Not a Reindeer Story
I became a believer in Christ with what Craig Larson calls the “Rudolph-the-Red-Nosed-Reindeer syndrome.”
Life
Living and Learning
Here is a reader-friendly, truth-seeking, insightful story, which locates its genesis in not yet disheartened times.
Listening
St. Andrew’s, King Street, in Toronto, has reissued a1972 recording in which 10 choristers and organist/director Douglas Bodle present 17 hymns from the 1972 Book of Praise.
Who Let That Guy into the Nativity Scene?
Caganer Nativity Set The Caganer is a popular nativity set figurine found in the Catalan cultures of southern France, the Balearic Islands, southern Italy, Spain […]
The God He Loves
Lawrence Brice presents an explanation (an apologetic) in a popular, thoughtful way that reveals why the faith of the Christian is satisfying in both rational and experiential ways.
The Game
As we watched the serene scene of the otters on the dock, over on the island there was someone else watching. Baldy the Eagle left his perch, beating the air for elevation. If you didn’t know the game, you would never have guessed what Baldy was up to.
Buy One, Give One
Bible On the one hand, the new Archeological Study Bible is just another New International Version. The translation is the same. On the other hand, […]
Doing It All Wrong
Through it all, through the dark shadows, the mood lighting, the strange and disturbing dioramas, which were ubiquitously familiar, through the growing sense of horror as we moved for a long time through the subterranean passages, I heard Charlie Farquharson’s prophets screaming in my head, “You’re doing it all wrong!”
The Calvin Lectures
I would have loved to sit through these lectures, which were given at St. Andrew’s Hall, Vancouver, and the Presbyterian College, Montreal, in the fall of 2009 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of John Calvin’s birth.
Keep Your Stick on the Ice
As the old joke has it, God is obviously a baseball fan—“In the big inning …”—so perhaps hockey, too, has been around longer than Don Cherry.
That’s Some Team
A few years ago I approached Presbyterian World Service and Development with the idea of doing a profile of Guy Smagghe. I had travelled with […]
Wag the Dog
It was Friday’s tail that was his most disconcerting physical trait. Friday’s tail was docked in true spaniel fashion but in mind and body he was obviously built for a full-length tail. He had absolutely no idea how to wag a short-docked tail, so he didn’t. His tail wagged him.
Confronting Secularism
Is adopting a secular outlook an inevitable outcome? Are the arguments of secularists cogent enough to turn all of us away from any understanding of God that has any similarity to the Christian religion? These are questions of paramount importance for people of faith. Are we dealing with them seriously?
One Sabbath in September
Work seemed to be killing us. From now on we were going to be Sabbath keepers. More or less.
Conduit to Conversation
Every now and then comes a letter than is a conversation-ender and just plain stupid. Here is an example.
Pretty Nice Grace
It’s Sunday morning and the women’s choir is belting out, “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound/ Which saved a child like me …” And somehow […]
Church As We Dream
The church as we have known it is probably on the way out but, Bass suggests, all is not lost. Bass sees a future for an awakened church.
We Need to Repent
Kitsch Teen Rebecca Black’s YouTube sensation “Friday” had 167 million hits and was widely dubbed “the worst song ever made.” It contains such clever lyrics […]
We Have Grace
Joy, joy, joy,” I wrote across the top of the page. It was almost intermission at the Broadway staging of Godspell and my notebook was […]
A Word of Hope
On the last day of General Assembly, five people from across the country shared their reflections on two questions: What does it look like for […]