August 30, 2006 By choosing to forgive, we choose not to perpetuate cycle of revenge

On Sept. 11th, 2001, five years ago, I was in my office just three blocks south of the World Trade Center site when I heard a loud crack. Once it had been determined that a plane had collided with the World Trade Center towers, I...

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December 1, 2005 Dreaming of a simple Christmas

Excited about celebrating Christmas but can’t face the prospect of another round of shopping and eating frenzy?

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November 1, 2005 'It is out of love for these people that we watch with them'

It is fall in Kabul. The stars are bright in the dome of the sky, and the city lights twinkle in the distance. I gaze at these lights from the steps of the Pastor's Offices tent inside the compound known as Camp Julien. ...

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November 1, 2004 I remember ... my community

In the early morning hours of Nov. 11, 2003, my eyes opened to the sight of the room I had lived in for the past four months. I had awakened in a small Canadian Forces Camp in the Arabian Gulf and to another day of serving as an...

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June 1, 2004 It is more blessed to give than to receive

What would you do if someone gave you $100 and told you to spend it doing good for others? Parishioners at All Saints church in Waterloo, Ont., faced this challenge when their rector, Canon Robin Lyons, told them during...

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December 1, 2003 Advent is a time to quiet one’s soul, to sit with God

I mean to get my Christmas shopping done in a week or two. It usually takes about five hours, tops. Some clothes for my husband, computer games and CDs for the kids, a couple of minor things for friends. I'm knitting socks for...

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November 1, 2003 Remember ... to learn to forget to be selfish

Being asked to write a reflective remembrance article, just four days before the end of my six-month tour as the senior chaplain for ROTO 12 (the 12th rotation of troops for the task force in Bosnia and Herzegovina , known...

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May 1, 2003 ‘Something is very wrong here’

What do I do (what do you do?) when I realize (when you realize) that a relationship, a touching, an intimacy - which is experienced by me (or you) as grace-giving and filled with love - is for another Christian, equally...

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April 1, 2002 A Lenten Rendering

re'nder v.t. 1. Give in return (render thanks, good for evil). 2. (arch.) Give back; hand over, deliver, give up, surrender, (render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's). 3. Pay (tribute etc.), show (obedience etc.), give...

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December 1, 2001 Life Bread

I. Incarnation and Nativity It is no accident the cradle was a feed bin, not a child-safe, government-approved and downy nest. Perfection did not choose to feed us with a silver spoon, for where's the mystery in that? A byre,...

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