada isn’t caught up in it- both in terms of culpability and result. The deaths murders of George Floyd, Brianna Taylor,…
Vulnerability and the Church
We want our pastors to be vulnerable but without any wounds.Ok, maybe wounds are allowed so long as they are healed wounds. We want healed wounds without any scars.Well, maybe scars are ok if those scars are covered and no longer show any weakness. We want weakness but no struggles.Then again, maybe we can deal…
Review: Introduction to Practical Theology
Pete Ward’s Introducing Practical Theology: Mission, Ministry, and the Life of the Church presents an overall framework that practical theology is “a kind of theology that takes seriously both practice and theology.”[1] But this is offered less as a definition but more as a “rule of thumb” that shapes his inquiry process. Ward allows this…
Book Reviews | Church | Culture | PoliticsMilitant Masculinity: A Review of Jesus and John Wayne.
My mom recently mentioned to me a book she had heard about and was starting to read. It was by Kristin Kobes Du Mez. I had not really heard of her except the briefest of snippets I had seen on Twitter that had mentioned the title of her book, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…
Review of The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr
In the preface to the 2006 edition of Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, Ligon Duncan has a most telling comment. Pagan ideas underlie evangelical egalitarianism, based, as it is, on ideas borrowed from cultural feminism. Egalitarianism must always lead to an eventual denial of the gospel. When the biblical distinctions of male and female are…