Social trends and the availability of digital media seem to be shifting us toward becoming spectators in life. But Jesus invites us to get out of our armchairs and really see our neighbours. 

The hope of the world is not that God gives up on human kind and fixes everything without us. The hope of the world is that God refuses to abandon us…and keeps working through ordinary people.

At the wedding in Cana, Jesus gives us a picture of how to be kind in a deeply human situation.

I wonder if the opening chapter of Genesis didn't tell us that Humanity was created in the image of God, we would have ever had the courage to look for it.

What do we do when a "Herod" seems to threaten the very fabric of our lives? We may find it helpful to remember how the story will end!

Slim pickings. Two Psalms, three poems and one sermon.

We often live our lives vicariously in a different tense, our bodies are in the present, but our minds are rehearsing a future or replaying a past, rarely staying in the moment where is within reach.

In some ways, putting Christmas away is more difficult that getting it out.

Mary believed what the angel had told her but no one else seemed to. She felt terribly alone until Elizabeth made room for her and created a space that was healing for both of them. 

When your desire to run is outmatched by your desire to stay, a beautiful kind of peace begins to appear. A peace that doesn't need outcomes to exist, it just needs the presence of God.