“O come, O come, Emmanuel, and ran­som cap­tive Israel, that mourns in lonely exile here, until the Son of God appears. Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel”. (O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, 12^th

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So often we hear our con­text described as post-​​​​modern, post-​​​​liberal, post-​​​​Christian, or the like. Despite the image of col­lapse, the lan­guage dis­plays a cer­tain dose of Cana­dian humil­ity and polite­ness: we don’t quite know yet what has really hap­pened, but … Read the full article

1 Peter 4.9 says sim­ply: “Be hos­pitable to one another … .” Hos­pi­tal­ity is a cru­cial Chris­t­ian prac­tice that man­i­fests the wel­come of God extended to human­ity through the death, res­ur­rec­tion and ascen­sion of his son, Jesus Christ. Through this … Read the full article

I want you to meet three moth­ers. Yoyo has two sons aged ten and four­teen.1 She works day and night and is exhausted most of the time.  I asked why she was work­ing so hard and sug­gested that she … Read the full article

In the Gospel of John, Jesus says that he had come to “fin­ish the work” the Father had sent him to do. He prays that his dis­ci­ples all “may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I … Read the full article