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Likewise, a foreign policy driven by national interest, and so-called shared Canadian values, also is a grand vision Foreign affairs is one portfolio this government will not (cannot) download, and has demonstrated, via the shuffling in of Minister Baird, a strong potential for defining a new Canadi...
The difference in emphasis is between the renewal of hearts and the renewal of structures; conversion of hearts vs ...
As the Finance Committee considers how best to incentivize charities, they need to be particularly attentive to small charities, given the trends that are putting them at a particular disadvantage With each focusing on the needs of their local communities, a particularly charity may be less diverse ...
"Newcomers—almost four and a half million, a third from Asia, more than half from Mexico and Latin America—have created in Los Angeles a massive religious infrastructure similar to the network of Catholic parishes and Jewish synagogues that once anchored life in immigrant landing zones such as New Y...
18:6)! The kingdom of God revolves around children One of Wolterstorff's exhortations in this "word" for seminary graduates is that they work with and care for children ...
Of Gods and Men is a violent film, but it is so good because the conflict—the seed of drama—is not one between men with guns, but within the hearts of men who self-consciously exist to love God and love their neighbours, and they do so within an institution dedicated to that task ...
While I don't want to make a direct connection, there is a phenomenon which, I think, shows that the hard sciences might be doing a better job at expanding dialogue than the humanities For one reason or another—you see it even on this blog—the humanities tend to come in for greater scrutiny than the...
Certain goods in the State of the Union were transparently obvious: "We know a good teacher can increase the lifetime income of a classroom by over $250,000," the President said President Obama opened and closed last night's State of the Union with a series of auspicious military metaphors ...
Having been a small child in the last years before Canada dumped its red Royal Mailboxes into the dustbin of history, I have always considered the British Crown a useless necessity Yet anyone who has brush history knows aed up against the leasts a matter of fact that for more than 400 years, the Bri...
Because, maybe the budding writer is in fact destined to be a great writer, but there's a long stretch of preparation ahead, first Second: The other piece of the article that I quote in the post says that there's actually a third piece, something that Buechner leaves out—our skills ...
He said that while he felt the book was right to point out that our culture is indeed rife with lies and half-truths, he ended up by saying: "so I was speaking to a friend of mine over the holidays about Marilyn Chandler McEntyre's book Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies ...
But what Paul Collier calls the resource curse, and what other economists call Dutch disease, faces Kazakhs still: their challenge will be exploiting Kazakh oil for not just a city to be proud of, an urban dream that points to hope, but something that realizes that hope in a sustained way ...
The Bible is, as Marilynne Robinson notes, "the book of books," and interest in Scriptures, even if they are understood allusions, ...
In fact, we can affirm that reality is positive because (any given event) is not the last word of Christ ...
In other words (and in some contradiction to the title of his blog post), it's not so much that we ought to "forget" our passion as that we ought to recognize that our vocation lies at the intersection of our passion, our skills, and the big problems that the world has ...