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"What if, this Christmas, we let the hope that we’re all feeling in relation to a vaccine reach out even further..." Here's the link.

Here's the link to a CBC article I was interviewed for... (that ended up trending in Canada for a couple of days).

I love preaching creation-based texts. Often sermons end up becoming news. Here's the sermon, and here's the Calgary Herald article, and...

Here's a piece I wrote for the Calgary Herald on the topic of wearing face masks during a pandemic.

Here's an Easter weekend OPED I wrote for the Calgary Herald on the God-like work of frontline workers in a COVID19 world.

Here's an OPED I wrote for the Calgary Herald that tries to suss out some of what God might be saying to us in such a time as this. And...

Here's an OPED I wrote for the Calgary Herald (after they asked if I'd be willing to address the topic of cannabis use... representing...

7. An Immune System that Works - Two days ago I was standing in the pain-killer aisle of my local food store staring at an empty shelf...

On the past two Sundays I preached on the Parable of the Sower and on the Vine and the Branches. For both of these messages I relied...

A few days ago I wrote about the providential way God brought musician Dan Lee to our new church. As Dan's story was playing out God was...

Two years ago I preached at an Ambrose University chapel. The music that day was very well done. So much so, that after the service I...

I've never been good at trusting others. I'm guarded and fearful. I hold back and maintain control. In order to matter I perform. Way too...

This morning I was reading the story of Joseph interpreting Pharaoh's dreams. Like all of Joseph's story it's saturated with providence....

Twenty years ago my grandfather gave me the bible he was given when he left the Netherlands to immigrate to Canada. This bible was given...

It looks like my 2-1/2 year vocational walkabout it about to end. I've just accepted a call to pastor a small RCA church in Calgary's...

This talk was given at Ambrose University and explores a few of the ways scientists image the empirical mind of God (and how we can know...

Here's a faith and science piece I wrote for the Calgary Herald.

"I walk in the world to love it." Mary Oliver, Long Life Reading Mary Oliver is good for my soul. She stops me. When that happens I am...

Over the past six weeks I've spoken to five people, on five separate occasions, about my recent bout of panic attacks. After hearing me...