BLOG

A few weeks ago, Patricia Paddey (my writing partner) and I, had the fun of attending a World Vision chapel service. We were interviewed briefly about Shifting Stats, our book published by World Vision. It was fun to see Patty (that doesn't ...

Last week I attended the Canadian Church Press conference, meeting with the Associated Church Press in downtown Toronto. Day one, I unintentionally broke into a parkade with my debit card, later spent 20 nervous, sweaty moments trying to find my van that ...

In the past week or two I have seen the fault in my listening. My husband can listen to people talk about the health ailments of their aunts in Australia. He can sit quietly and listen to a whole life story unspool ...

Today I was in the Faith Today offices to record our very first webinar. Very fun. The best part though was the thick, creamy envelope waiting for me there. At first, when I saw it was addressed to me and felt how ...

I have the wonderful opportunity again to join with Samaritan's Purse on an overseas trip that will enable me to tell important stories. This will be my third writing trip with them, first was to refugee camps in South Sudan, then an ...

No, no, no, silly. That is not me blowing bubbles leaning against the car in my cool plaid shirt. But it is me in spirit. I love the lightness and the joy reflected by my new website's cover image. It's fun. That ...

With the arrival on my front steps of a cardboard box of Shifting Stats Shaking the Church: 40 Canadian Churches Respond, a huge, sprawling project came to a close for me and for my friend and co-author Patricia Paddey. It was a marathon ...

Shifting Stats Shaking the Church: 40 Canadian Churches Respond (World Vision Canada, 2015) was a wonderful project written with my friend and co-author Patricia Paddey.

Last night I sat in a packed movie theatre in Oshawa watching The Drop Box. It is, of course, the inspiring story of Pastor Lee Jong-Rak who installs a dropbox in the outside wall of his Seoul home for unwanted babies. The ...

I am reading a book written for people who can't handle the real book which this book is about -- and I'm finding this book hard. The book about the book (the one I am actually reading) is called How (Not) To Be Secular: ...

So there I sat in a little cozy room at the Royal York hotel in downtown Toronto, chatting to Franklin Graham and his entourage about Eliza Doolittle. Yes, Eliza Doolittle. Part of my very sophisticated pre-interview warm up strategy involves small talk. ...

Read this fascinating interview I had the honour of doing with Andrew White, the Vicar of Baghdad. "My motto is simply, “Don’t take care, take risks.” It is risky business. Without taking risks, we can’t achieve anything. We just remain safe. There ...