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

Mark Buchanan
Dec 3, 20113 min read
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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...

Mark Buchanan
Oct 29, 20112 min read
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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...

Mark Buchanan
Oct 29, 20112 min read
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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....

Mark Buchanan
Sep 10, 20111 min read
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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,...

Mark Buchanan
Jul 29, 20113 min read
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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...

Mark Buchanan
Jul 1, 20112 min read
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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...

Mark Buchanan
Jun 20, 20112 min read
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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...

Mark Buchanan
Jun 11, 20113 min read
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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:...

Mark Buchanan
May 28, 20112 min read
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Grace Abounding
I read recently a report detailing an investigation into RCMP misconduct. One finding of the investigation: the RCMP were guilty of a...

Mark Buchanan
May 20, 20112 min read
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Good Leaders
Gary Nelson, former General Secretary for Canadian Baptist Ministries (our tribe) and current President of Tyndale University, told me...

Mark Buchanan
May 12, 20112 min read
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