The Eagle & Child

In the Koran, Allah asks, “The heaven and the earth and all in between, thinkest thou I made them in jest?” It’s a good question….Pascal uses a nice term to describe the notion of the creator’s, once having called forth the universe, turning his back to it: Deus Absconditus. Is this what we think happened?…”God [...]

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how faint the whisper we hear of him! (Job 26:14, TNIV) * * * Here is bigger than you can imagine Now is forever (Bruce Cockburn) I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about pain and suffering and genocide and natural disasters and…God.  Without diminishing the pain and horror, and without denying the legitimacy of [...]

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Conversation I had with Luke and Madeline tonight: Luke: How big is God? Me: I don’t know. It’s hard to say. Madeline: He’s bigger than the universe. Marc: In a sense he is, I suppose. Luke: Who is God? Marc: Well, he’s the creator of the universe and the whole world. Madeline: And he created [...]

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This might just be the most remarkable thing I’ve read by Real Live Preacher: I had a vision the other day that came to me in the form of a daydream. I was sitting in the library staring off into space when suddenly I imagined myself in a huge room with a crowd of people. [...]

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I was thinking today about the tension Dixie and I live in these days.  We are planning a move to Manitoba and everything on that end is going swimmingly, without a hitch: we were accepted into the school; we found suitable housing right on campus; we already know people out there, so we won’t be [...]

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My favourite moment in Evan Almighty, in which God (Morgan Freeman) tells Evan Baxter (Steve Carrell in a reprise of his Bruce Almighty role) to build an ark.  Early on in the film, Evan is obsessed with his career, so his wife prays for the family to become closer.  Soon after God’s call to Evan, however, [...]

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From Brad Boydston, two things we could do: 1. Change the “I” to “we” in 90% of the music and spoken language. The individual’s worship must grow out of the collective sense of worship. It hardly ever seems to work the other way. 2. Sing and talk a lot more about God and a lot [...]

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I always find it a bit deceptive to quote from a book I’m not actually reading at the moment.  However, the other day I was leafing through some of my books and I read the preface to N.T. Wright’s The New Testament and the People of God.  He had a couple of interesting things to [...]

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