Dea. Richard’s meanderings & ruminations, reflections & challenges
On high ground easy answers & censure clear In community understanding dawns as silent words listening accompany I was 17, the wind was sweeping across the War Memorial in Ottawa and I
Facebook: Like & Share Credit: Richard Manley-Tannis This last weekend, I was pretty excited to hang out with a congregation here in Winnipeg (John Black Memorial United Church), which was celebrating 100 years of
Grief interrupts life Tears soak agendas We long for predictability yet loss overwhelms & all we have is lament Death and goodbyes are numbing experiences. Regardless of any sense of preparation, once
Every month I tweet #MicroPoetry! In 140 characters, they are part prayer, thought, reflection, challenge or something in-between. I look forward to sharing them with you and hope that they may lead to reflection, musing
Strength's illusionconceals weakness' fortitudeSuccess' miragemasks failure's courageHope subverts & meek shine What can I say? I’ve been empowered by ‘failure’ lately. I love the subversive whispering it does to a church facing a
“‘There was a real railway accident,’ said Aslan softly. ‘Your father and mother and all of you are – as you used to call it in the Shadowlands – dead. The term is over:
Stories … they’re funny things. This A Deacon’s Musing feature will share vignettes of voices that are (often) an amalgamation of experiences, contexts and people. They will frequently be monologues, which will be speaking
Every month I tweet #MicroPoetry! In 140 characters, they are part prayer, thought, reflection, challenge or something in-between. I look forward to sharing them with you and hope that they may lead to reflection, musing
Old Seeds, New Soil Credit: Richard Manley-Tannis This week's blog offers the fruition of the musing of two previous blogs: Seeds & The Word. Both of these blogs were used to
So, there I am, it’s 1997 and I’m not an atypical Gen-X’er. I distrust(ed) institutions, certainly lumped organised religion into that camp and I am (was) cynical about most public offices, politicians, celebrities, and certainly men and women who claimed to lead their flock.
