by Edwin Drewlo | Sep 28, 2018 | Blog, Pastoral Issues, Personal, Transitional Pastoral Ministry, Travel
Last month I received an opportunity, once again, to fill a pastoral transition role for a church in Alberta. This one is with the Alliance Church in Innisfail, just south of Red Deer. Sometimes called, Intentional Interim, the whole idea of serving as a transition...
by Edwin Drewlo | Aug 31, 2018 | Blog, Explanations, Pastoral Issues
It was much darker than this picture suggests, but this was the scene looking east on our street at approximately 9:30 on the morning of Friday, August 10th of this year. The ordinarily summer morning sun was hidden by a thick cloud of smoke over the entire region...
by Edwin Drewlo | Aug 3, 2018 | Blog, Explanations, Pastoral Issues, Personal, Poetry, Spiritual Formation
Recently, while visiting our son, his wife and their children in Portland, the City of Roses, we had occasion to visit the beautiful Rose Garden there. If you’ve been to Portland, you probably know about this Garden near the center of the City. There is...
by Edwin Drewlo | Jul 13, 2018 | Blog, Explanations, Pastoral Issues, Poetry, Uncategorized
I know of no Psalm that is more summary of what the Psalms, the Bible, or life is all about than Psalm 1. It is appropriate that this Psalm and the Psalter, the hymnbook of the Hebrew people, stands more or less at the center of the whole Bible. Psalm 1, as an...
by Edwin Drewlo | Jul 5, 2018 | Blog, Explanations, Pastoral Issues, Uncategorized
I’m pleased to announce that a second printing of my book, Thoughtful Adaptations to Change: Authentic Christian Faith in Postmodern Times, has just been launched. In Canada, the new edition is available at the Friesen Press Web-site. The Book is also available...
by Edwin Drewlo | Jun 17, 2018 | Blog, Explanations, Pastoral Issues, Spiritual Formation, Uncategorized
1 Corinthians 13 ends with the words, And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love. Recently, I’ve been thinking about the relationship between these three virtues. Somehow, starting with the idea of hope, I landed on a...
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