“We cherish the gift of historic faith and order not as walls of an enclosed fortress but as gifts of God which both witness to the past and serve the building of a future as yet unrealized. By thus combining the historical and futuristic notes in our understanding of the Church, we may be helped in our efforts to combine a loyalty to tradition with a sensitivity to contemporary movements.
“If this is a difficult adventure, it is not one which need endanger our souls. Rather might our souls be endangered if we were content either to rest in past tradition undisturbed or to share in contemporary enthusiasms without relation to the stream of Christian witness through the ages.”
(via bitchville)
Yaletown, 1912
Pretty sure this is the current Library Square site.
Source: Detail from William Stark photo, City of Vancouver Archives #PAN P98
My lovely wife and her thoughts about following God when it’s against her natural disposition as a introvert.
(Source: tomslaughter, via youshouldtakecare)
The kingdom of heaven is about God’s rule sweeping through the sad, decaying world we live in.
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