Knives Out
Today in much of the world pandemic-constrained New Year’s celebrations are winding down and folks are preparing to return to work on Monday, hoping...
The Legacy of September 11th
All of us who lived through September 11, 2001, remember precisely where we were and what we were doing when news of the terrorist...
Healthcare Should Be a Right Not a Reward
January 27 is the day we like to say our collie, Skye, earned her “Lassie card.” I was in the kitchen preparing our daughters’...
Maconomics
News of the McDonald’s sample budget first broke three weeks ago in the shadows of the Trayvon Martin decision. Initially, the budget received a...
Church Resources
Building Bridges Through Community Mapping
In an increasingly fragmented and rapidly changing world, churches and other service organizations are struggling to understand and connect with the communities they seek...
Ministry Garden Part 2: How to Establish and Maintain Church Ministries
My vernal detector is still set on “Virginia” and, despite four years in Canada, when the calendar flips to April, I am ready for...
Ministry Garden Handout
This handout is designed to accompany the post "Ministry Garden Part 1: Setting Ministry Priorities for Your Church". Churches evaluating what ministries to undertake,...
Ministry Garden Infographics: Establishing and Maintaining Your Ministry Garden
A useful tool for continuing your church's discussion of its Ministry Garden. This infographic is designed to accompany the post, "Ministry Garden Part 2:...
Sermon Remix
The Long Walk of Love: Remembering Nelson Mandela
The world in memorializing Nelson Mandela today in Johannesburg. As a personal tribute, I am posting the condensed text of a sermon I preached...
Go and Do Likewise
A version of this sermon was preached on Sunday, July 10, 2016, at Kingsway Baptist Church in Toronto. The Scripture readings are Amos 7.7-13 and Luke 10.25-37
Last week,...
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Beyond Boundaries
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Our Mothering Father
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I am the Vine (Illustrated with Street Art from Baltimore)
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Walking with the Good Shepherd
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Jesus' Life and Martin's Death illustrated
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Jesus People
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Waiting Room
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Worship in the Wilderness
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Book Reviews
A Review and a Reckoning Part 1
After listening to Clint Smith speak in an interview about his book How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery...
A Review and a Reckoning Part 2
While planning my daughters’ homeschool history lessons I stumbled across Wheatlands Plantation about an hour away from where we’ve been living in Tennessee. Not...
Daughters of Rizpah: Working Through Trauma
Buttry, Sharon A. and Daniel L. Buttry. Daughters of Rizpah: Nonviolence and the Transformation of Trauma. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2020.
Sharon and Dan Buttry...
World of Meaning
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Howard Thurman (April 10), an early twentieth century African-American theologian, poet, pastor, and activist...
Books for Reckoning with White Supremacy in the American Church
The Cross and the Lynching Tree, James H. Cone (2011)
The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, Jemar Tisby...
