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SACRAMENT AND SACRIFICE
By Jared Tomlinson Some evening, a few years ago, I was walking out of a theatre in downtown Toronto with a good friend of mine. As we made our way to our regular post-movie haunt, a bar on Queen West, our conversation drifted easily away from whatever we had just …
A LIBERAL ARTS EDUCATION
Recently, while I was touring a certain University with some of our students, the tour guide mentioned, “When I first came to this University, I didn’t know what a liberal arts college was. Since then I have learned that the a liberal arts college requires me to take classes such …
NOW THESE THREE REMAIN
by Father John Boonzaaijer Stone pillars in the little English church bordered the Norman apse, surrounded the altar, and encircled the choir stalls, where two dozen young souls, from St. Andrew’s Academy and Good Shepherd school, nervously held their music, ready to sing. Silent tombstones checkered the floor. A chalice and paten, worn …
FRUITFUL RELATIONSHIPS
I’m single, in my thirties, so I think about and study the marriages around me with perhaps more attention than other groups of people would. There was an angry boy in my class when I was in grade school, whose parents seemed never to get along. I don’t know if …
HOUSTON, WE HAVE LIFT OFF
Space exploration is back in the news. On August 22, SpaceX’s Falcon 9-R exploded moments after lift off. On October 31, the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo also exploded moments after its release from its mother ship, killing the test pilot. On December 6, NASA successfully launched its Orion rocket, the next …
INCARNATIONAL EDUCATION
The question of how we ought to educate seems, paradoxically, both a hot topic and one that no one really wants to discuss deeply. A few pithy phrases or digs at the public educational establishment down the street often suffice for many Christians. Yet this is a fundamental issue lying …
FACING UP TO DUMBNESS
The battle over what fills my iPod is not nearly as important as what fills my mind, but they are closely related. C.S. Lewis wisely observed, “Unless the measuring rod is independent of the thing being measured, we can do no measuring.” This is routinely applied in science and business, …