We live in a world increasingly organized around immediacy. Overnight delivery, instant communication, on-demand entertainment, and the expectation that almost everything should happen now. So what happens when the things that matter most cannot be hurried? Advent invites us to consider waiting differently—not as passive resignation, but as a spiritual discipline shaped by hope, humility,…
When did answering the phone become rude? When did putting your phone on the table become a breach of etiquette? Hard to know the right thing to do in a rapidly changing world. Perhaps the deeper question is“What does respect require of me here, with this person, in this moment?”
A swing has boundaries: a frame, chains, a seat, an arc. Yet within those limits, children discover height, speed, risk, imagination—and something that feels remarkably like flying. Something to learn about what makes freedom possible.
We live surrounded by warnings: climate change, war, political turmoil, artificial intelligence, economic uncertainty and the erosion of institutions we once trusted. But are these merely catastrophic times—or are they apocalyptic? As an eleven-year-old sitting in a Quonset hut beside Kootenay Lake, I was terrified by a preacher who assured us that the end of…
Grief does not simply change what we have lost; over time, it changes the ground on which we walk and, in doing so, changes who we become.