Dopamine? What I’ve Learned Most After 45 Days of Writing
Dopamine. You mean that chemical that stimulates pleasure in our brains? Stay with me: I’ve been writing “Up!” for 45 days. (You can link to […]
science
Two Essentials For A Happy Marriage
What makes a happy marriage? It could be a billion dollar question. Some marriages struggle and soar; some struggle and sink; some struggle and keep struggling; […]
Miracle Monday
It is a miracle story – and as such presents a few problems when we read it today. We’re not quite sure what to do with miracles. Embrace them? Avoid them? Dismiss them? Wonder if they are anachronistic expressions of… what?
Respect for Humans
Pick up the newspaper or watch the TV or listen to the radio any morning and these will be some of the stories you are […]
Physics Versus Faith
Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders have rejected claims that belief in the divine has been disproved following the assertion by British physicist Stephen Hawking that […]
Reason Versus Religion
To the God-inspired men who wrote the Bible, Earth was the centre of the universe God created for us. Prophets and kings would have found it easy to imagine a sovereign atop the clouds ruling his dominions, sending emissary angels to encourage or rebuke wandering desert nomads. How dramatically this clashes with our “modern” perspective in which our dear green and blue planet is so infinitely tiny as to almost surpass imagination. And there, perhaps, is the key.
We Don’t See Miracles Anymore
The Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul, Montreal, proposed a daring theme for Lenten chapel services: questions often asked but seldom answered in church. One rearranged this wanderer’s worldview, like a kaleidoscope’s shifting pattern. “Why don’t miracles happen anymore?”
Lunch with Friends
At lunch with lifelong friends, talk turned to the church which accepted my hesitant application for membership 10 years ago. They’re mildly puzzled. What about all the terrible things that God allows to happen? Look at all that has been done or not done by those who claim to follow Jesus Christ.