One can’t help when reading and hearing this Gospel passage, but get a real sense of finding rest in God, experiencing healing and refreshment in Jesus.

I mean, there’s Jesus, inviting his disciples to a time of rest and renewal: “Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.” Jesus is giving them...

In the news this past week, Burmese pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was in Britain this past week, addressing both houses of Parliament. She was there to ask Britain, and others, to help the movement of change in her country toward democracy and to be the “watchdogs” as these changes begin to take shape and form.  After...

On a camping trip to Ayer’s Rock, in central Australia, Lindy Chamberlain, cried out that her baby was gone. She had gone back to the campfire with her husband, while her nine week old daughter, Azaria, was asleep in the tent. Hearing Azaria cry, she went to check on her, but instead saw a dingo, a wild dog, walking away from the tent...

Mark’s Gospel today portrays Jesus as this Multi-Tasking Miracle Wonder-Worker. In rapid succession, Jesus heals, and answers the deep longings and prayers of two different people – a young daughter of Jairus, a leader in the synagogue, and an older woman with a debilitating, long term disease.

But we wonder. What about me? What...

We modern, 21st century North Americans like logic and rational thinking. We like to analyse everything, to dissect, pull apart, and examine anything and everything.

In our scientific, fact-based, information-obsessed culture, we find it hard to deal with open-ended questions, or living with not knowing something, or encountering a real mystery...

What’s God really like, really? And how might we ever communicate with this deity?

I like the story of the Pastor, who had just finished a hospital visit. As he walked out of the sterile environment of the emergency room, and into the warmth of a late summer afternoon, he was suddenly, in a moment, intensely aware of everything around him.

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Diana Butler Bass, in her most recent book “Christianity after Religion: the End of Church and the Birth of a New Spiritual Awakening” is only one of many church leaders, theologians, social scientists and religious commentators over the past decades who’ve been articulating and provided data for the “seismic”...