Corinne Plett with news from the 3rd annual summer camp
Who knew “extreme croquet” could be so much fun! Yes, extreme croquet! This was just one of
the uniquely creative ideas campers came up with for the 3rd annual saint benedict’s table day camp. The camp ran August 9-13th, and what a fantastic week it was! Fourteen kids, aged 9-15, eagerly arrived each day and were met by our four kids. Some of the campers were from St. Ben’s, others came as a result of a connection to our family, and five of the campers were African immigrants who came through The King’s School transitional program, their participation in the week made possible due to donations.
More news and a link to a wild slideshow comes after the jump
or as long as she can remember, colour has caught the attention of Jodi McLaren. “I have always loved colour,” she commented. “I bought a badge the other day that said ‘Life is too short for beige.’” And since the age of eight Jodi has never not had some project on the go. For years, it was beadwork and needlework of one form or another; craft projects into which she would always insert a bit of her own personal touch, along with that passion for colour.
toward economic and ecological collapse. Yet while he is unflinching in his critique of consumerism and over-consumption, Burch is not without hope, as he challenges us to consider ways to gracefully step aside and strike out along an alternative pathway of personal, spiritual and cultural development.
includes his creative treatment of Christian ethics. In this podcast, Dr Christopher Holmes considers Bonhoeffer’s view of ethics; a view which challenges many of the assumptions around how we often think of what makes for an ethical life.
ensemble led by Gord Johnson, we unpacked this parable in a way that allowed people to hear anew some of its deeper, more challenging and ultimately liberating textures. We are grateful to have received both the author’s and the publisher’s permission to use this cycle, titled The Father Empties His Coffers, as the focus for this liturgy. While the recording presented here does not capture the congregational singing, it does at least give some sense of how the music and the poetry were woven in and through each other.
possible that it will be his series of children’s books, The Chronicles of Narnia, which will have the deepest impact and the longest staying power of all of his work.
Science Monitor are having to rethink their way of doing business, while north of the border both the CBC and Global are facing serious financial challenges. In this podcast Bramwell Ryan offers an analysis of the current situation, and an invitation to the church to begin to imagine how this shifting media reality might actually offer fresh opportunities for the shaping of the culture in which we live.
church community that bears the name of Benedict, one of the key founders of monastic life.