Why do you call me good?
When I was a kid, I was often puzzled by the way Jesus responded to people in the Gospels. From callously telling someone to “let the dead bury their own dead,” to calling a Samaritan woman a “dog,” to saying…Read More→
Articles written by Ryan Dueck
How do we measure a human life?
I’ve had some version of the same conversation a number of times over the past few weeks (over the years, I’ve learned to pay attention to this phenomenon—it seems to be God’s preferred means of provoking me). The conversations have…Read More→
Sometimes you have to smile
It was nearly 7:00pm and I was staring down a long evening of back to back meetings (bible study, followed by a refugee information meeting) in the midst of a pretty frantic few weeks dominated by all manner of logistics…Read More→
Christians, Muslims and welcoming refugees to Canada
The relationship between Muslims and Christians have been in the news a lot lately, whether because of the Syrian refugee crisis, the attacks in Paris, San Bernardino, or more recently, in the the theological controversy generated by a Wheaton College…Read More→
Fish wars in a drive-by world
Vancouver Island is not a place known for being a hotbed of some of the “culture wars” that take place south of the border. As far as I’ve been able to tell, it is a very post-Christian environment with a…Read More→
Following Jesus on His Nonviolent Path of Peace
The first Anabaptists died for their conviction that each and every human being was free to choose for themselves when it came to matters of faith. They realized that faith is not an extension of one’s politics, geography, race or…Read More→
Betting on love
We are bargain hunters, all of us. We make bargains with God, with reality or the cosmos or karma or whatever. We are convinced someone or something out there is keeping score, and that our lives are like a bet we are…Read More→
On doors and shores and sides of roads
I stared at the headline for a while in mute silence: “Austrian police say up to 50 migrants’ bodies found in truck.” It’s the kind of headline that you read and think, “whatever awful realities will unfold underneath those words,…Read More→