There is the story of two people, one saw the glass half-full, the other half-empty. One worried about having enough energy to take on that task or enough money to get the job done or enough respect to get the promotion. And so they said, “We can’t do that. We don’t have enough people or…
My response to the October issue of the United Church Observer feature article titled Breaking Bread in a Hungry World. Food its origin and its look, has become the “in” thing, a fad in Canada and the Western world. We post pictures of food on social media as if it were a prize toy or…
Last month, I attended the Canadian International Biblical Story Tellers’ Festival. The Keynote speaker Cindy Mayhew shared both biblical and personal stories and brought us hope that this hurting, violent world can be transformed. Over the day and a half. she gave us the following: Learn and tell Jesus’ stories of love, respect and forgiveness…
Years ago, I participated in a skit called “The Last Christian.” The premise was that God telephoned me and said I was the only human being left on earth to teach God’s message of love and forgiveness. In today’s world, it’s easy to believe we are the only ones left to do God’s work in…