THE REV. DR. G. MALCOLM SINCLAIR
The Rev. Dr. George Malcolm Sinclair was called to the pulpit of the Metropolitan Church in 1988. In 1998 the congregation invited him to serve further in an Intentional Long-Term Ministry. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Laurentian University, a Master of Divinity degree from Emmanuel College, Toronto. In 1986 he received the Doctor of Ministry degree from Drew University in the United States, and in 1997 was awarded the Doctor of Divinity degree (honoris causa) from Emmanuel College.
Dr. Sinclair has served four Toronto congregations over forty-one years, and is widely invited to preach across Canada and beyond. He has been a theme speaker at home and in the United States, and has lectured on “Imagination in Preaching” at the Toronto School of Theology. He has contributed to “Feasting on the Word”, a multi-volume lectionary resource for preachers, published by Westminster John Knox Press in Nashville, and is now working on articles for their new series called "Feasting on the Gospels".
He is a Past-President of the St. Andrew’s Society of Toronto, a member of the Royal Canadian College of Organists, Clan Sinclair of Canada, and is a Captain in, and Padre to, the 78th Fraser Highlanders, York Garrison.
Feb 12
STEREOTYPES!!!
Bring them on. I love such a fancy hiding place:
“Ministers”….odd, naïve, intensely sincere about non-issues, brittle, sitting ducks for cultural ridicule, those who perfect ceiling wax in the age of smart-phones.
“Churches”….old-peoples’ homes at prayer, mice-anonymous groups, makers of bad tea, under-pitched music, and long prayers lifted to an empty sky.
“The Bible”…drug-induced fantasy, a weapon for conservative-evangelical assault-parties, somebody else’s’ pipe-dream, ancient history bent by self-interest, a thin coat for a very cold night.
“Worship”…your mother’s lingering directive, head-games from a hidden,
central source, tiny-talent-time for people who can’t make it in the real worlds of show-biz, the arts, day-jobs or cultural leadership.
“The Gospel of Christ”….propaganda, imperialism, manipulation of weak minds, terror-tactic, buffer zone between hangers-on and death.
“Questions of Meaning and Eternity”….time-wasters in a culture desperate to succeed, stand and not fall, a weakness in a room full of armoured knights.
Ah, if you only knew.
Some of us are not stupid. Some of us are not afraid. Some are not brittle. Some are wide open to grace, truth and the hard, terrifying, amazing vicissitudes of our common life.
But we’ll hide under the stereotypes, like Robin and his merry men and women, darting out like bandits, now and then, with arrows straight and true, to take from the smug and give to those who are still awake and wild.
Next time you drive past a sleepy little church…remember!
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