It was a beautiful afternoon, late in June–the kind of afternoon that is filled with the promise of summer and a heat only the July sun to come would offer. I sat with the sun on my face, listening to the casual conversation of my colleagues in our outdoor meeting when my phone rang.  I […]

Merry Christmas! Can you believe the day before one of our favourite days is finally here?! When I was your age, it used to feel like it took forever to get to Christmas Eve. We would fill our days with baking and visiting friends and family, trips to the mall, even a trip to the […]

Hope has a name. I’ve seen this phrase a lot lately. Not nearly as often as I have seen evidence of hopelessness in this season, I’m afraid. But in our clamouring for a different reality, a new normal, a next chapter, hope seems dim, faint, even fading.

There are a few words that have been used, overused, even abused and misused in this season, words like normal (and new normal), unprecedented, and return. I was ready to throw “pivot” in that pile, too, until I wrestled with it a little longer.

19 When Pharaoh’s horses with his chariots and horsemen went into the sea, the Lord brought the water of the sea back over them. But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground. 20 Then the prophetess Miriam, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women came out following her with tambourines and dancing.Exodus 15:19-20 The […]

The truth matters as we navigate tricky conversations, but so does good editing. Meaning, how we tell the truth matters differently for each group […]

I have thought a lot about what to say (if anything) in light of COVID-19 for a few hours now, and considered as many angles as my mind can contain: what is my pastoral response, my parental response, my response just as a person in community? What is true, as a Christ-follower, in these days, […]

I watched my newsfeed and inbox fill up with pretty Advent devotional possibilities. I have purchased them in the past and will likely do so again another year. But for whatever reason, I started listening through the Bible in the middle of November (a totally logical time to start, thank you), which landed me in […]

Dear self, You’ve been told for as long as you can remember (literally) that you’re too much. You’re not even sure what that means but you know it’s not kind. You know it means that in your fullest iteration, you are not accepted. A diluted, sanitized, smaller, quieter version of you is more desirable, even […]