Blog | Phil Reinders

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Hi there friends - so grateful for you subscribing to this blog and please forgive my general absence from this site. I could give you a...

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Sep 16, 20242 min read

How to Advent

Can I do that, turn a noun into a verb? Is Advent a verb? What is Advent all about anyways? Advent begins this coming Sunday, a four-week...

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Nov 29, 20232 min read

A rule for reconstruction

I recently wrote an article for a little Canadian gem called Christian Courier, a small Christian publication "seeking a faithful...

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Dec 5, 20226 min read

All saints (and sinners)

Have you ever celebrated the feast of All Saints (aka All-Saints Day). It’s today, November 1. For over a millennia, Christians have...

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Nov 1, 20224 min read

Labour day liturgy

For your Labour Day prayers: here is a brilliant song from the Porter's Gate, "Your Labor is Not in Vain." (I play this every Sunday on...

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Sep 5, 20222 min read

Viruses, missiles, and ashes: learning to die

The trouble with normal is that it doesn’t exist. Whatever we previously believed to be normal life was smokescreen and subterfuge,...

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Mar 2, 20223 min read

Loving your enemies, the Lasso Way

Are you sick of the fighting, the social media trolling and trashing, the climate of contempt and derision, all the destructive...

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Jul 23, 20214 min read

Haste the day

Sometimes - oftentimes - we lack for words. In the midst of a glorious good, in the muddle of hollowed darkness, both can leave you...

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May 5, 20211 min read

The necessary interlude

Growing up I never knew this last day of Lent had a name. It was simply another Saturday, this one sandwiched between the big days of...

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Apr 3, 20213 min read

A new year's prayer coming out of 2020

Hey, we made it. The annus horribilis of 2020 is in the rearview mirror. And as we all move out into this new year – perhaps with an...

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Jan 2, 20212 min read

Ditch the resolutions for a rule

January 1 – an entire shiny new year lying ahead, 365 calendar squares of unmarked living. It screams of so much possibility and...

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Dec 31, 20204 min read

The real Christmas deal

"A saint is one who exaggerates what the world neglects." G. K. Chesterton No, Virginia, that paunchy, red-suited, white-bearded stranger...

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Dec 5, 20204 min read

Tel Aviv Market

Fresh off of a flight, desperate to stave off jet lag, I dove into the Carmel Market (the Shuk Hacarmel) - a full sensory delight that...

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Nov 12, 20201 min read

Welcome

Hey all, and welcome to my brand shiny new blog site. After years of writing over at Squinch, I figured a more readily identifiable blog...

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Nov 12, 20201 min read