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    • Sow Seeds Every Day

      By on November 29, 2021

      A friend of mine, and a great lover of neighbourhoods, passed away suddenly and tragically last month. Matthew Gillette was a young father, pastor, and...

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      This Moment

      By on November 22, 2021

      Christmas, for all the jingle bells, snow, and Walmart shopping that goes with it, can come with a kind of malaise. A stuck-ness, some might...

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      Lighting the Hearth fire

      By on November 8, 2021

      There is something important in the domestic rhythms of life. It is in our homes and in our neighbourhoods where we are formed, made, and...

    • Neighbourhood Manifesto

      By on November 1, 2021

      Creating an amazing city or neighbourhood is less about a silver bullet solution and more about rediscovering a lost art. A few years ago I...

    • Memento Mori this Halloween

      By on October 25, 2021

      I love Halloween: the kids, the candy, the costumes. It is the one day of the year where it seems that everybody can get out,...

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      What Are We Fighting For?

      By on October 18, 2021

      It is election season and we can see the temperature rising. Many comments sections in social media circles have been heated to exhaustion by those...

    • Swords Into Plowshares

      By on October 11, 2021

      Often the vision we have of gardeners are round-brimmed hats on kindly retirees with a packet of seeds in one hand and a geranium in...

    • “What is Wise Right Now?”

      By on October 4, 2021

      There is one question I am asking people I meet, “what is wise right now?” I am on the hunt for wisdom. Often people are...

    • The Halo Project

      By on September 27, 2021

      What is the value of a social or faith-based community group in our city? In a time when we measure most things by how profitable...

    • Be of Good Courage

      By on September 20, 2021

      My heart sank when I heard the emergency alert from the Alberta Government: another set of restrictions and more hard news. I flipped over to...