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Mark Buchanan

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    • Dec 3, 2011
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    Con-vic-tion!

    I am seeing two broad and worrisome trends in the North American church today: a nitpicking, name-calling crankiness, and a...
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    Let Wisdom Speak
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    • Oct 29, 2011
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    Let Wisdom Speak

    The elders at the church where I pastor met this week for an EhD – an Elder Half Day. We hold these monthly, a 3-hour gathering for the...
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    The Stories We Tell Ourselves
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    • Oct 29, 2011
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    The Stories We Tell Ourselves

    On a recent trip to Ireland, my host gave me a guided tour of the Belfast murals. A whole section of that city, like Chemainus, the city...
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    What I did this weekend:
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    • Sep 10, 2011
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    What I did this weekend:

    Here's something I built this weekend. It's yet one more bonus of living on the West Coast: all the opportunities to co-create with God....
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    • Jul 29, 2011
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    The Evangelical Pope

    John Stott died this week. He was 90. Stott was sometimes called “the evangelical pope.” He was a man of wisdom, depth, clarity, warmth,...
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    Re-creating
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    • Jul 1, 2011
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    Re-creating

    Holidays prove a hunch: the world runs fine without us. Our absence is at most a minor glitch in the steady functioning of the...
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    A Different Parable of the Talents
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    • Jun 20, 2011
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    A Different Parable of the Talents

    I only managed to watch 2 playoff games, though not the devastating finale – I was at my daughter Sarah’s school awards ceremony, which...
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    Things & Their Discontents
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    • Jun 11, 2011
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    Things & Their Discontents

    We are wired for attachment, and not just to others: to things. I’m sure stone-age people felt a certain nakedness – a rush of dread, a...
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    • May 28, 2011
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    If Worship Were Hockey

    Now, at the worst possible moment, I dare to utter my heresy. I’m not a hockey fan. Indeed, let me commit the ultimate hockey sacrilege:...
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    • May 20, 2011
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    Grace Abounding

    I read recently a report detailing an investigation into RCMP misconduct. One finding of the investigation: the RCMP were guilty of a...
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    • May 13, 2011
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    Good Leaders

    Gary Nelson, former General Secretary for Canadian Baptist Ministries (our tribe) and current President of Tyndale University, told me...
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