Brian J. Walsh's Blog, page 24

Pastoral Letter for Holy Week: Prayers, Tears, Funerals and Feasts

Sisters and brothers:

Sometimes things don’t turn out the way you hoped they would.

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Betrayed By A Kiss

“Judas, is it with a kiss that you betray the Son of Man?”

Surely this is one of the iconic questions of all time.

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Resurrection and Forgiveness: A Funeral Sermon for Adam Wood

Resurrection happens daily on a farm.

Resurrection is in the structure of creation.

Resurrection is what makes earth possible.

And Adam knew this.

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Jesus and the Economics of Empire

Economic injustice and violence.

An economics of inequity and murder.

They will always, always, always go together.

The rich get richer … and the poor? … they get deader.

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Rape, Healing, and the Author of Our Stories

Our brains generally try to explain exceptions through a model of deviance, thus the battered or raped woman is soon morphed from a victim to a (willing) deviant participant. If violence is ‘not supposed to happen’ or is ‘not supposed to happen to me,’ then it’s hard to narrate the violence credibly.

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Searching for God

On Tuesday morning I returned home.

Home to Wine Before Breakfast, the community in Toronto where I discovered that I could still be a Christian after all.

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A 20th Anniversary Reflection … in Gratitude

Kissing the world beautiful. That's campus ministry! Shoulder to shoulder – sometimes in the library together, sometimes on the streets of Toronto, sometimes in sharing our stories – and cheek to cheek – in the passing of the peace, in holding each other in joy and in sorrow – we’ve tried to embrace this world, this gift of creation, in all of its beauty.

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Is New Life Possible?

Jesus makes new life possible. Not life driven by fear, but abundant life grounded in the assurance that we are beloved children of God. Each and every one of us. Even on those days we're told we're not. And especially on those days we can't believe it's true.

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Why Church? (Pt. 3)

I didn't feel I had anything to contribute except to share my nagging question of why we do church in the first place. That's what this talk is about.

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Communities of Reconciliation

What I hope for in 2016 is that I might grow more into my ability to offer such space for reconciliation. What I hope for in 2016 is that my own St. Brigids Community Vancouver will continue to offer in Vancouver the profoundly needed ministry of reconciliation, especially for members of the LGBTQ+ community.

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