Humour
We all need to have more laughter in our lives. “When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.” – Thomas Szasz, “The Second Sin” “The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans are suffering from some form of mental illness. Think…
Continue readingTraining a New Generation of Planters
On July 13-15, 2009 Church Planting Canada (http://www.churchplantingcanada.ca/) presented a Church Planter Summit for church planters in Alberta and British Columbia. A summit (sometimes called a boot-camp) is training for those who are in the process of planting a church or are about to plant a church. Ideally it fits in soon after a planter…
Continue readingImmortality
“Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.” Cicero Roman author, orator, & politician 106 BC – 43 BC.
Continue readingCommunitas
I recently came upon this blog post at “The Forgotten Ways Blog.” You can read the whole post here: http://www.theforgottenways.org/blog/2008/12/07/the-bible-and-communitas/ The part that caught my attention was his further explanation of communitas and liminality, concepts he develops in the book The Forgotten Ways and also addresses in his blog. A short definition of communitas is…
Continue readingRoom for the Poor
Recently I had a great visit with Claudia Launhardt and her husband Nasser. They are doing some great work in the Downtown East Side (DTES) of Vancouver. In 2001 they purchased the Ivanhoe Hotel, a low income single room occupancy (SRO) building in the DTES. They are people of faith who have a great story…
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