God provides for our needs, feeding us with whatever nourishment we need and are most ready for. In the Stage of Simplicity, God feeds us with clear and easy answers. In Complexity and Perplexity, God gives us questions, paradoxes, mysteries that our old categories couldn’t handle. In the Stage of Harmony, we receive the rest in the experience […]
In this continuing series of notes from talks presented at the Refreshing Winds Conference at Canadian Mennonite University by keynote speaker Brian McLaren, we explore Stage 4 of a four-stage framework for understanding the spiritual life. McLaren introduced Stage 4 with a photograph of a female snapping turtle that had the plastic ring from […]
In this continuing series of notes from talks presented at the Refreshing Winds Conference at Canadian Mennonite University by keynote speaker Brian McLaren, we explore Stage 3 of a four-stage framework for understanding the spiritual life. McLaren begins this exploration of Stage 3 by examining the disillusionment that can develop as part of the […]
In this continuing series of notes from talks presented at the Refreshing Winds Conference at Canadian Mennonite University by keynote speaker Brian McLaren, we explore Stage 2 of a four-stage framework for understanding the spiritual life. McLaren believes that Christians move through different spaces or stages of experiencing and understanding the spiritual life. In his […]
Introduction I recently had an opportunity to attend the Refreshing Winds Conference at Canadian Mennonite University. The keynote speaker for the event was Brian McLaren. I had heard Brian McLaren speak at Lambeth Conference in August, 2008. I thought he had some interesting things to say then, so I was looking forward to hearing him […]
Thursday, July 27, 2017 Reprinted from the Winnipeg Free Press: When Robert Orr looks out at his Kingston Crescent neighbourhood, he feels as if he’s watching it die. The tree canopy where he’s lived since 1995 is withering before his eyes, just one casualty in the city’s battle against Dutch elm disease. And the situation […]
My name is Carol Huddlestone Ingimundson Craig (AKA) Carol Ingimundson. I started out at church as a young 5 year old attending Sunday School and Vacation Bible School. I was sent to church (not taken) by my mother. My learning started here, in these settings. I attended a United Church, encouraged by friends, where I went […]
ABOUT THE AUTHOR, THE REV. LAURA MARIE PIOTROWICZ “I’m a priest serving a 6-point parish in the Diocese of Brandon. I consider church to be a verb, and I’m passionate about PWRDF, eco-theology, and social justice. I love travel, reading, canoeing, camping, gardening and cooking, playing with my dogs, and drinking good coffee.” Ed. Note: […]
Two North End residents and members of the Shoestring Players are taking part in a classic production to raise money for Hospitality House Refugee Ministry. In May, the theatre group will be performing I Remember Mama, a play originally produced in 1944 by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein, at St. John’s Cathedral. The original production […]
It occurred to me as I started writing, that if stewardship is about the use of resources, we are not the only ones who are stewards; actually, I’d say God is the Master Steward, but in God’s case the resources aren’t so much material or environmental, rather a vast resource of faithful servants through whom […]
St. John's Anglican Cathedral 