Hamilton Spectator

Judgment is good – indeed, is needed

Cultural relativism can blind us to warped thinking and behaviour.
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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.
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A few dollars changes lives in Uganda

Government education is a sham but top students are heroes.
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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.
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From here to Chautauqua to the world

Hamilton’s Dr. Jean Chamberlain Froese was invited to speak at a venerable institution.
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Don’t listen to the voices

Technology tempts us, lures us, hooks us. And too often, we’re the poorer for it.
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Hands across the oceans

Continents apart, generations and circumstance between them, hands always tell the stories.
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Yemen through the looking glass

As the country’s president seems about to topple, a writer remembers times of living dangerously.
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Africa changing — in some places

The revolutionary spirit sweeping North Africa isn’t coming to Black Africa — yet.
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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.
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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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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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