by Cam Roxburgh | Dec 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
Dear Friend of Forge, What gift are you asking for this Christmas? My kids have hounded me for a list, but I have already had an incredibly rich season in receiving 4 gifts from the Lord. Gift #1 was an amazing week away, being led to numbers of old friends. Reminded...
by Karen Wilk | Nov 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
This year Advent has a different feel for me, perhaps it does for you as well. Fears of another covid Christmas, the ongoing pain and grief of loss, the weight of so many things wrong in the world–climate change, racism, gender violence, military coups– to...
by Sara-May Cardy | Nov 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s early on a Sunday morning. While out for a walk to process, pray and clear my head, I came upon these trees in one of the parks near my home. I was struck by their frosty beauty and in an instant, filled with a sense of hope, excitement and calm. While at that...
by Karen Wilk | Oct 25, 2021 | Uncategorized
I invite you to join me in engaging art as a way of reflection and discernment. It may feel awkward for those who tend to use the logical left brain more often, but we all have creative right brains that need to be exercised too! Art is an invitation to do just that,...
by Merv Budd | Oct 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
I was reading an article put out by Christianity Today that was titled “Is Evangelicalism Due for a hundred-Year Schism?” In it the author writes this: …historian of American religion and politics… Paul Matzko, compared this divide to older divisions in American...
by Deb Judas | Sep 24, 2021 | Uncategorized
I just didn’t see this coming. Maybe others did. But not me. I knew our world was in trouble and something had to give. But I was thinking maybe something in the realm of epic natural disaster, war or terrorist attack would be the thing to take down the globe. Even...
