Leadership

Con-vic-tion!

I am seeing two broad and worrisome trends in the North American church today: a nitpicking, name-calling crankiness, and a...

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...

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...

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....

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

Grace Abounding

I read recently a report detailing an investigation into RCMP misconduct. One finding of the investigation: the RCMP were guilty of a...

Good Leaders

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