Hopeful News stories
Two stories from the Reuters news service, reprinted in today’s Edmonton Journal, should bring a measure of hope to our tattered world. (These are Grow Me...
Category: Religion
Caught in the 1971 Saskatoon Revival
In 1971 there was a Christian revival in Saskatchewan. I was caught in it, swept up in it like a broken straw in a prairie gust. My uncle, his two sons and I dr...
The Church, Feminism, Dorothy Sayers
My mother isn’t a feminist. She was born a few years after women were given the right to vote, that is, when women became “legally human.” (Ch...
Be with those who help your being
Yesterday I again came upon the thirteenth century Sufi, Jalal al-Din Rumi. My encounter with him was through the book "The Islamist"–which is E...