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Brock, We salute You.
On Saturday, 20th November, 2021 my dear friend Brock Clayards passed away peacefully at home in Victoria surrounded by his children, Megan, Sarah, and Ian. I would like to pay tribute to him and honor his life and memory. In October 1985 I arrived in Port Alberni from Cape Town to take up my new…
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Jesus and Democracy
No, this is not about politics. It is about a core value, democracy. A dictionary definition: “The form of government in which political control is exercised by all the people, either directly or through their elected representatives.” Democracy is a great idea if we are on the ‘winning/ruling’ side. When democracy manifests in a manner…
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Broken Lenses
“You cannot discover lands that are already inhabited.” Those words beat like a drum through a book I’ve recently read outlining the history of Christianity and its impact on the colonized world. Unsettling Truths is written by Mark Charles (Navajo and Dutch descent) and Soong-Chan Rah (South Korean/American). It tackles the complex and controversial spread…
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Remembering
We remember those who gave their lives in war. So many wars, so many nations, so many injustices, so many reasons, so many losses. Remembering the fallen in every nation on earth… and those for whom war is raging now. It seems that even though we remember, and will never forget, we also never learn.…
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“I won’t Hurt You.”
I wrote about this many years ago. And then the situation happened again, yesterday; as it has quite a few times over the years. Whenever it repeats I’m strangely touched by what transpires. It’s nothing complicated or extraordinary, but as is often the case, in simplicity one sometimes can catch a glimpse of truths easily…
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Boxed Up
Anything off limits? A significant group of those who believe in God – and Jesus as the greatest revelation of his existence, character, and message, prefer to keep him separate from the wider world. There is a division between politics and faith, them and us, sinners and saved, church and state, and a pile of…
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End Times!?
Not a day or week goes by when I don’t hear mention of someone suggesting, “We’re living in the End Times, Last Days.” The controversy and agro around Covid is a sign, is the implication. In Christian theology the end times is when the world as we know it ends and God will judge all…
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Covid Opinion
Hello, dear friends, jumping into the fire of the ongoing controversy again. I recently received a genuine note from a friend wondering how to discern and make sense of the various responses to Covid vaccination. They also attached a recent paper entitled, The Vaccine Death Report claiming that millions have died from vaccine injections. Someone…
Googling God 