Making Peace with the Land

I have just started reading Making Peace with the Land: God’s Call to reconcile with creation by agriculturalist Fred Bahnson and theologian Norman Wirzba. This is the seventh book in the resources for Reconciliation series. All I can say at this point is that this is a very profound book, one that I think is [...]

Looking for Blessings – How the Body Heals Itself

This morning I am not feeling well. Since my bout with the flue 3 weeks ago I have been spiking the occasional evening temperature, and like most doctors I am reluctant to see a physician for myself. But today I have decided to bite the bullet and go. Well that doesn’t sound like a blessing [...]

What Is Prayer?

As many of you know I am working on a new book on prayer Return to Your Senses: Reimagining How We Pray. I talked about this in a recent post entitled Let God’s Love Soak Into Your Soul. Part of what I am grappling with in the book is the question what is prayer?. For some of us [...]

Forming Community, Hospitality & Food – A Resource List

The popularity of my posts over the last couple of days on community, hospitality and food made me realize how many people are looking for resources to help them form community in this way. As well as that today is the celebration of the Celtic saint St Brigid of Kildaire who was known for her [...]

Books I am Reading That I Want to Recommend

These last few weeks have been an orgy of reading for me. As I glanced over the books on my desk this morning it occurred to me that I rarely find such a rich assortment of books at one time. I thought that you might like to know what they are: One Thousand Gifts by [...]

The Art of Leading Spiritually – Discerning on Your Own

The following post is part of a series on Leading Spiritually. Check out the other posts in this series: The Art of Leading Spiritually – An Invitation to a Journey The Art of Leading Spiritually – Why Are We Leading? The Art of Leading Spiritually – Where Are We Heading? The Art of Leading Spiritually [...]

The Gospel of Matthew: God with Us.

The Gospel of Matthew: God with Us. A couple of months ago I was asked to review a chapter of Matt Woodley’s new commentary The Gospel of Matthew: God with Us. The task seemed simple until I started reading the book and found that I couldn’t put it down. My review of a chapter has [...]

Little Flowers Community

Today’s post is the last in a series by Jamie Arpin Ricci around the themes of his just published book The Cost of Community. I loved this book and would highly recommend it to you. Jamie is an urban missionary, pastor, church planter and writer living in Winnipeg’s inner city West End neighbourhood. He is planter & pastor of Little [...]

St Francis of Assis – by Jamie Arpin Ricci

Today’s post is the second in a series by Jamie Arpin Ricci around the themes of his just published book The Cost of Community. Jamie is an urban missionary, pastor, church planter and writer living in Winnipeg’s inner city West End neighbourhood. He is planter & pastor of Little Flowers Community, in the inner city of Winnipeg. Jamie is also forming [...]

The Sermon on the Mount – Jamie Arpin Ricci

Today’s post is the first in a series by Jamie Arpin Ricci around the themes of his just published book The Cost of Community. Jamie is an urban missionary, pastor, church planter and writer living in Winnipeg’s inner city West End neighbourhood. He is planter & pastor of Little Flowers Community, in the inner city of [...]