So I’m up at Malibu Club, a Young Life camp, on the BC Coast this week, hanging with a bunch of high school kids from Arizona and Montana. One kid came up to me today and asked me to sit down with him. He mentioned that he had a hard […]
Author: Sam McLoughlin
Do you need God to be good?
Do you need God to be good? I think a lot of Christians would quote something like Isaiah 64 on this one: “All our righteous acts are like filthy rags.” Or they might point to the words of Jesus to the Rich Young Ruler in Mark 10: “No one is good except […]
Blue Like Jazz strikes a chord
It was the summer of 2005 that I discovered the rambling wit and disarming charm of one Donald Miller on display in a weathered copy of Blue Like Jazz I borrowed from a friend. This was after my first year at university, a year filled with strange moments, people and ideas that […]
Passion Vancouver 2012
On Friday night, roughly twelve thousand young people gathered at Rogers arena, the closest thing Vancouver has to a communal temple, for a church service/rock concert. This was Passion’s 3rd time to Vancouver, and after the huge turnout, there will undoubtedly be a fourth. Something very meaningful that happens when a […]