November 1, 1999 Airmen live on, in story and legend

'perished as though they had never been' IN THE ENGLISH VILLAGE of Lane End, 30 miles from London, I recently dedicated the village's new granite war memorial. And what was I doing there? The parish had invited...

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October 1, 1999 God, you know me, I am yours

'Who am I?' A GREAT TEACHER of the history of religion once identified the question "Who am I?" as the first and most fundamental religious question. It sums up a host of other smaller questions, "Where did I come...

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September 1, 1999 Finding magic in the cathedral

'le chateau, Opa!' EMMA AND I were walking in the park by Holy Rosary Cathedral in Regina, and she pointed to the towers of the cathedral, tall twin spires that mark the western skyline of the city, and said in French, her...

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June 1, 1999 Taking time to see life at a walking pace

`With practice I'll do it in 25 minutes' YEARS AGO friends of ours bought a house and we went to visit them in their new surroundings. They had moved to a location nearer to where they both worked, and I observed...

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May 1, 1999 Words of life on tools of death

"'Happy Easter' graffiti" HAPPY EASTER is a greeting that we Western Christians have used already this year, and that Orthodox Christians share later in the year. (In fact, we could still be...

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April 1, 1999 Our infrastructure rooted in tradition

'What's the holdup?' IN SUNNY APRIL it's hard to remember that my city had a couple of weeks in January that brought the place to a standstill more than once. Two heavy snowfalls, with smaller storms...

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March 1, 1999 Everyone created good by God

I RECENTLY ACCEPTED an invitation to appear on a daytime interview on a new local TV station of Christian fundamentalist orientation. The invitation said I could choose my own topic. That is so different from interview shows, that I should have smelled a rat from the beginning.

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January 1, 1999 A mountain pass leads to peace

'The road less travelled, and how!?'

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December 1, 1998 None of us is a stereotype to God

I SOMETIMES FIND driving in Britain stressful. This summer I dealt with not only the usual Yorkshire sheep, but once with a horse, galloping riderless, wide-eyed and frantic, the wrong way on a motorway.

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November 1, 1998 Even traps may allow for growth

`I'm a trapped Anglican.' THESE ARE WORDS which a friend recently used in describing to me his situation at the moment. We live in different parts of the country and had not met for a number of years, so we were catching up. ...

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