Category Religion
A Place of Tranquility
I lived on the same street as St. Cyriak church for four years, and would occasionally wander inside to touch base with history. There is something soothing about a building that has been used for Christian worship for more than a thousand years. It’s an oasis of peace on a spring day, the coolness of […]
Inspiring Words
It’s Sunday, I thought perhaps I should share something spiritual. This quote, author unknown, was sent to me by a friend in the U.K. I did indeed find it comforting. I hope you do too.
Worth Remembering
Moral of the story is to take God at his word.
Sacrifice
For today’s Flashback Friday post we revisit April 12, 2015. Kind of a Good Friday theme. While in Germany last summer we visited Museum Abtei Liesborn, which has the largest collection of crucifixes in Germany, more than 800 of them. I have written about that visit already, but thought today I would share just a couple more photos from that […]
Like No Other Before It
Happy Easter! Christ Is Risen! I thought today we would go back to four years ago, when the COVID-19 pandemic was just beginning to impact our society. Remember the lockdowns? Here is what Easter looked like in our corner of Germany in 2020. For those in the Orthodox and Coptic traditions (and a few others) […]
Flashback Good Friday
On Fridays this year I am looking back to past posts from the same date. Today is a little different. In 2015 Good Friday fell on April 3. Since today is Good Friday, I’m goin to re-share that one. As a radio guy I have a great appreciation for the traditions of the medium. I […]
The Orphanage
It is Flashback Friday once more. Today we go back to March 22, 2015 and some reflections on a visit to Istanbul. I wrote about visiting one of the Princes Islands in Istanbul, and my interest in the abandoned building at the top of the hill. I recently discovered there is more to the story of that […]
Definitely Not A Hit
Many years ago I hosted a daily noon-hour request show at Ottawa’s CHRI-FM. I had mixed feelings about it. The plus was the interaction with the audience. Radio is a solitary occupation, and those who called in with requests were a reminder that there was an audience out there, that the songs I was playing weren’t […]
Christmas Eve, 2023
Today is the fourth Sunday in Advent, the day we light the candle signifying Love. Like Hope, Peace and Joy the previous few Sundays, sometimes it doesn’t feel like there is much love in the world. The picture is of a nativity scene at a Lutheran church in Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ. Setting […]
Three More Sleeps
With Christmas just around the corner, some Advent thoughts from 2015. He looked round again and could hardly believe his eyes. There was the blue sky overhead, and grassy country spreading as far as he could see in every direction, and his new friends all round him, laughing. “It seems, then,” said Tirian, smiling himself, […]
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