I don’t remember, but I think I imagined sterile and calm conversations. I envisioned sharing the Gospel articulately, knowing right from wrong clearly, and being ready to act with wisdom and compassion. I pictured ease in making friends, mild difficulty in proclaiming Christ and few problems in time management.
And …
The first time I met my next door neighbours in my undergrad apartment, I was asking for a corkscrew for a particularly difficult bottle of wine. Embarrassed that we shared walls and yet had never spoken, my neighbours and I had a quick and awkward exchange. Through the years I …
Spring has sure been in the air for these last few weeks, so much that I am already daydreaming about foraging the plants bursting forth in my little yard.
One of my favourite writers of all time, Wendell Berry, defines the value in growing food on a household scale …
The following work is an example of flash literature implying fast, short and impromptu. When I see people on the street, I want my soul to be hospitable to their stories. This art piece was originally exhibited at New City’s City Beautiful Art Show in November as an oral story. You …
Fatherhood is hard, often lonely work. Any father who tells you otherwise is lying or just doesn’t get it.
My wife Miranda injured her ankle a couple of weeks ago as the result of a routine jaunt down the staircase with our eight-month-old in tow. She slipped, tumbled, and cried out for …
The ginger cookies slipped off the parchment paper and onto the coils at the bottom of the oven. Like any responsible adult, I did the only thing I could think of: attempt to rescue the cookies. As the parchment paper went up in flames, I hissed for my husband who …
I met with Ryan Geleynse about a week after he returned to Canada. He was joking with my son, complimenting the dry chicken breast I’d thrown together in his honour, and basking in the chaos that can be dinner at my table. Seeing him warmed me, like the return of …
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