Hamilton Spectator
Judgment is good – indeed, is needed
Cultural relativism can blind us to warped thinking and behaviour.
Read More And lo! A child is saved from a brutal death
(Hamilton Spectator – Saturday, December 24, 2011)
KAMPALA, UGANDA — It’s late at night at the Ugandan-Kenyan border and a little Ugandan boy is about to disappear forever.
Moses Kaloulou, all of seven years old, is crying hysterically. Not that he knows what’s going to happen, that he’ll likely soon die at the hands, and knife blade, of a witch doctor. All he knows is that it’s late — about midnight now — and very dark, and that some hours ago he was taken by strange men.
Read More A few dollars changes lives in Uganda
Government education is a sham but top students are heroes.
Read More If the youth could know; if the old could do
Old age is not for wimps. We approach it, even from a distance, with trepidation. It’s like your second childhood.
Read More From here to Chautauqua to the world
Hamilton’s Dr. Jean Chamberlain Froese was invited to speak at a venerable institution.
Read More Don’t listen to the voices
Technology tempts us, lures us, hooks us. And too often, we’re the poorer for it.
Read More Hands across the oceans
Continents apart, generations and circumstance between them, hands always tell the stories.
Read More Yemen through the looking glass
As the country’s president seems about to topple, a writer remembers times of living dangerously.
Read More Africa changing — in some places
The revolutionary spirit sweeping North Africa isn’t coming to Black Africa — yet.
Read More By losing fun, we risk much more
When you get out in the fresh air of the world, you’re awakened to how Western countries have lost it, this ability to run barefoot in the grass.
Read More 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.”
Read More 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.
Read More A motherhood issue: surviving birth
An open letter to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper about maternal mortality.
Read More The JFK-Obama-Messiah factor
In Berlin, both presidents had watershed moments, and both are revered.
Read More 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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