Hello Tablers. Earlier this week I had another one of those conversations that reminded me of just how hard it can be to see past our pre-conceived or learned notions of who God is and where signs pointing to such a Being might be found. In my experience, it is hard work to learn a different […]
January 17, 2014
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This Week At The Table…
Just “down the road” from where I grew up in Hudson Bay, Saskatchewan is the little town of Nipawin. You can take the boy out of the town without taking the town out of the boy, so when I heard overheard a news item yesterday with the word “Nipawin” in it, I turned up the […]
January 10, 2014
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This week at the store…
I don’t remember the sequence of events, but I do remember the circumstances. Almost exactly one year ago, just after we had our house fire, I was lying in a bed that wasn’t our own, in a house that wasn’t our own, in what felt like a life that wasn’t my own, and I was […]
January 6, 2014
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Happy New Year!
This is the time of year when perfect strangers share a rather substantial “wish” with one another without thinking twice about it. We toss off “Happy New Year!” as though it meant roughly the same as “Hi”. If we stopped to think about it, we might recognize it as something more akin to a prayer, […]
December 29, 2013
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The Sound of Cultures Crashing…
Hello Tablers! Welcome to Christmastide.I don’t know if you have ever been either in or near a car crash, but having had both experiences one of the things that I have noted is that strange moment of silence that follows the racket of the collision itself. I sometimes feel like this week (the week after […]
December 21, 2013
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An Advent / Christmas Party At The Table!
Hello Tablers! We’re deep into Advent, within a whiff of Christmas, awash in the swirl of “seasonal events”, and I suppose that gathering with our community at The Table to mark this unique time of year could be just another thing on the calender. For those able to come this Sunday evening (gather at 5, […]
December 18, 2013
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This Week At the New and Improved Table…
In country terms, we live “just down the road” from the site of the Winnipeg Folk Festival. So it’s easy to wander over there and enjoy some of the great acts that come through every summer. Every once in while one of them becomes a new favorite That happened this past summer with Canadian folk-rock […]
December 18, 2013
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December 1, 2013
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. […]
December 18, 2013
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The Squirrel is SOMEWHERE ELSE!
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 […]
December 18, 2013
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Special Guests This Week – Socrates, Cornell West, and Andrew Doerksen!
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”. […]
January 26, 2014
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