L'Abri Canada
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L'Abri Canada
A podcast resource providing audio of the most current lectures given at L’Abri Fellowship Canada, near Victoria, B.C. If you'd like more information, see https://www.canadianlabri.org/
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107 episodes
The Surprising Welcome of the Gospel: A Look the Ethiopian Eunuch (Clarke Scheibe)
What on the surface seems like just another conversion story in the book of Acts is in fact an epiphany of the wideness of the gospel for the world. I...
Forming, Filling, Naming: The Lost Words as Creational Enchantment (Christian Eickenroht)
“Once upon a time, words began to vanish from the language of children.”
So begins the preface to The Lost Words, written by Robert Mac...
Sojourners: Understanding Pilgrimmage (Hannah Eichelberger)
"For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding." (1 Chroni...
Jesus: Myth, Failure, or Lord? (Clarke Scheibe)
This talk will look at three views - that Jesus was a mythic creation to mimic the Greek gods, that Jesus was historical figure but a failed prophet t...
Between the Straits: Must a Christian support Israel? (Mark Ryan)
Guest speaker Mark Ryan join us to discuss the complicated relationship Christians have to Israel. He is the director of Sage Christianity, adjunct pr...
Reading Providence when God seems absent (Clarke Scheibe)
We are assured in the Bible that God oversees and provides not just for nature and for all of humanity, but for especially his own children. Jesus sai...
Holy Silence, Music, and Rest (Jonno Saunders)
Nobody wants constant noise, in music or in life—we need to rest. Rest is a musical term, and in music it's about breathing, embodying the holiness of...
AI and Human Dignity (Dr Frank Stootman)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has increasingly advanced such that human intelligence and creativity is easily challenged and superceded by this technol...
God's Journey with me through cancer (Brett Cane)
Our dear Brett Cane, retired Anglican priest, had an operation for stage 2A lung cancer last January followed by chemotherapy in the Spring and recove...
Meaningless Jobs (Clarke Scheibe)
In recent years, many have expressed the proliferation of meaningless jobs. This goes beyond the burden of mundane tasks. It is the burden of not know...
Wayward Priests and Unsaintly Saints (Christina Eickenroht)
The titular characters in Frederick Buechner’s historical novels Godric (1980) and Brendan (1987) are wayward priests and unsaintly saints, “just as c...
The Abnormality of Death (Clarke Scheibe)
Just thinking about hearing a diagnosis that we have a terminal illness sends a shiver up the spine and dampens the joy in the heart. Our life so sign...
Despising the Shame: Jesus, a Pharisee, and a Sinful Woman (Clarke Scheibe)
In this passage we see a scorned woman who is desperate to approach Jesus, despite his being the invited guest of a wealthy and righteous man. To ever...
All is Gift, All is Passing Away, and All Shall Be Made New (Christina Eickenroht)
The table is set: In his 1633 Still life with an overturned silver tazza, glassware, pies, and a peeled lemon on a table, Willem Claeszoon Heda spread...
The Christian and Political Engagement (Clarke Scheibe)
Christians have been pressed once again to reconsider what is a biblical way of being politically and culturally engaged. In light of the US Election...
The Mandate for Creation: Pollution and the Death of Man (Clarke Scheibe)
Problems in the environment have gotten far worse since 1970. For some, this has caused many to feel urgency, for others, indifference. How is one to...
Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up? Discerning False Christs (Clarke Scheibe)
People grow frustrated when they see Jesus being misused, for example, by political factions. However, it is easy to project a false image of Christ t...
Jonah, Silence, and the Sea (Hannah Eichelberger)
Is being swallowed by a sea monster a form of rescue or danger? The book of the prophet Jonah is a perfect example of uncomfortable and often unwanted...
Comic. Tragic. Brutal. The Life and Writings of Flannery O'Connor (Clarke Scheibe)
Flannery O'Connor was a devout Catholic writer from the Deep South (in the US) in the 1950s and wrote hilarious and horrifying short stories. T.S. Eli...
Personality Redeemed (Robb Ludwick)
The core of the Christian gospel is not that God promises to remove and replace his beloved creation with something better, but that He promises to sa...
