April 1, 2008 ‘I looked into his eyes’

On a recent evening I sat amid  a packed house at St. Thomas Church in Toronto to hear Lt. General Romeo Dallaire deliver the inaugural lecture of the Gene Stewart Lecture with the theme “Repairing the World.” General...

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April 1, 2008 What is a Bible worth?

In recognition of my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary, our municipality gave them a Bible. The gift was befitting because they were known in their close-knit farming community as regular churchgoers. They were touched by the...

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April 1, 2008 Going by the Book (for a year)

A. J. Jacobs describes himself as obsessive-compulsive, and proves it to be so by relating how he disinfects the playground swings before his toddler son uses them. He is also an accomplished practitioner of the literary genre of...

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