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Corporate Chaplains Articles

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This is our Moment
By PortalBot • April 21, 2020

I believe that the church is the essential service in a broken world, and this is our moment. Will we take hold of this God-ordained moment, unlike any in our lifetime, to experience God working in...

On Thresholds of Light and Darkness
By PortalBot • March 23, 2020

We think— sometimes naively—that it would be a better world without darkness. On one hand, God does not have anything to do with darkness, but, of course, light is the contrast to the dark. 

Dawn of New Life
By PortalBot • February 10, 2020

After an experience with a brain aneurism, Terry experiences two different voices speaking into his experience.

 

A Port Chaplain's Reflections
By PortalBot • February 04, 2020

Every day, port chaplains are reaching out to seafarers that arrive on ships to the Port of Vancouver, sharing the love of God and the Good News with them.

Is Gratitude a Virtue?
By PortalBot • November 28, 2019

I believe having an “attitude of gratitude”, as the cliché goes, is a good character trait especially if inherent but in years past I struggled to accept it being labelled a virtue.

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Transformational Gratitude.
By PortalBot • November 15, 2019

A story years in the making. A Chaplains Story.

Looking a little like Jesus strolling down the path calling out to Zacchaeus, the Chaplain shouted up to Big Ron on his forklift. "Hey there ...

Grace & Gratitude
By PortalBot • October 15, 2019

Jesus' words, as quoted by Paul: “In everything I have shown you that by such hard work, we must help the weak and must remember the words of the Lord Jesus when he said, ‘To give is happier than t...

Awkward Questions
By PortalBot • September 11, 2019

Often simple social situations give rise to awkward questions that, on the surface, seem innocent enough but, when examined more closely, actually reinforce the values of the Empire around us rathe...

The Story of a Skeptical Manager & A Corporate Chaplain
By PortalBot • September 09, 2019

This is the story of a Skeptical Manager & A Corporate Chaplain...

Ronnie looked stern and grumpy seated in his big manager’s chair staring at me over the rim of his reading glasse...

A Three Act Play: "We are Wellness Chaplains"
By PortalBot • August 19, 2019

God is a playwright who is deeply interested in character development; and he uses all sorts of plot twists and genres and devices, things we can see, in order to bring about the changes we ca...

Conversations with a Chaplain
By PortalBot • July 11, 2019

“I don’t know where my anger is coming from.”

Randy looked down intently at his French Vanilla Whipped Cream Extravaganza supersize coffee supreme as we sat at a Tim Hortons, not too far ...