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Hey folks – as the subject line suggests, this is our last Wednesday evening gathering at The Table before we go back to meeting on Sunday mornings. Jason Miles will be sharing some of his thoughts with us. This is his take on where he will be headed: “Hey friends! We just got back from […]

The more I take the exploration of my own faith seriously, the more I discover that it really is hard to genuinely re-consider what I believe. I find this to be the case especially when the beliefs are rooted in stories that have been told from the same perspective since I was a child. It […]

I was in Tim Horton’s last week (picking up bagels, for the record…), and I noticed an interesting form of advertisement. Right in front of the cashier, where the customer would stand to place their order and pay the bill, there was a small plastic placard with an ad for (I think) a Tim Horton’s […]

O.k – a little context for the subject line. I was searching online for one of my favorite Far Side cartoons, in which a cowboy with a large (telephone pole size large!) arrow through his torso is saying to his companion, “But what if it’s not just a flesh wound?”. And when you search for […]

What is it about fishing that tends to produce unlikely stories? It’s so common an occurrence that “fish story” has become shorthand for “you’re making that up”, or at the very least, “you’re exaggerating”. I sometimes wonder if this feature of the English language makes it hard for us to take some the Bible’s fish […]

Hello people of The Table. How many of you know what foolscap is? Don’t answer that out loud, because unless you are of a certain age or are a paper history geek (and that would be an extremely geeky kind of geek indeed!), it’s entirely possible that you don’t. A couple of years back, when […]

This past week, the countryside around our home has done the thing I count on it doing every spring – it has burst into a myriad of greens. My favorite spectrum…the varied, iridescent and verdant colors of new life! I’m a road hazard sometimes, just gawking at the greens… And I’ve found myself, when I’m […]

Ah yes…it finally feels like summer is an actual possibility, not a virtual one! And, in keeping with that possibility and our plans, we will NOT be meeting this Sunday morning, but this Wednesday evening, at 6:30 p.m. at 493 Notre Dame. I had a conversation this past week that reminded me again of how […]

Seeds are amazing! For most of my growing up years my parents kept a fairly large garden. They both seemed to find it invigorating to work in it and took real pleasure in the results. My memories are probably a bit skewed by my recollection of being required to help with that work, but my […]

Have you ever noticed how sometimes it seems like suddenly you are seeing the same name or thing or brand almost everywhere? I remember feeling that way about the American essayist and novelist Annie Dillard. Within a fairly short period of time, it seemed like I was encountering her name, and seeing her work quoted, […]