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 […]
November 1, 2013
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Who are you Cheering For?
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 […]
October 25, 2013
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What's in a Name?
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 […]
October 18, 2013
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Strange Things Happen To Us While We Sleep…
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 […]
October 10, 2013
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Oct. 13 Gathering
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 […]
October 4, 2013
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October 6 Gathering
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 […]
September 26, 2013
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Sunday, Sept 29th
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 […]
September 20, 2013
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Sept 22nd gathering
Listening to the survivors of this past week‘s bus crash in Ottawa, I was reminded that there are some life experiences that fall into the category of “this changes everything”. If there was a continuum of these sorts of events, with the news (spoiler alert!) that Santa isn’t real at one end to waking up […]
September 13, 2013
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September 15
Hello Tablers. Last week one of the metaphors I used for exploring faith was that of a dance. The dance partners are the kind of things that are sometimes depicted as enemies; things like science and faith, or doubt and certainty. I don’t think I mentioned it on Sunday, but (to stay in the metaphor […]
September 6, 2013
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September 8 – Back to SUNDAYS!
Hello Tablers! First of all, adjust your schedules to SUNDAY, 10:30 a.m. Nope, I didn’t say “set your alarm for 10:30 a.m.”. We meet at 10:30, back in the A Gallery at Frame Arts Warehouse, 318 Ross. I’m looking forward to seeing the faces of the folks for whom Mondays were a non-starter (and the […]
December 18, 2013
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