I was googling "Lenten Journey" the other day.  A long-stanidng tradition to use the 6 pre-spring, pre-Easter, weeks to ask who am I?  what are my roots for daily living?  how do I nourish my spirit, what makes me me?  How is my "me" connected to other "me"s?  Anyways, in my internet wandering I came across a great line:
Going to Church makes you a Christian about as much as sleeping in a garage makes you a car.

Got me thinking.  What does make a person Christian?  Does it matter? Is "Christia...
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Every once in a while we find ourselves reading John's gospel stories of Jesus. They are so very different from other version!  I wonder why that is? I wonder are we talking about the same person? John’s Gospel needs more investigating of its uniqueness as a Biblical resource for our faith.   John’s accounts of the Jesus story are very different and distinctive…just like some of your faith stories are different from the person next to you. 

In the beginning of the Bible, in the firs...

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   In Quebec, where I grew up, it was common to ask when meeting someone for the first time:  "how are you called?"  Somehow that feels seems more "real"  to me.  After all, a name is given by someone else; what I "call myself" expresses the essence of who I understand myself to be.  But it matters - just look at all the Baby Name books that are out there!
    It must make a differnce because I used my spouse's name for a while but shed it because it "didn't fit me".   I have friends who call ...
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