2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
Christianity's birth pangs; junior hockey's dangerous life; the death of the great liberal, Peter Lougheed
No one expected Lincoln's second inaugural, but President Obama's historic moment fell short of Bush's second inaugural address four years earlier, which made a bold argument for liberty as the heart of America's mission to the nations Christians in the early 4th century likely looked upon Constanti...
The smoke-free posse burgles Santa's pipe; the Globe and Mail's Jeffrey Simpson busts a howler, and our editor-in-chief warns of bishops bursting their buttons.
It's the work of "smoking cessation advocate" Pamela McColl, who writes on the cover that the book is "edited by Santa Claus for the benefit of the children of the 21st century So it was instructive that he began his column on evangelical Christians with this frank admission: "We in what is called t...
Is not childhood the time in our lives, replicated perhaps only at the very end of life and at moments of deepest spiritual awareness, when meaning actually comes before information? Don't we, if we are Christians, know the crucial importance of a Baby Jesus even if we're unclear on the logistics of what a Baby Jesus is or where to find him?
Even if such comrades have never borne the Baby Jesus up the aisle of a church on Christmas Eve, surely they carry the meaning of Christ in their hearts and, as children, are not far from the kingdom And is not childhood the time in our lives, replicated perhaps only at the very end of life and at m...
Is this the contemporary state of values in public life? The best McGrath could do was appeal to Jack Layton's farewell letter, his "let's get along moment" in Canadian politics, and reframe Haidt's thesis in social democratic language Haidt's politics are probably dissimilar from mine, but I apprec...
What does cause me deep concern, however, is the brush with subtle corruption I experienced when in a city police station when I went to fill out the report that is a pre-requisite to filing an insurance claim ...
Any attempt by the state or fellow citizens to assert authority over them or legal claims against them thus requires their express consent, and failure to obtain consent is a violation of human rights law, Divine Law, and even the United States Uniform Commercial Code ...
And this is the reason that Osnos says censored regimes like China could never produce a parody like Gangnam Style In an interview with Evan Osnos, Osnos says that the reason that South Korea could produce something as off the mainstream, and frankly as bizarre, as Gangnam Style is because of the hi...
We are living with the institutional legacy of peoples who knew that the political health of their country was directly related to the choices between different conceptions of the good, and the social institutions which weave together to make that good ...
There are times when the failure to exercise the authority of position is indeed a sign of weakness There are, however, also times when the exercise of authority, just because you can—yielding to short-term impulses over long-term interests—is equally a sign of weakness ...
Yet there, yesterday, was the character named Rope who, when I last imagined him, was kneeling face down on a downtown sidewalk with his eyes full of broken glass, slowly bleeding to death to end a short story called "Orange and Peel ...
So where are these misogynistic acts the minister was talking about? Catholic and other religious parents and educators are concerned she was talking about their pro-life views teenager Amanda Todd is a poignant reminder of the power of words ...
And how do Elizabeth and Darcy work to their delicate balance in this classic love story? Certainly not by following the 2012 advice of Hannah Rosin: "Cannily manipulating to make space for their success, always keeping their own ends in mind ...
Usually MPs are quite chatty and boisterous after votes as they head off to various receptions, meetings, etc ...
That is not to say that every Catholic (or any other religious school) consistently lives out its principles and that the bullying problem doesn't exist there I have more confidence in the protection of a gay Catholic student in a Catholic school that lives its principles than I do in the protection...
She writes, "It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead Current vitality of artistic creativity is found in the applied arts, particularly in industrial design ...