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December 2011

December 16, 2011

Glory to God in the Highest

This past Sunday, I preached on the appearance of the angels to the shepherds, declaring...

December 01, 2011

Book Review: The Hidden Levels of the Mind by Douglas Taylor

At some point in college, I got fed up with theological charts and diagrams. Attending...

November 2011

November 29, 2011

Babies Love Justice

[Edit: Note that this blog has a new URL: www.patheos.com/blogs/goodandtruth/ (changed from www.patheos.com/community/goodandtruth/). RSS feed:...

November 17, 2011

How Helen Keller (And I) Would Help the World

There’s a scene in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe that I imagine most...

November 15, 2011

Sermon on Jacob’s Ladder

This past Sunday, I preached on the story of Jacob's Ladder. One thing I'd...

November 03, 2011

Profanation: The Unforgivable Sin?

In the comments on my previous post, Kendall pointed out that it’s important to be...

October 2011

October 30, 2011

The Lesser Evil

This week I preached on the topic of lesser and greater evils. I touched on...

October 28, 2011

A Sense of Calling

There's a discussion currently going on over at New Church Perspective on the issue of...

September 2011

September 28, 2011

The Fall of Man

There has been a fair amount of discussion lately in the Christian blogosphere of the...

September 14, 2011

Swedenborg’s Writings: Where Do I Start?

The teachings of the New Church are based on the Old and New Testaments, along...

September 13, 2011

Sermon: Lord, Teach Us to Pray

On Sunday, September 11 I preached on the topic of prayer at the Church of...

August 2011

August 15, 2011

Wisdom from Father Zosima

Crime and Punishment is my favourite novel. And yet somehow I've managed to never read...

August 14, 2011

Sermon: Naaman’s Leprosy

I preached this sermon on August 14, 2011, at the Dawson Creek Church of the...

August 07, 2011

A Pleasure that “Soothes, Favors, and Allures”

A few days ago I read a passage from Arcana Coelestia that keeps coming back...

July 2011

July 28, 2011

New Church Perspective Post on Homosexuality

At the beginning of July, New Church Perspective published an article I wrote on homosexuality,...

May 2011

May 08, 2011

Sermon: Honouring Father and Mother

I preached this sermon on May 8, 2011, at the Olivet New Church in Toronto....

April 2011

April 18, 2011

Book Review: “Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, and the American Story” by Howard Means

Howard Means’s new biography of John Chapman (aka Johnny Appleseed) has been garnering some publicity...

April 06, 2011

Links On Doubt

Yesterday I mentioned my article on doubt in this month's New Church Connection. The whole issue...

April 05, 2011

How The Lord Could Feel Absent from God

Last week New Church Connection magazine published an article that I wrote on doubt. In...

March 2011

March 04, 2011

Seeing Hell

(Edit: I should warn you this post contains some profanity) This evening I went to...

February 2011

February 25, 2011

Swedenblogian!

Swedenblogian is active again! After a long hiatus, Susan has started posting again, beginning yesterday...

February 11, 2011

Swedenborg the Evangelist?

It's fairly often that I hear people say, "Swedenborg never intended to start a church."...

February 04, 2011

What Will We Do In Heaven?

C. Michael Patton has a great series over at Parchment and Pen called "Questions I...

January 2011

January 28, 2011

What’s In A Name?

First of all, welcome to my blog, and welcome to the new site for those...

January 06, 2011

Eating Ashes

I experienced a lot of grief last year. A lot of people I care about...

January 05, 2011

Podcast on New Years’ Resolutions

I'm a guest on today's Chapman Cast podcast with Pearse Frazier and Malcolm Smith, on...

December 2010

December 05, 2010

Sermon: Nothing Will Be Impossible

This is a family talk I gave on December 5, 2010, at the Olivet New...

November 2010

November 28, 2010

Sermon: A Little Child Shall Lead Them

UPDATE: Sermon audio available here. I preached this sermon on November 28, 2010 at the...

November 23, 2010

Sermon: Preparing the Way of the Lord

I preached this sermon in Dawson Creek, BC on November 21, 2010. PREPARING THE WAY...

September 2010

September 27, 2010

Sermon: The Desolate Land Yields Fruit

This sermon was preached in Dawson Creek, BC, and Grande Prairie, Alberta, on Sunday September...