with arms wide open
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

[joel mckerrow :: confession for the white part in me]

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"Joel McKerrow is an international touring performance poet, writer, educator, youth worker, thinker and activist based out of Mel...
Monday, July 30, 2012

just as we are

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Last time : Pastor Stickman, at the first Sunday service after accidently outing himself, was unsure of what to say. A parishioner gave t...

[the sacrament of friendship]

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What does true friendship look like? What does it offer the other person? What expectations are involved? Richard Beck has been reading A ...
Friday, July 27, 2012

standard reply

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This is the standard reply that many Christians use to apply to those who are—in their eyes—"sinners." I saw this just the o...
Monday, July 23, 2012

[the gospel of Rutba]

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Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove tells this amazing story of embracing one's enemy: During the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Leah and I ...
Friday, July 20, 2012

I'm gay unless...

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Can people be themselves around those of us who are Christians? Or do they feel they have to hide part of who they are, for fear of bein...
Monday, July 16, 2012

I'm Christian unless...

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Christians should be Christians — in other words, like Jesus — regardless of whom they are interacting with. Unfortunately, that's n...
Friday, July 13, 2012

[I'm sorry]

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"Sorry seems to be the hardest word" – a line from one of the songs that played on the radio when I was growing up – is true of c...
Monday, July 09, 2012

the Lord be with you

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Amazing that the pastor is still in the pulpit. In the typical elder-ruled or vestry-run church, he'd be long gone, dismissed via a secr...
Friday, July 06, 2012

televangelesus

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Jesus didn't care about his reputation. He acted Christ-like regardless of who was around him and regardless of what the religious ...
Monday, July 02, 2012

[vineyard memorial garden for lost women]

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Winnipeg. A city where nearly 50 missing women, children and transgender Winnipeg sex-trade workers had been murdered or gone missing ov...
Sunday, July 01, 2012

[understanding the cartoons on this blog]

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First of all, if all you are looking for is a good laugh , you've come to the wrong place. So sorry about that. This is a social comm...
Monday, June 25, 2012

defining enemy

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Turns out that one of the Bible verses about "enemies of God" was in the church lectionary, and pastor decided to preach abou...
Friday, June 22, 2012

[the last supper for everyone]

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A diverse collection of last supper images showing the width and breadth of God's love for everyone. Jesus is my homeboy by David La...
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Sunday, June 17, 2012

oops

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Some members of the congregation absorbed the pastor's previous messages well – too well – and now that he has inadvertantly outed hi...
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