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A lesson for the church from Target
Target announced yesterday that it is pulling out of Canada, closing the 133 stores that it has opened here over the past few years. The […]
Target announced yesterday that it is pulling out of Canada, closing the 133 stores that it has opened here over the past few years. The […]
Happy new year! I have a habit – a tradition, of sorts – that I undertake every time I change a calendar. I did it […]
Christmas wasn’t always a given. The world marks it as a game-saving, end-of-year commercial venture. The church marks it as the celebration of God, having […]
As is quite common with newly-elected politicians, the new mayor of the city of Toronto, John Tory, has come out of the gates bucking to […]
Though the radio stations are already playing Christmas music, and Wal-Mart has gifts and tinsel up for sale (heck, Costco had decorations up in October!), […]
I heard a story the other day about a woman who was in labour, preparing to give birth to her second child. Her husband got […]
Today is a day of waiting, for me. Granted, it’s not as serious a form of waiting as, say, loved ones waiting for the results […]
I’ve been a recreational curler for about 16 years. While I don’t think I’d be God’s gift to any team going to the Brier, I […]
There are varying opinions among followers of Jesus regarding what to do about Hallowe’en. Some say we should steer clear of it because God’s people […]
For a long time, we assumed these sorts of things only happened in other places: Tel Aviv. Belfast. New York. Now we know: Canada is […]
A lot of people, it seems, are worried about the Ebola Virus. I wouldn’t call it “mass hysteria” yet, but we are getting close to […]
Most Canadian households will celebrate Thanksgiving this weekend in one fashion or another, whether it’s by inviting the extended family over to the house for […]
Yesterday was “We Day” in Toronto, an annual event that encourages young people to engage with their communities and be good ‘global citizens’. While there […]
I shared a poem at a memorial service this week which I had used many years ago, but stumbled upon again. It was written by […]
We may not like to think of it this way, but pain is a gift. Most of us would rather not experience pain, and many […]
The telephone in my home office has a digital display. Lately, though, it’s been playing tricks on me, as you’ll see in the photo. Normally, […]
On social media last week, there was quite a bit of rancour over a video clip of megachurch pastor’s wife Victoria Osteen talking about how […]
Welcome to Labour Day weekend, when, ironically, we celebrate the value of work by not working! For most people outside the trade union movement, however, […]
Yesterday afternoon, commuter traffic was snarled in the area around Burlington and Hamilton, Ontario, due to an accident. While this is nothing new, the kind of accident […]