This is my annual post encouraging readers to be intentional about ending the year, and starting the new one, as well as possible. Every year, I spend my morning quiet time in the days between Christmas and New Years treating the process of looking back at the year that was and ahead to the year … Continue reading Year-End Practices, Again (Again)!
Top 10 Albums of 2024
It’s become a tradition here on the blog for me to share my favourite reads of each year on New Year’s Day. And I’m definitely planning on doing that again this year. But 2024 has also been a remarkable year — possibly one of the most astounding on record — in the music industry. This … Continue reading Top 10 Albums of 2024
Signs of the End or Signs of the Times?: A Reflection on Mark 13.1-8
Whenever I read the Gospels, I’m always taken a bit aback by how much Apocalyptic — writing about a mysterious coming time when God would come in big ways to right the world’s wrongs — they contain. This is particularly true in years like this one, since our Sunday Gospels have been taken primarily from … Continue reading Signs of the End or Signs of the Times?: A Reflection on Mark 13.1-8
Change We Can Trust: A Reflection on Psalm 146
If there’s been one constant in the years I’ve been writing this blog it’s me starting a post with some variant of “These are anxious times.” While there has been a different edge to such anxieties in our post-2015 world — both in terms of the anxieties that have given strength to far-right sensibilities and … Continue reading Change We Can Trust: A Reflection on Psalm 146
This One’s for the Losers: A Reflection for All Saints Day 2024
There’s a popular conception out there, as prominent in the Church as outside of it, that Christianity is about “going to heaven when you die” — that, if you ‘believe in’ Jesus, you’re on the 'right team' and when things get sorted out, you’ll be sorted accordingly. These days, this black-and-white, team mentality has turned … Continue reading This One’s for the Losers: A Reflection for All Saints Day 2024
Matthew Root 