Category: Fusion

The beautiful city of Prague in the Czech Republic is full of many wonderful old treasures. Last week I had the privilege of walking some of its streets with a group of students from ADC. A little off the main tourist track, I took them… Read More »

I’m sitting in the Montreal airport, on my way home after three weeks on the road. I’ve been in Cuba for two and a half weeks with the CBM 2013 Praxis team (a scholarship program for Canadian Baptist seminary students) and then at an interfaith… Read More »

I firmly believe that Baptists in Atlantic Canada should be praying about how to start new congregations and birth fresh expressions of church in our region. There is a need for renewal in many of our struggling congregations and I wonder if some shouldn’t be… Read More »

When I was in High school my vice-principal was an AUBA Baptist minister, Dr. Willard Clayton. He gave me a verse one day that has continued to inhabit my soul: “being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry… Read More »

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,…”. People in ministry today could relate to this quote from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Good news stories of individuals growing in Christ are often met with negative elements that… Read More »

How many times have you thought you saw something, only to take a second look and realize that it wasn’t what you thought at all?  I remember when Twila and I were driving across Canada in the summer of ’97.  On one particular evening in… Read More »

The other night when I was at the Diner with my boys, the oldest pulls out a fistful of firecrackers, my first response was not a parental, “Where did you get those?” with the accompanying gasp – instead it was an awed, “How many of… Read More »

There are a variety of biblical metaphors that describe the influence that Christians are intended to have on the world around them. Jesus says that we are SALT and LIGHT (Matthew 5:13-16). He describes us as a LEAVENING AGENT (Matthew 13:33)  and Paul says that… Read More »

In every great crisis, the human heart demands a leader that incarnates its ideas, its emotions and its aims.  Till such a leader appears, everything is disorder, disaster and defeat. (From a New York Times editorial a week after the fall of Fort Sumter, triggering… Read More »

CABC is finally joining the world of blogging! This is just another way to engage our churches, pastors, leaders and communities in the missional conversation. The name of the blog is “fusi3on” but you’ll quickly notice a bit of a twist on the name incorporating… Read More »