Wine Before Breakfast –“Gotta Serve Somebody” and Getting Wet
There have been a number of amazing musical moments in my life. Moments when the joy fills the room, even as the artist leads us into deep places of pain. Often enough, those moments happen on Tuesday...
View ArticleWine Before Breakfast – Broken Offerings, Refugees and “Offering Tuesday”
There is something powerfully ironic about Leonard Cohen’s song, “Anthem.” Anthems tend to be declarations of faith, of nationhood, of victory. But Cohen’s anthem borders on lament. Instead of evoking...
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Room at the Table: Urban Ministry from Justice to Imagination
Urban Remixed presents Room at the Table: Urban Ministry from Justice to Imagination with Jamie Howison st benedict’s table, Winnipeg Facilitated by Brian Walsh of U of T Monday, November 26 @ 7.00...
View ArticleWine Before Breakfast – Advent Waiting and “Groaning in Travail”
In what is perhaps the most remarkable turn of a phrase in the letters of Paul, the apostle tells us in Romans 8.22 that “the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now ….” This is a...
View ArticleWine Before Breakfast – Advent Ache, Advent Hope
My daughters think that I hate shopping. They are mostly right. Not all shopping, but certainly the kind of shopping that might take me into a mall. Indeed, my overwhelming bodily experience in a mall...
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Reconciliation in the City
Urban Remixed presents Reconciliation in the City with Mark Vander Vennen Executive Director, Shalem Mental Health Network Tuesday, February 12 @ 7.00 p.m. Leonard Hall Wycliffe College 5 Hoskin Ave.,...
View ArticleWine Before Breakfast – Therefore … party!
In what is undoubtedly his most oft-quoted statement, Alasdair MacIntyre once said, “I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do’ if I can answer the prior question, ‘Of what story or stories do I...
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Martyn Joseph @ Church of the Redeemer
The Church of the Redeemer with Urban Remixed present A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, & Martyn Joseph Sunday, February 24, 2013 7:00 to 9:00 pm The Church of the Redeemer 162 Bloor St. W, Toronto A...
View ArticleA Pastoral Letter for Holy Week 2013
The story was going a certain way. Sure, there were some detours along the way and things didn’t always go totally as expected, but the overall plot remained clear. It was all about home. It was all...
View ArticleResurrection Party!
Christ is risen. Alleluia! The Lord is risen indeed. Alleluia! And it pretty much all hangs on this confession. If the story has been about life from the beginning, if this story of “let there be” this...
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The Passion of Bruce Springsteen: Taking the Boss to Church
Sunday, April 21, 2013 7:00 p.m. A Rock Eucharist with The Wine Before Breakfast Band Dr. Brian Walsh preaching Church of the Redeemer Anglican (Avenue Rd and Bloor St.) Bring your dancing shoes…
View ArticleWBB, the Spirit and Beer; WBB in the Summer
[NOTE: During the fall/winter terms "Wine Before Breakfast" Eucharist services (WBB for short) happen each Tuesday morning at 7:22. This summer, for the first time, WBB will continue on a monthly...
View ArticleWine Before Beer – From Delight to Damnation: The Spirit and Creation
[NOTE: During the fall/winter terms "Wine Before Breakfast" Eucharist services (WBB for short) happen each Tuesday morning at 7:22. This summer, for the first time, WBB will continue on a monthly...
View ArticleWine Before Breakfast – Seeing is Believing
“Look, here is the Lamb of God!” declared John the Baptist. “What are you looking for?” Jesus asked of John’s two disciples who started following him around. “Umm, where are you staying?” they replied....
View ArticleMartyn Joseph in Concert – Sept 4
Martyn Joseph in Concert Thursday, Sept 4 8.00pm Sheraton Hall Wycliffe College $15.00 at the door For reserved tickets contact Brian Walsh Presented by Empire Remixed and Christian Reformed Campus...
View ArticleWine Before Breakfast – Food, Jesus and a confession
Food is always political. Food is never neutral. Where the food came from. Who produced that food. The farming practices that generated that food. The ecological cost of producing the food. The energy...
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Reconciliation in the City
Urban Remixed presents Reconciliation in the City with Mark Vander Vennen Executive Director, Shalem Mental Health Network Tuesday, February 12 @ 7.00 p.m. Leonard Hall Wycliffe College 5 Hoskin Ave.,...
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Campus Ministry at a Glance…
<<<< Watch a short video about this ministry . Wine Before Breakfast (Tuesdays @ 7:22 am) Beginning Sept 13, 2016, WBB is a weekly early morning Eucharist service, Tuesdays @ 7:22 a.m. in...
View ArticleWBB, Remembering and Re-storying
Worship is all about remembering and re-storying. Remembering. That which is disparate and often discordant is brought together. That which is dismembered is re-membered anew. Broken and painful...
View ArticlePernicious Nonsense or Seditious Threat?
“If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God’s children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.” So said Martin...
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