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What is Rosebud A number of years ago I started a New Years Resolution Plan called Rosebud. I heard about it on one of the travel podcasts that I follow. The process essentially looks like this:Step 1: List Three Roses-This is the stuff that I would consider the greatest strengths, successes or accomplishments of theContinue reading “Rosebud 2026: A Conversation About Resolutions In the New Year”

There’s an anonymous quote from Nadiyka’ Gerbish’s book A Ukrainian Christmas, a book I finished this Christmas morning as I sit waiting for the family to get up (along with 8 cups of coffee, two more books, three christmas films and this blog post) that goes, “Light never fights darkness, but overcomes it with itsContinue reading “Making Everyday as Sacred as Christmas: Learning from History, Tradition, and Ukrainian Christmas”

In the most recent episode of the Give and Take podcast, titled The Gospels as History, with Edward J. Watts (#315), host Scott Jones talks with Watts about his “Gospel maximalist” approach to the story of Jesus, (a discussion he qualifies as a holiday themed episode) Watts is coming at this as a historian who’sContinue reading “The Gospels as Words, The Gospels as Narrative: How the History of These Compositions Brings Us Closer to Jesus”

I don’t know what happened on the mountain but something deep has changed. Cause who I was is not who I’m becoming, I’m not the man who came. I found love like I never thought I would. I found love like I never thought I could. But it didn’t happen the way I was alwaysContinue reading “End of the Year Reflections: How I went From The Waters to the Brain and What it is Teaching Me About The Nature of the World”

The above confession made by Colgan’s main character (Mirren) comes in the first pages of chapter 1 of her book The Secret Christmas Library, and my immediate reaction was that I felt seen. This describes the way I live my life (and the reality of how books occupy ever space of my home, my car,Continue reading “End of the Year Reflections: Reclaiming The Power of a Story”

The first movie I ever saw on the big screen was Lady and the Tramp. What added to the allure of this family affair, which reflected a spontaneous outing with my parents, my brother, my aunt, uncle and cousins to a since closed downtown Winnipeg movie theater, is the fact that we were expressly toldContinue reading “Netflix/Warner Bros and Hamnet: Grieving the Loss of a Life Long Love Affair With the Movies and Being Reminded of Why it Matters”

I have found myself coming back to this book many times over the years, but always by way of portions or summaries or external dialgoues about her ideas and her thesis. That it felt due time to finally sit down and read it front to back was an afterthought to the stars finally aligning. ThisContinue reading “The Myths We Live By: Some Thoughts on Mary Midgley’s Timeless Treaties.”

1 The beginning of the good news (Gospel) of Jesus Christ. (Mark 1:1) The beginning. The beginning of what? The beginning of the Gospel, or the good news. So what is the good news. The good news isn’t simply something Jesus says, it is something Jesus does. Something Jesus accomplishes. It is the good news ofContinue reading “The Beginning of the Good News: Learning What It Means to Both Anticipate and Participate in the Gospel of Jesus Christ”

I have three books that I am using to shape my journey through Advent this season The Grand Miracle: Daily Reflections For the Season of Advent (a collection of writings from different authors interacting with the likes of George Macdonald, Lewis, Tolkien, Sayers, Davidman) The anticipated Christ: A Journey Through Advent and Christmas (Brian Zahnd)Continue reading “Some Reflections on the First Sunday of Advent”

In his book A Philosophy of Belonging, scholar James Greenaway explores the idea of home. He notes two ways of looking at the idea of home: 1. Home as an enclosure against the world, or an enclosure in which we retreat from the world 2. Home as a threshhold into the world, or a placeContinue reading “Advent as a Philosophy of Belonging: Home as The Liminal Space Between Heaven and Earth”