Welcome to Season 19! In this episode, we continue our tradition of reflecting on the mysteries of our lives through the myster...

Their technique of guarding the heart bears some similarities with today’s use of meditation.The Desert Fathers, Christians who...

Not every conversion begins with a spectacular fall. It isn’t always about living far from God and then making a sudden return....

On happiness, vocation, and the difference between building a resume and building a life worth living.

Meet Matt. A dear friend of Glass Canvas whose identity at a young age was shaped by external factors. Throughout his formative years, he struggled with the way his identity was forming — either through basketball, friendships, and achievements — without first understanding who he truly was. He...

Meet Simon. A member of Glass Canvas Ministries and a part of our Accompaniment Training team. As a young missionary kid in Papua New Guinea, Simon formed many of his early memories surrounded by missionaries and witnessed how they faithfully brought the gospel into the jungle. His worldview was...

Meet Asia, a a friend of Glass Canvas who has been accompanied by a member of Glass Canvas, and her own community. We were honoured to witness her life and her vulnerability as a model of the freedom we desire for those you are accompanying. Asia spent years chasing the film industry, believing...

I'm struck by the fact that God actually trusts us. He trusts us to cooperate, He trusts us to act, He trusts us to dig deep and go beyond the shallow and superficial. Essentially, He is asking us to do the hard work and trusts us to actually do it. The problem is that if I’m being honest, I hate...

What kind of faith can actually last a lifetime?

Prayer never came easily for me.Most of the time, I either tried too hard or not at all. I would sit down wanting to hear God, ...

Do you turn prayer into a negotiation, bargaining with God until you get the outcome you want? Fr Columba shares a story from s...

The one thing we can never do enough of is praying. And the one thing we could all use a little more of is prayer. Our hope is that these videos will help you to grow in your spirituality. ‍ God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change courage to change the things I can and wisdom...

In our human relationships when we ‘get closer’ with someone, it can feel genuinely lovely. We begin to feel more trust and mor...

"Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing." - 1 Thessalonians 5:16-17 Fr. Gregory Pine is joined by his sister, Rebecca Dougherty, ...

In his 1990 World Day of Peace message, St. John Paul II, an avid hiker, said: “Our very contract with nature has a deep restor...

Do you think of Christianity as a set of rules? A list of dos and don'ts?  In this episode, Fr Columba opens with a striking li...

Welcome to Season 19! In this episode, we continue our tradition of reflecting on the mysteries of our lives through the myster...

Meet Asia, a a friend of Glass Canvas who has been accompanied by a member of Glass Canvas, and her own community. We were honoured to witness her life and her vulnerability as a model of the freedom we desire for those you are accompanying. Asia spent years chasing the film industry, believing...

Meet Simon. A member of Glass Canvas Ministries and a part of our Accompaniment Training team. As a young missionary kid in Papua New Guinea, Simon formed many of his early memories surrounded by missionaries and witnessed how they faithfully brought the gospel into the jungle. His worldview was...

Meet Matt. A dear friend of Glass Canvas whose identity at a young age was shaped by external factors. Throughout his formative years, he struggled with the way his identity was forming — either through basketball, friendships, and achievements — without first understanding who he truly was. He...

We knew my grandma was in pain for a long time. We’d seen her suffering from COPD for the better part of a decade and it was a painful and slow decline. Her lungs were losing their elasticity and every breath was slightly harder than the last breath. We'd see her about once a year and every time...

As a child, I despised the words “just wait.” Even into adulthood, I find that patience is the thing that I struggle with the most. Whether it’s waiting for a bus that is perpetually late or for God to reveal the next step, the desire seems to always be the same: I just want to move. Our society...

Meet Colleen. Her experience navigating friendship and how to do that beyond just a season, but committing to one another in all the change life brings. She shares the significance of fighting for friendship and evolving with the other person through honesty and asking forgiveness. And on the other...

Why did God create a world with so much evil and suffering, and then allow it all to happen? Lets run an AI simulation and find out. This video touches on the problem of evil; judgement; heaven and hell; the fall; who is Jesus; and much more.

Why do so many people drift from faith in early adulthood, only to feel drawn back to it later in life? In this episode of Offi...

In this episode, we continue our Lenten book study on “The Way of Trust and Love” and focus on Chapter 3: Being Reconciled to O...

In this episode, we continue our Lenten book study on “The Way of Trust and Love” and focus on Chapter 2: An Elevator for Small...

Why does god allow suffering and pain? Why does God allow evil, war (wwIII anxiety) natural disasters and all the bad things? Why doesn't God intervene? A "How to" get through the problem of evil with a look from the book of Job, to Jesus, to the Brothers Karamazov.

In this compelling short, Sr. Josephine Garrett offers a bold invitation to surrender control and let Jesus fully enter your life. Her message is striking: when you welcome Jesus in, He might not fit neatly into your plans. He might even undo them. But it is through this disruption that something...

Faith and spirituality are on the decline—but what does that mean for our happiness and sense of meaning? In this episode of Of...

Why are we so bent on finding an alternative to obeying the living God? My favorite scene from Excalibur: Young Arthur has remo...

Your identity—what Jesus really calls you—is the foundation for everything (yes, everything!) you do for the rest of your life....

“How is it possible to do work that you’re proud of and not feel like your job is encroaching on all parts of your life?” Cal Newport, author of ‘Slow Productivity,’ explains. As we navigate the unfulfilling parts of work and relationship, it can be helpful to get tools that keep us afloat. We...

Most people think emotions happen to them. In reality, emotions are signals—and you can learn to manage them. In this clip, I break down how emotions move from the limbic system, where they’re generated, to the prefrontal cortex, where you can interpret, direct, and act on them wisely. This is the...

It’s inevitable that our parents shape us – for good and bad. Andrew talked about growing up in a home where his dad shut down his emotions and his mother was unable to be present to him. It inevitably set the tone for how he would approach his own life and emotions. But there’s something unjust in...

“Yet, LORD, you are our father; we are the clay and you our potter: we are all the work of your hand.” (Isaiah 64:7) Sometimes it feels as though my heart is a piece of clay, rearranged and altered by the slightest disturbance. A Facebook notification alerting me that yet another high school friend...

Jo Saxton opens up lots of the habits we have, even in church, to cover how we are really feeling with - ‘I’m fine’ - out of fear that we may come across desperate. Looking at Mark 5, Jo illustrates what the woman reaching for the hem of Jesus’ cloak would’ve had to push passed and redefines...

Do you believe you have value? Why? It’s a shocking question because we all might want to say: “Yes, of course.” But maybe someone secretly thinks: I don’t actually know . And others: “I don’t have value.” (or I am not valuable.) How do we decide these measurements in life? Do we have value when or...

Half our day is spent not living in the moment. Here’s how to change that. Your inner voice isn't always very nice or helpful. When we turn our attention inward, we tend to focus on problems rather than solutions.This causes us to worry, ruminate, and catastrophize, which traps us in a negative...

Most of the decisions that shape a life don’t feel like decisions at all. They feel instead like expectations to follow a certain life – thrust upon us by parents, society, peers. The cost of fulfilling these expectations is subtle but cumulative: fewer experiments, narrower options, and a growing...