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With only a few days before we should be practicing our self-discipline, what is tastiest food you can think of?

Drat. It was, wasn't it. This is what comes from hanging around with Lutherans and Evangelical Anglicans (I went to our ELCIC Lutheran church last week, and there was nothing in the bulletin, and I visited the local uber-evangelical Anglican church today and no-one mentioned it). So: no...

"Au Maigre" is the opposite of "au gras" -- the rich luxurious school of high-fat French cookery. "Au Maigre" meals are the ones you cook on days of abstinence or partial fasting. We had a lenten recipe thread before, but I'm not up to searching for it. Maybe if someone finds it they can post...

Last year, Candlemas was on a Saturday. That's always a treat, because it means everyone has a day off just as they do for Christmas, and we can have a whole-hearted celebration. Unfortunately last year I was leading an urgent constitutional reform of the public service club on whose board I...

I opened my door to let in some summer evening breeze, and the Hip came in with it. Apparently they're playing an outdoor concert down the hill and across the river from my home. And music carries well over water ... And I didn't even have to buy a ticket.

I find I don't have much time for posting these days, but even when I do I hesitate to post on this board, where the other posters are for the most part friends that I like to share my challenges and hopes with, as opposed to just tossing out casual ideas in discussion. The Clan is, as...

I think anyone who has a daughter in gymnastics, skating, jazz or modern dance, cheerleading or baton, has heard the old saw that "classical ballet training is the foundation for all the movement arts." But I recently was given an article to read that bemoaned the paucity of of movement arts...

Today's reading was the story of the two disciples who meet Jesus on the road to Emmaus and, stopping in Emmaus for dinner, realize their companion is Jesus when he breaks the bread. Here are our meditations from today's bible study: 1.When has the news, or events in your life shaken the...

Instead of regular worship today we had a cantata from a regional bible college called "the Space Between". In introducing the cantata, our pastor made the claim that "we live our lives in the space between Good Friday and Easter". Last Friday (Good Friday) while munching a hot-cross bun...

Temperature here fell to -12 overnight, and five inches of snow have fallen with more coming down constantly.;)

Who has the power to forgive sins: you (and other Christians), or the Pastor, or God? How does the forgiveness offered or proclaimed by each of these, differ? When Jesus said “As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”, what was he sending the disciples to do? What are you sent to do? Have...

I posted and IowaLutheran replied: and he was absolutely right, it would be off-topic -- for that thread. But I'm actually quite interested in hearing how he would re-word what I said to make it factually accurate. I've already noticed that what I hear from the average congregant...

One of the members of my Bible Study mentioned that she had never read the bible all the way through, despite starting on such a project several times. She was using the "start at Genesis and when you get to Revelation you're done" method -- which was, admittedly, the method I used the first...

I passed a Mennonite lady outside my office tower as I walked in to work this morning. Not a particularly unusual sight around our province, though not common in the downtown core. She was wearing a typical "plain" dress and her braided hair was neatly tucked up under her traditional black cap...

Decades ago my Religious Studies professor quoted Francis Schaeffer as having said "the church, to be of witness to the world, must lean against the wind". It's a powerful statement, all the moreso because I had just finished reading Schaeffer's "the God who is there" and found it very much LESS...

I know we're still in the middle of Lent, but if I don't stay on top of things I find decades fly by and the patch on the back-kitchen wall where I plastered over a hole when Anne was a toddler still isn't painted yet. So Pentecost is coming in "only" 75 days. And Pentecost is also...

I don't know if Anglicans outside of Canada keep "Mothering Sunday" as a Church observance or not: I know in England it is kept as Mother's Day, but I don't know whether that means it's garnered all the trappings of fancy Sunday Brunch and gifts and Hallmark cards that are associated with the...

Last time that I was visiting my god-daughter, I borrowed a couple of books from her church's library. One of them was "Barefoot in the Church, about the House Church movement of some forty or fifty years ago and about which I posted earlier. I am not quite finished it, as I don't have much...

I'll come back and edit this original post as other people add their ideas. I'd ask that you not debate in this thread, but just give your own opinions. And please keep it concrete: it's not about what children/parents/congregations think or feel, but what do we expect them to DO: Here's what...

I'm trying to compile a comprehensive recommended reading list for my teenage daughters. I've got the College board's "101 books to read before College" and our schoolboard's list, and several other lists. But they seem to be ... well, pompous rather than comprehensive. Really, how many people...