Monday Message – May 17, 2022

Well, I’m actually a day late… it’s Tuesday. I switched my days off this week and spent a wonderful 24 hours in Debert with a group of colleagues around the theme: Come, Let Us Laugh. We had some great storytelling, an engaging keynote speaker, the Rev. Susan Sparks, who zoomed in from New York, anContinue reading “Monday Message – May 17, 2022”

A Woman’s Place

As a young woman and mother I was careful to raise my son to be both nurturing and adventurous. He got dolls as well as trucks. He wore the rainbow of colours, not just ‘boys’ colours. His father shared equally in household chores and childcare. This was the late seventies; the woman’s movement had inspiredContinue reading “A Woman’s Place”

Call, Conversion, Community

I sat in my study at home yesterday and pictured myself as a parishioner, not necessarily at Stairs, and pondered what I might need to hear on a Sunday morning. As a preacher, I am conscious that most weeks, there are a variety of needs and desires on a Sunday morning, depending on circumstances, personalityContinue reading “Call, Conversion, Community”