The joy of reading is a quest for learning
I think of what Saint Augustine said: “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
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Hamilton Spectator
Lots to learn about life, death, from developing world
We believe in Heaven not through religious instruction but rather because of an instinct that’s hard-wired into us, like a child in the womb who senses some grand world outside his dark closet.
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A motherhood issue: surviving birth
An open letter to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper about maternal mortality.
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The JFK-Obama-Messiah factor
In Berlin, both presidents had watershed moments, and both are revered.
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At some point, there’ll be a new Earth
OK, so what if Chicken Little was right? Chicken Little is that bird who got hit on the head by a falling acorn and then ran around screaming “The sky is falling!” He got all his forest friends in an alarmist tizzy and, on their way to tell the king, they were summarily fooled and eaten by that Foxy Loxy.
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‘He shoots! He scores!’ – Uganda-style
While here in the heart of Africa, I think of Canada often. Fall is no exception.
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Orphans want to be loved, wherever they are
It’s hard to know most days what might go through the mind of any three-year-old, let alone an orphan from Africa.
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For dads and dad-dads everywhere
If I have one urgent piece of practical advice for young men today, it’s this: Look forward with great hope to the day you marry and have children.
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