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So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory A whisper which says: "Listen, I have something to tell you—a great mystery ...
As much as who should and should not be married and to how many people at any one time continues to be a debate in North American society, no one seems anymore to care about whether or not marriage is a useful institution and if it is, is it healthy? So, I thought it worth checking with Statistics C...
The petro-politics of the Caspian lack the fire power of the South China Sea, and we are far from a flashpoint, but as more rogue states of the world find solace behind the regional interests of emerging autocracies like Russia, we may be wistful for some old time rights talk from an honest broker ...
Can the shape or condition of a room change you? Eric Jacobsen, for instance, has thought about this in great depth, encouraging Christians to consider the way in which built environments shape us, and how we can shape built environments in ways which account for our complexity—and potential ...
"One ought to be able to hold in one's head simultaneously the two facts that Dali is a good draughtsman and a disgusting human being," Orwell writes in Benefit of Clergy: Some Notes on Salvador Dali Rather, both press for the cultural clarity to see art as so powerful and so foundational that, at t...
In "Why Bother with the Humanities in a Time of Crisis?" from Comment last year, Deborah Bowen describes the power of story for changing lives In a culture of instant gratification and instant communication, young people increasingly need help to contextualize: to recognize that the world beyond the...
So while the interview with I Dig Your Girlfriend was no doubt well-received in the lesbian and gay community, what stirred the pot among some of the 34% of Albertans who voted for Smith's party in this year's April 23 election was that when she said people of faith have to show they can represent e...
Not so the independents of the post-secondary world, who rid education of the fashionable philosophical fictions of academic freedom, and talk frankly about ends, means, telos Public education should, in fact, be at the service of the public, and if a public administration feels that job is being do...
In this opening episode Daniels, playing fictional news anchor Will McAvoy, states, "America is not the greatest country in the world There is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest country in the world: we're 7th in literacy, 27nd in math, 22nd in science, 49th in l...
In the next few weeks, a story will emerge in real time, of some person whose name I don't know today, playing a sport the rules of which I cannot tell you, that will teach me something about what it means to be human Combine that hard work with some physical and mental aptitude for a particular spo...
Blue chips from General Motors to Tim Hortons, and lesser financial powerhouses such as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats football team, are turning to Disney trainers and seminars to learn what customer service really means, according to Monday's Globe and Mail On my one visit to Disneyland, I received an un...
But in order for the Gospel to begin to change anything in our secular culture, I suggest that Christians must find ways to convince others of how great our sin and misery are God's justice, mercy, and love can have no significance for a culture that denies human sinfulness ...
A Christian novel? Its characters are far too flawed, the story far too complex, and its threads too loose and frayed to fit into what publishers traditionally place in this category Much of it is focused on the implications of Pentecostalism on the church, the state, and the economy—sociological ta...
Quota is the key to the supply-management system Quota and the supply-management controls have produced an artificially inflated market, one in which the prices of cheese, chicken, and the like cost Canadians nearly $5-billion a year, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Devel...