Remembering Together: Community, Memory, and Archives (Marta Crilly)
Marta Crilly holds a MA in History, and a Masters in Archives Management from Simmons University. She worked as an Archivist for the city of Boston an...
The Five Themes of L'Abri (Clarke Scheibe)
While these five themes are not the only important aspects to the work of L'Abri, it does give a coherent picture of what L'Abri believes, in what it...
Redemptive Placemaking: Our call to faithfully build places for community flourishing (Sara Joy Proppe)
She formerly worked in real estate development and affordable housing but has taken that experience to launch Proximity Project, which she is the foun...
Why Marriage Still Matters (Liz Snell)
Marriage rates continue to decline, especially among younger generations, where marriage is often given little importance. Is this a sign of liberatio...
The Rise of Cultural Christianity (Clarke Scheibe)
Christianity, particularly in the past few decades, has been under attack. However, it seems that this past decade, and even in the past couple of yea...
The Lowest Room: Comparison through the eyes of Christina Rosetti (Hannah Eichelberger)
The poem “The Lowest Room” by Christina Rossetti explores what it means to be in the lower place, the spot where you look up and see all the things th...
Is the Gospel for Women? A look at Margaret Atwood's _Handmaid's Tale_ and _Testatements_ (Clarke)
This talk looks at the wildly popular books - The Handmaid's Tale (1985) and The Testaments (2019) - by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. The popularit...
Rumours of a Better Country (Marsh Moyle)
What does it mean to live together well? To be thriving communities of unique people where trust runs deep, differences does not threaten, and power i...
A Voice in the Whirlwind: Hope and Suffering in Job (Dr Beth Stovell)
We welcomed Dr. Beth Stovell, professor of Old Testament at Ambrose University, as a part of a local conference on hope and suffering in Victoria. Thi...
Redemptive Hiding: Visual and Verbal Poetics in Bruegel and Dostoevsky (Christina Eickenroht)
We welcomed guest speaker Christina Eickenroht to give an excellent and accessible lecture on this intriguing topic. Recommended!
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Sociology: Friend or Foe of the Church? (Jessa Birdsall)
The founding fathers of sociology - Marx, Weber, and Durkheim - were deeply secular. The field of sociology has championed the social construction of...
The Compromise of Biblical Authority - A Look at Schaeffer’s _Great Evangelical Disaster_ (Clarke)
In this talk Clarke looks at the importance of seeing the Word of God (namely, the Scriptures) as our only sure foundation in the midst of our lives a...
Religious but not Spiritual: Looking for Assurance through Technique (Clarke S)
While it is more common to hear someone say that they are "spiritual but not religious," in their opposition to organized religion, there has also bee...
Singleness (Brett Cane)
Is singleness a blessing or a curse? Is marriage the Christian “default” position? What about singles and the church? How do singles address the ques...
Biblical Criticism for Christians (Dr. Tim Hogue)
This talk will be about what biblical criticism is and what challenges it poses to believers. We'll cover these challenges under the headings the prob...
The Sins of our Fathers: Wounds that confuse (Robb Ludwick, Dutch L’Abri)
There is no perfect parent, but the wounds we receive from our parents can have a long term influence on the beliefs, choices and desires we have as a...
The Difficulty with the Love of God (Clarke Scheibe)
People struggle to understand the love of God because it is not being expressed in God's people. Difficulties arise because Christians are judgmental...
Parable of the Shrewd Manager (Clarke Scheibe)
This talk is on the perplexing parable of the shrewd manager and how Jesus's teaching has implications for how we are to think of our money and our po...
E.T. and Human Significance in the Large Cosmos (Dr Dennis Danielson)
The more we learn about our Universe filled with galaxies, the smaller and perhaps the more insignificant we and our Earth can appear. How do we respo...
When Do You Know it is God’s Spirit? Discerning Unusual Manifestations (Scott Anderson, pastor)
What are we to think when we see or hear a story of someone shaking in worship, falling when prayed for, or crying out or even laughing uncontrollably...