My Testimony
My story is not an easy one. I grew up in an emotionally abusive home, always feeling like I wasn’t good enough or smart enough. I was...
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Finding Faith in My Darkest Hour
Finding and understanding my faith was a difficult journey for me. When I was young I was baptized and went to church every Sunday with my...
A Question of Faith
On April 11 2020, my beloved wife, Bridget, to whom I was married for 53 years, died in hospital from an untreatable form of cancer....
F.R.I.E.N.D.S.
Serving in the pastoral care ministry has been a privilege, a joy, and a blessing. During 27 years of pastoral care I have gained at least...
Forty Days of Music V
In 2013 I had an intense musical experience in a church basement in Ottawa. The JACK String Quartet performed the third string quartet by...
Forty Days of Music IV
We’re about halfway through Lent, an event marked in some churches with Laetare Sunday, the name taken from the entrance chant for...
40 Days of Music, Part III
The Christian liturgical year is superimposed on the calendar year, with some interesting and poetic consequences: we celebrate the birth...
40 Days of Music, Part II
Grief, pain, sorrow, loss… all emotions we associate with death. By reading the story of Jesus’ life in the gospel we learn,...
Forty Days of Lent (And Music)
It is difficult to imagine Christmas time without Christmas carols. But do you feel the same way about Lent? We often think about Lent as a...