It’s lunchtime & have a 1 month backlog of bits and pieces that I had been working on to post. I’m currently deep in caffeine due to a late night getting back from emerg with son #1. He had done what most young boys do on a regular basis – given himself a small injury [...]
We had a great time participating in the Laurier community league celebrations last Saturday, and this weekend it is St Tim’s turn to host something for our neighbours. So come out his weekend to the Fun Fair at 8420 – 145 St, just across from Laurier Park.
St Tim’s Anglican Church is hosting a [...]
For the past couple of days I’ve been busy with the local annual clergy conference, known affectionately as “clergy camp”. Our speaker this year is John Franke, who has thus far proven to be an engaging speaker. His area is missional theology. He comes from a Reformed/Presbyterian tradition (of which he is still very [...]
Fascinating article from Episcopal Life online, looking at the decline of the mainline “brand”
Not all the churches examined by the Pew survey are declining, of course. Most of us would not wish to belong to, or even visit, the kinds of churches that are growing; we dismiss them as evangelical, conservative, right-wing, even [...]
It’s a project in the Anglican Diocese of Edmonton, focusing on new ministry initiatives. There is a website up and running (in its infant stages) where Thomas Brauer has begun to post a few items. Head over and have a look.
I’ve had this thought tumbling around for some time. It’s still tumbling.
Once upon a time a culture collapsed. I, like many who have a fondness for dates, would suggest the deposition of the last Western Roman Emperor (476) as a nice symbolic event. The responses to this collapse were varied; one response was the [...]
3rd Annual Vital Church Planting Conference
I went to this last year & found it excellent:
Vital Church Planting 2009
We would like to invite you to the Third Annual Conference on Anglican Church Planting. It will take place at St. Paul’s Bloor Street in Toronto, from Tuesday February 17 until [...]
The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.”
Now that Jesus has been baptized, he seems all set to engage in his public ministry. It is essential to Jesus’ ministry that he begins not with preaching to the crowds, but my calling an individual. While [...]
3rd Annual Vital Church Planting Conference
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