The Table

This coming Monday is Part two of our peace series! 2 weeks ago we walked through a complicated history of Israel’s existence and how the conflicts in Israel reflect a deep rooted fundamentalist religious framework.  Fundamentalism is “I’m right and you’re wrong” type thinking and can be found in many conflicts throughout the world including […]

A few years back, the manufacturers of Oldsmobile cars realized they had a serious branding problem. When they polled people and asked them what the name “Oldsmobile” brought to mind, the answers were mostly about cars that were behemothian land yachts; bloated, block-long monstrosities with seats the size of couches that you could barely fit […]

Hey Folks..the following is part “weekly blurp” and part “information update”, so read the whole thing so that we can all be in the same place at the same time on Monday night. Yes…Monday night. I know there has been some discussion about a possible further adjustment of what evening we will gather, but we […]

Greetings to you all, people in transit! We have confirmed a gathering space for this coming Monday (that is correct, MONDAY) evening (that is correct, EVENING).  We will be meeting at the Frame Arts Warehouse, 318 1/2 Ross. Don’t worry to much about the “1/2” part – find 318 Ross and look for the familiar […]

Greetings to you all, people in transit! We have confirmed a gathering space for this coming Monday (that is correct, MONDAY) evening (that is correct, EVENING).  We will be meeting at the Frame Arts Warehouse, 318 1/2 Ross. Don’t worry to much about the “1/2” part – find 318 Ross and look for the familiar […]

Greetings, good people of The Table! This week our gathering will be doubly auspicious. It is, as the greeting card companies (and many others, including the hardware stores!) have been reminding us, Mothers Day. Aside from the obvious and self-centred reason to acknowledge and celebrate moms (where would we all be without them?!), there are […]

There is a part of my brain, which (if I could see it) I imagine would look like a roiling melange of song lyrics. From this lyric stew, there is one line that keeps floating to the surface. I believe it is from the song “Paper and Fire”.  The words are “I know there’s a […]

Things are going to be a bit different this week at The Table. Together we’re going to explore the idea and the process of creativity by having a conversation with some songwriters in our midst. Of course music is always a big part of our gatherings, but this week we’re going to do more than […]

For those of you that have been paying attention (and some of you have), this Sunday is Earth Day. In a fortuitous stroke that almost feels inspired, we will be returning to The Big Story this week. Fortuitous because the part of the story we are in suggests that God’s idea of a good time […]

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey. OUIDA, A Village Commune The Christian story and the God that Christendom follows have staked an awful lot on what may fairly be regarded as the least likely part of the whole narrative – a dead man coming back to life. […]