In place of New Year’s resolutions (which usually fail!) some have the custom of choosing a word, just one word, to accompany and inspire them through the year.
Author Archives: Mike Mason
Under Tuscan Skies: A Most Unusual Eucharist
I’m just back from a two-week tour of Italy with a group from my old seminary, Regent College in Vancouver.
My Meeting with John Lennon: A Lesson in Trust
Lately I’ve been very worried about my writing. Or rather, not writing, but publishing. The fact is, after a fairly successful career of over forty years and many books, I can’t get published anymore. Publishers will no longer even look at my stuff.
The Parable of the Birds Remixed
We all know the parable of the birds, in which a man on Christmas Eve sees a flock of birds huddled in the snow, cold and miserable. He tries to entice them into his warm barn, but being afraid, they want nothing to do with him.
Bad Day / Best Day: A Modern-Day Easter Story
The following story was written by my friend Rennie, whose two teenaged sons were killed in a car accident in 1999. I dedicated my book Champagne for the Soul to those two boys, Joël and Daniel.
Holy Feet: A Maundy Thursday Story
Here’s an excerpt from a new novel I’m working on. In this story, my protagonist Nathan’s father lies incapacitated in a care home, in an advanced state of Alzheimer’s. Initially unable to communicate with his father at all, and feeling profoundly alienated, over the course of many visits Nathan gradually learns to express, and to receive, love.
Pinocchio: The Rest of the Story
This story was published nearly forty years ago in my book The Furniture of Heaven & Other Parables for Pilgrims. I wonder if it rings any bells for you today?
At Home with Mary, Martha, & Lazarus: Imagined Scenarios
Here’s a little piece from the new book I’m working on, a collection of parables. It has a few twists and turns, so hang on!
Infinity in Four Chair Legs: More Ordinary Quotes
If you’ve read my book Same Old, Same New: The Consolation of the Ordinary you’ll know that it’s full of quotes.
Cherubs & Stars: Two Poems
How will the world end? Read on.