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Most people want the same thing from life. We want our lives to matter. We want to experience joy, purpose, beauty, love, and meaning. We want those moments when life feels rich and deep—when everything seems to be as it should be. Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor calls this experience "fullness". Fullness is that sense that life is at its best. It is the feeling of being connected to something good, true, beautiful, and worthwhile. It is more than happiness. It is more th

As part of our sermon series, Discipleship in a Secular Age, I'm writing a few blog posts between Sundays. The scholars I’m drawing on in this series, people like the philosopher Charles Taylor and Hartmut Rosa, have spent decades trying to understand the world we now live in. Their ideas are rich and genuinely helpful, but they come out of academic philosophy and sociology, and there's only so much you can unpack in a 25 minute sermon. These posts are a chance to slow down a

An introduction to our new sermon series You wake up. Your hand reaches for your phone. Doom scroll. You check your appointments and to-do lists. You see that you are on the roster to do morning tea at church on Sunday. You sigh and get up. You then move through the day in a kind of forward lean, always slightly behind, always reaching for the next thing. Then Sunday comes, and you sit down in church, and your head is still running. Most of us know that feeling. What we ra