During my recent 6 weeks of enforced rest, I decided to tackle a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle called “Oh Canada!” It was very challenging, to say the least. All that red, and so many tiny pictures of Canadian life and culture – it nearly did my head in! But I persisted...

My life is a set of concentric interruptions. Just when I am in the midst of something significant, where I am settling into the rhythm of things, something will pop up that takes my focus and attention away. I will park what I am doing and shift to the new urgency...

John Butler has always been a favourite of mine. I had an opportunity to hear him play again earlier this year: his fingers just as nimble and his lyrics just as cutting as ever. In the middle of one of his sets he paused to lament the state of the world. He named...

Bob; Rev Bob Warrick, a significant mentor of mine in my young adult days, many decades ago I confess, passed away recently.  He was an inspiration of Christian faith, faithfulness, discipleship, inclusion and encouragement to so many others. My connection with Bob...