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November is not quite an ending

November has always been a month of not yet in my household. We have three family birthdays to celebrate: Two of my sons, and remembering my mother, in that order. When the children were young, I was quite firm about one thing: Christmas decorating, music, and movies could wait until after the second boy’s birthday.…
Sunday Reflection – All Saints Day, November 1, 2026

. From 2023 Leaders must be servants Matthew 23 Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: 2 The Pharisees and the teachers of the Law are experts in the Law of Moses. 3 So obey everything they teach you, but don’t do as they do. After all, they say one thing and do…
Kids Korner: Big words, little actions (November 1st)

Read Matthew 23:1-12 with your family. Have you ever met someone who loves being the boss? Maybe they always want to go first, tell everyone what to do, or make sure everybody notices how important they are. Sometimes grown-ups do that too! In today’s Bible story, Jesus talks about religious leaders who know all the…
Halloween: More than Ghosts and Goblins

Every October, Halloween brings out the pumpkins, costumes, candy, and ghost stories. For many Christians, it’s simply a delightful occasion for children, families, and neighbourhoods to have some fun. Others regard it with suspicion, concerned about its associations with witches, spirits, and the supernatural. But Halloween has a much richer history than either the candy…
Kids Korner: Greatest Commandment (October 25th)

Read Matthew 22:34-46 with your family. Have you ever wondered what the most important rule in the whole world might be? Is it being honest? Sharing your toys? Listening to your parents? Being kind to someone who’s having a bad day? One day, someone asked Jesus a question just like that. There were hundreds of…
The Ministry of Showing Up

We live in a world that places enormous value on fixing things. Got a problem? Find a solution. Someone is hurting? Offer advice. Someone is grieving? Find something comforting to say. We are so uncomfortable with helplessness that we sometimes mistake our inability to make things better for an inability to do anything at all.…
Sunday Reflection – October 18, 2026

. From 2023 Deceiving questions Matthew 22 15 Then the Pharisees met together to find a way to trap Jesus in his words. 16 They sent their disciples, along with the supporters of Herod, to him. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that you are genuine and that you teach God’s way as it really is.…
Kids Korner: Tricky questions (October 18th)

Read Matthew 22:15-22 with your family. Have you ever had someone ask you a question that wasn’t really a question? Maybe someone says, “Who do you like better, me or your other friend?” Oh, that’s a tricky one! You don’t want to hurt anybody’s feelings, but you don’t want to lie, either. Sometimes people ask…
A Thousand Voices, One Mouth

When repetition masquerades as truth There’s something rather unsettling about discovering that the crowd you’ve been listening to may not actually exist. Recent claims about the disappearance of enormous numbers of Russian bots have generated considerable excitement online. Whether those claims are entirely accurate remains uncertain, but they’ve raised a fascinating question: how many of…
Remembering October 7th

Three years ago today, lives were shattered. Today, I remember those who were killed on October 7, 2023. I remember those who were taken hostage, those who survived, and those who still carry the wounds of that day. I remember, too, the families whose lives were divided into before and after – parents, children, partners, siblings and friends…