In the Lord’s Prayer every Sunday, we pray

  and forgive us our trespasses,

as we forgive those

who trespass against us;

Or in the newer version  

Forgive us our sins

as we forgive those

who sin against us.

Giving forgiveness as we ourselves have received it  

is a key mark of a Christian,  

and it’s so important  

that...

Creation in Christ Sunday (Genesis 2)

The season of creation is a relatively new annual ecumenical period of prayer and action for the environment.  

It occurs in September and ends on October 4, the feast of Saint Francis of Assisi,  

who is known for his care of creation and particularly animals and birds.

During this Season,...

You may have also noticed the blankets which are spread out in front of the chancel steps. For many years these quilts, comforters and other blankets have been used for the Kairos Blanket Exercise, a teaching time to help people understand the reality of Indigenous peoples in Canada. If you look closely, some of the blankets have still got bits...

Matthew 9:35-10:8

Last month, Pastor Carey, Deacon Scott and I attended a course at the Waterloo Seminary on Collaborative Leadership. It was a pilot course from the “By Living Waters Ministry School, “which will open its doors formally in January.  

“The school will train lay ministers for the Eastern Synod and support pastors in...

At the beginning of our worship services the pastor says the words:

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God,

and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

And the congregation, the assembly responds:

And also with you.

Often referred to as the Apostolic Greeting, or the simple title in our Guides: “Greeting”,

This is...

My first memory of thinking about the theme of neurodiversity, and autism in particular.

Was as a teen, watching the movie Rain Man,

which came out in 1988,

Starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman.(Nils Skudra review)

Now as a disclaimer: this movie contains dated, inaccurate portrayals of autistic people and we have come a long way in...

“Longing for New Life”: Matthew 28

Today we come to the end of our Lenten Series on the theme “unbound: longing for wholeness”,  

Where we’ve pondered whether “the opposite of being bound is being whole? “

We’ve come to realize that our world is filled with things that hold us captive. These things that bind us prevent us from living the...

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Do you ever long for courage?

Do you ever wish you had more courage for things that mattered?

Wholeness requires courage.

For us to be whole as individuals and as a community,we need to sometimes be brave.

Just sitting on our hands and remaining silent is not enough,

And we realize that part of ourselves is missing.

Sometimes you have to stand...

As a child,  

my mother would often read Bible stories to me before bedtime,  

and one of my favourite stories was the one about Joseph.

The story still sparks my imagination because it has all the elements of a powerful drama: jealousy, betrayal, false accusation, political intrigue, disaster, and reconciliation.  

Many of the...

It's probably not too surprising  

if I told you  

that I don’t follow professional Football.  

I also had never listened to any songs by Bad Bunny,the stage name of Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio.

But there I was last Sunday, with millions of others,  

catching the Super Bowl Half Time Show,

Probably the biggest annual...