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Oct 30, 202112 min read
Covid Potpourri: Absurdity, Absence and … “You Gotta be Kidding!”
Absurdity Some 6,607 km away, in the state of Bavaria, in southern Germany, is the longest operating concentration camp (March 1933 to...
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Sep 27, 202111 min read
The World is a Ship on Its Passage Out
If you have never read Herman Melville’s ‘Moby Dick’, treat yourself. Find a copy on Amazon and ‘waste’ a few hours with a good read –...
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Aug 29, 202110 min read
A Friendship Lesson
Maybe you have watched that movie classic, It’s a Wonderful Life. Christmas seems to be a good time to watch it — again! Dubbed by the...
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Jul 30, 20219 min read
The Sophistical Pentecostal
Bob Dylan, who at one time scandalized the media with his religious conversion in a Tucson hotel to evangelical Christianity (It was...
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Jun 20, 202112 min read
Tripping Over the Obvious
After 11 days of fighting, 4,300 + launched missile barrages on Jerusalem and Tel Aviv from the Hamas controlled Gaza strip, and at least...
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May 24, 202112 min read
Shedding the Myths Around God’s Will
In a previous blog, ‘The Cosmic Search for God’s Will’, I looked to distinguish between God’s sovereign and moral will and offered five...
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Apr 25, 202111 min read
The Cosmic Search for God’s Will
Some folks make finding the will of God a demanding task. Brings to mind the famous song from the musical ‘Hair’ . . . “When the Moon is...
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Apr 3, 20218 min read
And the Earth Shook: From a Funeral to a Dinner Party
After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent...
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Mar 17, 202110 min read
“I Come Not to Praise Coates, but to Bury Him”
OK, so I might as well jump in with both feet and see if I can swim the shark infested Evangelical waters of public opinion, without the...
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Feb 21, 202110 min read
It’s Black History Month: Do Yourself a Favor and Learn!
I am not a fan of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. There, I said it! Now I realize that I am not ‘woke’ like so many others around...
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Feb 7, 202110 min read
The Great-er Reset: Reversing the Tower of Babel
I thought that ‘Existential’, that great prize-winning choice for the 2019 ‘Word of the Year’ was as cool as it got. I was clearly wrong....
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Jan 16, 20217 min read
When You Pray to the Flying Spaghetti ‘god’— Don’t Expect Results!
Well, it seems that ‘Dumb’ just got ‘Dumber’. I’m talking about political correctness of course … although one wonders out loud whether...
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Jan 1, 20217 min read
Is There a Doctor in the House?
Well, no doubt you’ve heard by now. The Wall Street Journal took the in-coming first lady Jill to task for wishing to be addressed as...
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Dec 12, 20209 min read
Christians and the Overton Window: "How You Get What You Don’t Want"
OK, so the contentious election South has come and gone. Will it be Canada’s turn next? Hopefully now we can expect to see less...
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Nov 15, 202011 min read
Navigating a Crisis of Faith!
C’mon. Fess up! Have you ever had expectations about God and been disappointed over His perceived failure? My hand is up! Regrettably,...
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Oct 7, 20208 min read
Progressives, Universities and the Silence of the Lambs!
My granddaughter graduated from university this year! And I’m thrilled to report that even though Covid-19 cancelled graduation, she was...
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Sep 8, 20208 min read
God: The Popular Scapegoat for Our Sin
In recent months the blame game has been in full swing. There’s the Corona virus blame game (seems everyone is an epidemiologist) ......
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Aug 4, 20208 min read
Caesar, God and Covid-19
For whatever reason, 2 Timothy 3 has been on my mind this last little while; in particular that beginning warning that says, “Don’t be...
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Jul 2, 20209 min read
Allowing the Past to Echo in Our Future
In my younger days I attended a traditional, mainline church – but in the early 1960s the arrival of the New Curriculum into the...
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Jun 30, 202012 min read
Politics, Religion and Christians: A Canada Day Musing!
For some years, my wife and I lived in the United States while I was attending graduate school. Sometimes when we went to an...
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