The Table

There’s a well-worn maxim that says that a camel is a horse built by committee. The idea is that too many voices can turn a good idea into something that, while functional, looks a little odd. This sort of thinking usually gets bandied about whenever someone wants to extol the idea of the individual genius. […]

Hey Tablers – this a bit of a longer email, but there is some important info at the end so make sure  you scroll all the way down… It’s morning, it’s winter, and I have to take our dog Meika out for her morning constitutional. She isn’t very big, so the fresh snow in our […]

Hey folks – we’re still at Frame for now, so join us at 10:30 a.m. at 318 Ross for what promises to be a most interesting exploration! Andrew Doerksen will be leading the charge. Here is his take on where we’ll be headed: Directly translated from Koine Greek, the word “philosophy” means “love of wisdom”. […]

I left home when I was still in high school. It wasn’t a dramatic as that may sound – I left by choice, the reason being that my small town high school was phasing out a number of programs that were very important to me and I wanted to go to school somewhere that offered […]

I grew up without television. It’s a wonder that I am aware of popular culture at all, given that I started with a deficit like that! But sometimes we went to visit my grandparents and they had a TV. TV and cookies-how do you top that?! One of the things we got to watch was […]

can remember when I found out what my names mean. At least, I found out what my first and last names mean. My first name, “Timothy”, means “honored or beloved of God”. I remember feeling both kind of good about that and a little unnerved, as though that sort of name might come with some […]

I got tired of calling the blurb “This Week At The Table”. It’s too easy to stop seeing the good in familiar things. It seems that we occasionally need to be bumped a little, knocked out of our groove and into a new space where we can reconsider the world around us. Sometimes that space […]

Hello People of The Table…and a Happy Thanksgiving to you all!  Yep…Thanksgiving already. I wonder sometimes if Thanksgiving is sort of like “mini-christmas” in our culture, in the sense that it comes laden with expectations and sentiment about family gatherings and warm fuzzy feelings and the death of a lot of turkeys. That can all […]

Sometimes you meet people that seem to have a depth to them , a kind of resonance with something so profoundly good, that it stirs up a feeling like awe. One of Tirian and Tayah gymnastics coaches strikes me in this way. This evening I had a conversation with this coach that, if it had […]

One of my favorite experiences at The Table is when I get feedback following a Sunday morning. It’s not the reassurance that someone out there was listening (although that can feel very pleasant); it’s the thoughtful and engaged nature of the feedback itself. This past week I heard from a few people – fantastic! One […]