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t canada is co hosting canada and mexico are very much junior partners to the american show and that canada actually has a good team for the first time in my lifetime we have a decent chance of making it to the round of 16 which would be quite an achievement for canada read more jun 11 3 comments give praise one of the last chapters in martin shaw s liturgies of the wild is called on praise making in many ways the book is about how we become spiritually mature human beings and it s interesting to me where he situates the ability and willingness to give praise near the end in other words a spiritually mature person can praise in an unguarded way without always factoring in how the elevation of others reflects on them their own deficiencies their own lack all the things they wish they could be or do or experience genuine praise sets the self aside and focuses on the other it s not a calculation not a downpayment on an expected future return not a performance not something to be doled out cautiously it is in the end an expression of love read more jun 5 8 comments joy on the line ai seems to be on everyone s mind these days how could it not be the pope released his encyclical magnifica humanitas which has generated a bit of buzz not least because ai factors prominently in his reflections spoiler alert leo s not a fan but even before the pontiff weighed in on the matter it seems like every second headline i ve come across for a while now to be either singing ai s praises or bemoaning the many and varied ways it is hastening the end of all things it affects so many things from our kids job prospects to how we work to pretty much all the media we consume ai has created and is daily creating a word where we increasingly do not and cannot know what is real a world where trust in what we read see hear is being rapidly obliterated this concerns me to put it mildly read more may 28 2 comments precious gift i ve spent the last few days at a retreat centre in the foothills of the rocky mountains with a small group of fellow pastors the setting is magnificent and the weather has been surprisingly cooperative for springtime in alberta there s been plenty of unstructured time for walking in the forests and reading by the river or just sitting and contemplating the vast beauty of all that god has made it s been good for the soul read more may 21 3 comments mud people in his new book liturgies of the wild martin shaw writes of growing up with a preacher for a father and of a house that reverberated with whatever sermon he was currently coaxing into life i liked that phrase coaxing into life boy does it resonate most weeks for me shaw also talks about being fascinated by the opening pages of the big book his dad was always preaching about in particular this sentence the lord god formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a living being i liked it shaw says it was weird read more may 7 1 comment stand at the crossroads stand at the crossroads and look ask for the ancient paths ask where the good way is and walk in it and you will find rest for your souls jeremiah 6 16 a few days ago i attended the funeral of a young christian man who took his own life a few days from now i will attend the funeral of another young christian man who took his own life these sentences feel grotesque and offensive even as i type them these things should not be mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers and spouses and friends should not have to stagger to the front of church sanctuaries to read tear stained eulogies to bear witness to to lament the unfairness of to rage against to somehow attempt to drag bewildered meaning from these cruel endings read more apr 29 1 comment can we still love each other lately i ve been noticing and delighting in instances when couples are kind to each other in public spaces one reaches for the other s hand a bit of playful banter an arm on the shoulder an affirming word or expression of fondness a smile in the other s direction when they don t imagine anyone is looking a head on a shoulder little tokens of warmth and affection that probably wouldn t even have registered with an earlier version of me but which now seem to be extraordinary read more apr 23 50 comments desecrations a few days ago a story and photos surfaced about a few members of the israeli defense force who took a sledgehammer to a statue of jesus somewhere in southern lebanon the incident drew immediate and widespread condemnation from a wide range of ecclesial and political figures around the world read more apr 14 8 comments at just the right time that s it he looks at me with a mixture of incredulity and suspicion across a grungy table in a glorified storage closet at the jail the setting even given the context is unimpressive a broken vacuum cleaner a bunch of haphazard toilet paper rolls some dust covered supplies from the pandemic era a couple plastic chairs on the other side of the door the buzzing and clanging and crashing and shouting that is the near constant soundtrack out on the remand units read more apr 7 1 comment sectored to grace on saturday night i attended the great vigil of easter at an anglican church in our city it was a beautiful liturgy leading worshipers through the broad sweep of scripture from creation to new creation there were candles and holy water dante and herbert a baptism and the renewal of baptismal vows the gradual physical transformation of the sanctuary from the bleak deathly tones of good friday to the light and the life of resurrection and there was the celebration of the eucharist of course we remembered christ s death proclaimed his resurrection and strengthened our resolve to await his coming in glory read more mar 26 14 comments can a bot long for its maker it seems that scarcely a day goes by without encountering some troubling headline about the encroachment of ai into every corner of our lives today s entry was an article by a novelist named andrea bartz in the new york times called the shy girl fiasco shows why trust in writers is plummeting i knew nothing about shy girl and what little i learned from the article made me long to return to my state of unknowing apparently it is a horror novel that readers and journalists flagged as having prose that sounded like ai slop what doesn t these days at any rate what piqued my curiosity was the bit about the plummeting of trust in writers as one who writes for a living essays sermons blog posts i obviously have a skin in the game read more mar 19 6 comments anatomy of a hug it s difficult to avoid clicking on an article with a title like the six second hug at least it was for me perhaps i m not quite as immune to click bait as i flatter myself to imagine maybe it was that i had read the author before julian baggini and found him to be at least somewhat insightful perhaps i just needed a hug at any rate it was the subtitle that reeled me in from art to religion to sex instrumentalisation has drained away intrinsic value read more mar 3 1 comment hagar at a church retreat last weekend we spent some time talking about stories our own personal stories the stories that we have lived into or out of the broader stories in which we are all enmeshed and of course the stories of scripture which for many of us have shaped us in the deepest ways for better or for worse it s fascinating as someone who is often tasked with selecting the scriptures that we will hear and reflect on each sunday to get a window into how people in our church look at the bible the stories they are drawn to the stories that repel them the stories that inspire them the stories that confuse them the stories they struggle to know what to do with or how and when to tell them read more feb 24 6 comments haunted whispers in a ruined house he looks at me warily as he approaches the guard s station at the jail he s thirty something huge beard menacing tattoos 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