Top Ten Mediation Tips from Micha Jazz At Peaceworks.

Tom and I have just returned from a 5 day whirlwind trip to the East Coast working with Mennonites at Laurelville Mennonite Center, Renewal and Creation Care Study Program. I am still a little jetlagged as we arrived home at 1 am so I was delighted to discover a link to this great article on [...]

Are We Deaf to Silence?

One of the things I like to do Sunday afternoon is reflect on the scriptures for the week.  One of the scriptures for this last Sunday was 1 Kings 19:18, the story of Elijah fleeing from Jezebel into the desert.  In the New Revised Standard Version it reads: Now there was a great wind, so [...]

Great Update From Tracy Howe Wispelwey at the The Restoration Project

I have just been listening to some of the beautiful songs from Tracy’s latest album Hold On To Love .  I love the prophetic and challenging lyrics that Tracy shares and thought that you might appreciate this update from her .  She is a voice well worth listening to if you have not yet discovered her [...]

Celebrate Life Not Death – How Should Christians Respond to Osama’s Death

The post below is adapted from this one that I read on New Wood blog.  It expressed so much of my sentiments & even quoted other posts I was preparing to post on.  You can read the original post here ————————————– This weekend has been for me a wonderful opportunity to celebrate life. As I [...]

Freedom, Redemption & Recycling in the Prison System – Is this the Kingdom of God?

This is a beautiful story of redemption that to me gives us a glimpse of the kingdom… even though it is outside the church and outside what of us would think of as God’s activity Sustainability is a logical goal at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, the Wilsonville prison that houses Oregon’s entire population of female [...]

Cage Fighting for Jesus

Here is an article that I was just sent a link to.  I find this very disturbing.  I believe in a Jesus whose goal is peace and reconciliation and I must confess that just does not jibe with this image.  What do you think? These pastors say the marriage of faith and fighting is intended [...]

Make Me A Channel of Your Peace – Sinead O’Connor

What a blessing it is when New Year’s Day abuts a weekend like this and I have not one day but several to think about the year that has past and what is to come.  As I look to 2010 I realize that there is much I hope to accomplish.  Sometimes I can become a [...]

Quietness and Rest – A Great Christmas Gift

Maybe it is just because of the busyness of the last few weeks, or because Tom & I have just booked accommodation for our annual Advent retreat, but I have been thinking a lot lately about the need for rest and quietness in our lives.  I think particularly as we move into what is generally [...]

Civil Disobedience as Spiritual Practice.

I don’t usually do blog posts on Saturday morning but because I still have several articles that I have not been able to get posted I thought that I would post this interview today which was sent to me by Jarrod McKenna from Perth Australia.  Tom met Jarrod McKenna the last time he was in [...]

Peace in the Garden

  My peace rose has just started to bloom.  It is one of my favourite roses and its fragrance one of the delights of my summer garden.  My appreciation of its beauty grew when I discovered that it was developed during World War II, by a family of French rose breeders.  The rose was actually [...]