March 1, 2004 Andrew Hutchison values the dialogue

"It's ... doubting faith -- or faithful doubt -- that I want to dialogue with here. I think I understand it. It's where I live too, most of the time." So says Douglas John Hall, professor emeritus of McGill University. ...

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March 1, 2004 David Crawley continues the quest

Annie Dillard is my favourite contemporary writer. Her work is impossible to categorize. She has an astounding eye for the intricacies of nature, but she is not a biologist. Her work is full of fascinating tidbits of history...

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March 1, 2004 Terry Finlay sees hope in God’s love

I understand that, as the congregation left Canterbury Cathedral after the enthronement service for Archbishop Rowan Williams, each person was presented with a copy of Ponder These Things: Praying with Icons of the Virgin,...

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March 1, 2004 Genocide in Rwanda happened to all of us

I have long wanted to meet Lt.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire. Our paths briefly crossed in October of 1993. I was standing in front of the Mille Collines Hotel in Kigali, Rwanda, where he had just arrived as head of the United Nations...

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February 1, 2004 Believing there is a better way

At the end of this month it will be Lent again and, as always, I am haunted by that question in the Book of Prophet Micah (6:8b) "Â?and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk...

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January 1, 2004 Of old and new gospel paradigms

Every few centuries the Christian community convulses in a period of acute upheaval. It is called Reformation and it would appear that today we are well launched into such a period. It began in the mid-twentieth century (Vatican...

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December 1, 2003 A panoramic view of the King James Bible’s origins

After reading two books on the creation of the King James Bible, the influence of which has followed English speaking peoples around the world, I had an overwhelming feeling of that sentiment expressed in older baptismal...

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November 1, 2003 ‘Who do you say that I am’

With advent and Christmas approaching, we have reached that time of year when secular commercial interests will again bombard the public with unimagined fantasies to celebrate. Churches will engage in the excitement by...

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November 1, 2003 Special Interest

Pacifism is not being passive Christians have never agreed on what should be the Christian response to war but many believe that the gospel calls for an intentional pacifism. Dale W. Brown, a noted Anabaptist church...

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November 1, 2003 Stories for wee readers

Very small children love stories and also love a book to call their own. Bible for Me by Andy Holmes, illustrated by Ralph Voltz (Tommy Nelson, $15.99), presents 12 biblical stories simply and vividly, printed in a...

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