Numbers, numbers, numbers, charts, percentages, speed, mileage, number of ‘clicks’ to your destination, costs, debts, profits, discounts, votes, days til Christmas. Sometimes, it feels like we’re surrounded, as if all…
Rev. Miserable - not his real name - was called to a very large, very active west-end Toronto congregation in 1982 – a church of 900 on the roll &…
Has anyone watched the television sitcom, ‘Mom’, with Academy Award winner Alison Janney? She plays a recovering alcohol & drug addict trying to rebuild her life and develop a solid…
Ten years ago, I was very fortunate to be in India & Nepal with my brother & sister – my brother was the tour organizer. One of the highlights of…
Words of wisdom: “Don’t pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.” - Bruce Lee. “Luck is a dividend of sweat; the more you…
It was Grade 13 - yes, I’m that old - and I had a spare period so I was getting some work done in the caf. Bob, president of the…
When my nephew was in high school - he’ll be 36 in August - he embarked on his own sociological study in downtown T.O, at the corner of Bay &…
A few years ago, there was a woman in my Mom’s congregation in Etobicoke whose husband passed onto glory just a few weeks before Thanksgiving. It was, of course, a…
Intro: Has anyone seen the movie, ‘Contact’, with Jodie Foster as a researcher of the universe, & Matthew McConaughey as a minister with whom she becomes acquainted. Having lost her…