Again, like last week, we see in today’s Gospel, Jesus out and about feeding the hungry, calming the anxious, and assuring his disciples to “not be afraid.”

We see a Jesus who is all about showing deep and abiding love, in tangible, visible actions. Sharing food. Calming storms on the sea. Repeating words of assurance, like...

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...

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”...