Dear Friends,
This week I introduce you to the first guest columnist
of this year 2006. Each year I try to identify four
unique voices of those who labor in …
There were many issues raised at the confirmation
hearings on the nomination of Samuel Alito to serve on
the Supreme Court. Yet only one of them, the issue of
…
Perhaps the second silliest thing that religious
institutions and its leaders can do is to pretend that
they know what will happen after one dies and then to
…
The Senate of the United States has recently engaged
in a protracted process before voting on the
President’s nomination of one to sit on the nation’s
highest court. …
This week, I begin a series of columns on the claims made in the
New Testament that Jesus of Nazareth had the power to raise the dead back …
Last week we began a series on the gospel narratives that purport to
show that Jesus had the power to raise the dead. There are only three
accounts …
The Christian Church has just completed the
celebration of the Twelve Days of Christmas. It may
come as a big surprise for most people to be told that
…
I have long admired the United Church of Canada. Born in
the prairies of our northern neighbor in the 1920s by a
merger primarily of the Presbyterian and …
We human beings live consciously inside a medium called
time. We experience everything in life as having a beginning
and an ending. We count our age with annual …
Last week we looked at the New Testament’s portrait of the mother of Jesus
and the Virgin Birth. It is scant, late developing material filled with
mythological details. …