Tag Archives: Christianity
Truly Random Thoughts For Your Sunday
Watching the Remembrance Day ceremonies at the National War Memorial on television Friday I was struck once more with the passage of time. When I was younger, the elderly veterans at the cenotaph were my grandfather’s generation, men who had fought in the First World War. Those men are long dead. It has been 71 […]
The Atheist – I
She was back in the news again. I’ve tried to ignore the story, but maybe it is time to raise the questions. Gretta Vosper is a minister with the United Church of Canada, the biggest Christian denomination in the country. The United Church, as its name implies, was created in the 1925 merger of three […]
Thoughts For A Sunday Morning
I came across a page on Facebook recently filled with memes created from “classical” art. Some were crude, some were silly, but others I found quite funny. Those ones I will post here over the next little while. That way you don’t have to wade through the excrement – I’ve already done it for you. […]
The Warning
I take computer security pretty seriously. I have anti-virus software and do regular scans and backups. I try to avoid questionable websites. Over the years I have picked up the occasional virus from mis-typing (amazing how creative the crooks are; misspelling “Google” caused me problems once). But I’ve come across nothing I haven’t been able […]
Northern Ramadan
The sun rose yesterday at eleven minutes before one a.m. in Pangnirtung in northern Canada. It set at 11:55 p.m. No, that is not a misprint. They had less than an hour of darkness. Looking at the Environment Canada website it seems to me that further north there is no sunrise or sunset, that […]
The Church
“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” That line is a paraphrase of a statement popularized by philosopher George Santayana. It was running through my mind a lot this week, with the news that Ottawa’s Northwestern United Church building is being sold to the mosque next door. I assume the reason […]
The Mosque
The first mosque I ever visited was in a Toronto building that started its life as a Presbyterian church. I don’t think that usage was predestined. It was the Summer of 1989 and the mosque visit was part of an orientation session being given before we moved to Africa. I think the idea was that, […]
Bric A Brac VII – The Church
On my desk and shelves, in my home office and in my office on Parliament Hill are some objects that have a certain amount of significance in my life but which are otherwise useless. It is not like I need more ornamentation or decorations after all. Each one though has a story attached to it, […]
Rabban Hormizd IV
They’ve stopped saying mass in the church due to the security situation in the area. There’s a police checkpoint at the foot of the mountain, intended to prevent further looting. This part of Iraq is predominantly Christian, a throwback to the time when Christians were the majority in the entire Middle East. Muslims resent that, […]
Speaking Christian
I didn’t know it was a language. The taxi driver asked us, “Do you speak Christian.” I don’t. Though I am a Christian, I try to avoid some of the jargon that has sprung up around the faith. In North America it is all too easy to live in a Christian sub-culture that bears absolutely […]
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