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Lingering on the edge of forgetfulness

(Christian Week – Friday, August 15, 2014)

HAMILTON, CANADA ✦ The sad truth of the matter is that when we stop reading the Bible with any faith or confidence, when we stop discussing it at dinner with our children, when we stop wrestling with it in our meeting places and home gatherings and while lying in bed, we’re no longer connected to the grand sweep of it, to history, that is His Story, which is also our story.

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Faraway home is where the heart is

Leave a Comment / Hamilton Spectator, Newspaper columns / June 15, 2013 / 2013, African culture, Canadian culture, Elizabeth Froese, Froese biography, homesickness, Third Culture kids / 4 minutes of reading

(The Hamilton Spectator – Saturday, June 15, 2013)

It’s 10 years later, dear Elizabeth, and it’s true: Home is where your heart is. You’ve said it now in plain words. Your heart, with your imagination, is in our African home.

This is what I know you mean when you say with sorry sadness, “Daddy, the roads are too smooth here. Everything’s too perfect. I’d rather be in a place where the roads are bumpy but more interesting.”

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People of faith must come out of the closet

Leave a Comment / London Free Press, Newspaper columns / June 28, 1997 / 1997, Canadian culture, Christianity, Froese biography, hockey, Ken Dryden, Paul Henderson, spirituality / 5 minutes of reading

I have had an opportunity to see the recent move of 33 rooming-house residents from Toronto to Aylmer, a transfer equated by some as Toronto “dumping its trash” into rural Ontario, through the eyes of personal experience. My family owned and operated a private rest home for the better part of 20 years, with tenants, patients as we called them, very similar to those at the Aylmer home run by Anne Borden Maxwell.

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