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  • Secure Leadership can be Flexible

    For the past couple of weeks the daily readings in the BRF ‘New Daylight’ notes have been written by my friend David runcorn, and they’ve been a real joy to read and ponder. This morning, though, I was struck by… Continue reading

  • Inherit the Earth

    This song was inspired by the hymn ‘When a Knight Won His Spurs’ by Jan Struther (lyrics here). I was reading the lyrics recently and reflecting that most of these knights would have been rich aristocrats, and that got me… Continue reading

  • It’s September, but December is Coming Fast

    On December 31, I will step down as rector of St. Margaret’s Anglican Church in Edmonton, and I will also retire from full time ministry in the Anglican Church of Canada. Both of those roles have been long term commitments… Continue reading

  • ‘God is Nice, and He Likes Me’

    I first read Adrian Plass’ book The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass aged 37¾ in 1987, and I loved it. The humour was wicked in the best sense of the word, and the implied criticism of a certain segment of… Continue reading

  • From Rejection to Affirmation: My Personal Journey

    Cross-posted to Inclusive Evangelicals. I came to faith in my early teens in a church celebrating a charismatic awakening. It was very exciting and life-giving. A few years later we moved to Canada and there, aged 17, I entered the… Continue reading

  • Sermon for June 25, 2023 on Matthew 10.24-39

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  • Evangelical and Inclusive

    Cross-posted to ‘Inclusive Evangelicals‘. This is a revised and expanded edition of a piece I wrote some years ago. Before this website went live, we had a conversation about what we should call it. Several alternatives were proposed and discussed;… Continue reading

  • What I Learned from Ted Lasso

    We’re in the UK right now, enjoying some time with family and friends after a four and a half year Covid break. We haven’t actually done a lot of TV watching, but last night we did manage to take in… Continue reading

  • Fire

    ‘We weren’t a week into May before 30,000 people had been evacuated because of dozens of fast-moving wildfires in Alberta. Structure losses were mounting, and politicians were trotting out words like “unprecedented.” ‘Unprecedented? Where were they in 2017, when British… Continue reading

  • Starting at the Beginning

    I’m delighted to announce that my new book about Christian basics, Starting at the Beginning, is now available for order on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle editions. Many people in today’s world have at best a ‘photo album’ impression… Continue reading