Leadership 3/3

Dec 3, 20113 min read

Con-vic-tion!

I am seeing two broad and worrisome trends in the North American church today: a nitpicking, name-calling crankiness, and a...

Oct 29, 20112 min read

Let Wisdom Speak

The elders at the church where I pastor met this week for an EhD – an Elder Half Day. We hold these monthly, a 3-hour gathering for the...

Oct 29, 20112 min read

The Stories We Tell Ourselves

On a recent trip to Ireland, my host gave me a guided tour of the Belfast murals. A whole section of that city, like Chemainus, the city...

Sep 10, 20111 min read

What I did this weekend:

Here's something I built this weekend. It's yet one more bonus of living on the West Coast: all the opportunities to co-create with God....

Jul 29, 20113 min read

The Evangelical Pope

John Stott died this week. He was 90. Stott was sometimes called “the evangelical pope.” He was a man of wisdom, depth, clarity, warmth,...

Jul 1, 20112 min read

Re-creating

Holidays prove a hunch: the world runs fine without us. Our absence is at most a minor glitch in the steady functioning of the...

Jun 20, 20112 min read

A Different Parable of the Talents

I only managed to watch 2 playoff games, though not the devastating finale – I was at my daughter Sarah’s school awards ceremony, which...

Jun 11, 20113 min read

Things & Their Discontents

We are wired for attachment, and not just to others: to things. I’m sure stone-age people felt a certain nakedness – a rush of dread, a...

May 28, 20112 min read

If Worship Were Hockey

Now, at the worst possible moment, I dare to utter my heresy. I’m not a hockey fan. Indeed, let me commit the ultimate hockey sacrilege:...

May 20, 20112 min read

Grace Abounding

I read recently a report detailing an investigation into RCMP misconduct. One finding of the investigation: the RCMP were guilty of a...

May 12, 20112 min read

Good Leaders

Gary Nelson, former General Secretary for Canadian Baptist Ministries (our tribe) and current President of Tyndale University, told me...