Theological ponderings from William Loewen

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  • Permission to feel pain

    Permission to feel pain

    It’s fun to watch a group of adults when children are playing nearby. The parents especially interesting, because while they are mindful of their children and any inherent risks involved in their play, for their own sanity they like to interact with other adults while they can. Of course, the civilized discourse is inevitably interrupted…

  • Arriving on Jet Plane

    Arriving on Jet Plane

    A significant event in the life our church happened this week, but it was even more significant for another group of people. The Syrian refugee family that we are sponsoring arrived in Canada, and I went with my family to meet them at the airport and sit down for supper with a small group of…

  • The Kingdom of Heaven is like an All-Star Game

    The Kingdom of Heaven is like an All-Star Game

    There was once an All-Star event where the players were lined up to be introduced to the fans. At the far end were two men, different in almost every way. One man, named Patrick, was a little under six feet tall, but highly skilled, highly paid, and high scoring, with few penalty minutes. The other…

  • The David Bowie Effect

    The David Bowie Effect

    This has been a rough week for celebrity deaths. Yesterday, Celine Dion’s husband and manager, René Angélil passed away. Before him well known film actor Alan Rickman also died. And before him stage actor Brian Bedford. Each of these men were famous enough to trend on twitter, at least in Canada, after their deaths, but…

  • Sensitive, not accurate

    Sensitive, not accurate

    I don’t know anyone who was actually offended by the red cups controversy at Starbucks. Maybe I just don’t have the right social media contacts, I don’t know. This isn’t the first time what we call the time around Christmas has stirred up a media frenzy, and it probably won’t be the last.  I’m not…

  • Advent 2, 2015 – The Path of Mercy

    Advent 2, 2015 – The Path of Mercy

    This is my sermon from Second Advent Sunday this year. The central text was Luke 1: 68-79.

  • Advent 1, 2015 – The Path of Justice

    Advent 1, 2015 – The Path of Justice

    This is my sermon from First Advent Sunday this year. The central texts were Jeremiah 33: 14-16 and Luke 24: 25-36.

  • Am I just lucky?

    Am I just lucky?

    This past Saturday afternoon, I sat with my wife, watching our three children run around a playground. We took a trip to celebrate ten years of marriage and we had spent much of our quiet time reflecting on how far we had come, what we had gone through together, and what we had accomplished. In…

  • Donald Trump’s 3 Favourite Bible verses

    Donald Trump’s 3 Favourite Bible verses

    As you can probably see just in the title of this post, and my spelling of the word ‘favourite’, I am Canadian, and so when I comment on American politics, I do so as an outsider, and that’s fine with me. Also, I feel that as a Christian, my primary allegiance is not to my…

  • Ruby’s Waitressing Dream

    Ruby’s Waitressing Dream

    My daughter came home from the last day of school with a package of books, crafts and papers. It was the culmination of projects, journals and art from the whole school year, as well as information about the summer and information about the next school year. It was fun to flip through the various pages…