The Intersection of Faith and Culture
This morning, a parent of one of the students in the youth group I pastor came into my office with a host of complaints. While she and the rest of her family believed in the current path of the church, her daughter — a young adult — didn’t. The parent […]
This post is sponsored by Relate Church in Surrey, B.C. Imagine passersby recoiling from your presence as you walk down the street, hurling abuses as they avoid your shadow touching them. You’ve worked tirelessly for little or no pay, doing work declared illegal by the government, but you do it […]
In just a few short days hundreds of thousands of visitors will flood to the MetLife stadium in New Jersey for Super Bowl XLVIII. Many visitors will be coming to show their pride and cheer on their favourite team, but tragically, thousands more will be coming for something entirely different. What […]
Vegetarian, Paleo, gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free. There are countless different “ways” to eat. Food has gone beyond being a source of nourishment; now there are entire diet-specific subcultures that have lodged their way into the fibres of society. How we eat has become a tool to outline our very identities. Everyone […]
He sighed and shook his head. “I can send the obituary to the newspaper that way, but they’re not going to print it. It’s not their style.” We were nearing the end of a long discussion of funeral arrangements for my father. My mother and five siblings sat along the […]
Among the many things I could say about Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street is this: Scorsese sure does put the f—ing in filmmaking, in more ways than one. The movie is filmmaking par excellence. Bravura. Kinetic. An overwhelming experience. But it’s also overwhelmingly profane, breaking the record for […]
