by Ryk Brown | Jan 29, 2022 | Progressive Faith
(Originally submitted for publication, Jan 27, 2022, under the Faith Matters series in the Flamborough Review community newspaper. That column has a word limit.) Increasingly, these days, I meet people who tell me that they don’t believe in God. They...
by Ryk Brown | Jan 22, 2022 | Productivity for People of Faith
How to Host a Successful Hybrid Congregational Meeting on Zoom and In-Person As congregations are moving into annual meeting season with covid restrictions still in place, many congregations have recently switched to hybrid worship services combining live, in-person...
by Ryk Brown | Aug 17, 2021 | Progressive Faith
Love wins in the end Yesterday, I posted about the Pride flag at our church being vandalized and stolen. Since then we’ve had two replacement flags donated within 24 hours, because the majority of people in Waterdown believe that love should win out over hate....
by Ryk Brown | Aug 16, 2021 | Progressive Faith
St. James Church Pride Flag Stolen Click here for the good news part 2 of the story You can do better, Waterdown. I know you can. Sometime over the weekend, the Pride flag in front of our church was ripped down with enough violence that shreds of it were left behind....
by Ryk Brown | Jul 21, 2021 | Motorcycling as a Spiritual Practice
Paul Hunter and I have been friends since we were 5 years old. Technically that’s 51 years ago, but close enough. His aunt and uncle lived next door to me when I was a child. Paul and his family began visiting from Scotland and then decided to move to Canada,...
