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A Lifetime of Easters
It’s been a wet, windy, and a mostly grey Easter weekend on Vancouver Island with storms creating some measure of havoc, disrupting travel plans, uprooting trees, and causing power outages. We visited the famous Coombs Market on Saturday – famous for grass growing on the roof and goats grazing with an upper class dignity ‘up…
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Whips ‘n Blood – Good God it’s Friday
Reality TV is has nothing on Good Friday. Never mind that today in Ireland Guiness was considered to be more important and rugby the culturally dominant factor in a ruling for open pubs to facilitate a ‘very important game’ even though Good Friday is the most significant day in the Christian calender. But that’s not…
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It’s Easter – is it time for Organic Church?
What continues to disturb me…. is the church. How do we live with it and not grow cynical and tired… particularly in an information overload age? The institutional churches are massively top heavy with self-interest and professionals who don’t seem to be able to comprehend that God may not need them as much as they…
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So I’m not religious – I wish
Religion really upsets me…. It’s like offering bread to a thirsty soul, directions for the nearest beach to a prisoner in a cell, or inviting someone fighting for their life in intensive care to play golf. It’s not funny and yet the awkward little secret is that it’s the spirituality of choice to the vast…
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God’s Workshop….
We’re on our way home from the west coast of California heading inland from Crescent City, across the border into Oregon and connecting with the I-5 highway at Grant’s Pass. It’s raining and the road is winding, has been for a long time, when suddenly we come across this funky place on the side of…
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Don’t you hate the cheering?
Have you been watching the Winter Olympics? The downhill racing, the amazing skimming over moguls, the snowboarders flying and bouncing fast around corners or up and down half-pipes, speed skating, cross country. The abilities and skills of the athletes is something to be admired as are some of the stories of will and tenacity behind…
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Scans, screenings, and blood letting
The last two weeks has been an adventure with my body and medicine. I foolishly stuck my arm in the blood pressure machine at a drugstore and was shocked at my blood pressure reading. Thought I’d better check out my health and face all the dreaded tests to ensure I’ll be alive in a month.…
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Inspiring J K Rowling….
Here’s an inspiring commencement speech given by JK Rowling at Harvard in 2008…. entitled ‘The Benefits of Failure’…. She said….: “It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all. In which case, you fail by default.” Enjoy in three parts….…
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