by Graham Cotter | Apr 24, 2011
I was so happy when in the local news I saw pictures of the Youth for Christ practicing their dancing which they do in a regular way as part of their worship. I have tried with the not so young, some in Port Hope, some in Colborne and Grafton, and some back in...
by Graham Cotter | Apr 22, 2011
Sir Peter Medawar was one of those scientists whose work has affected people all over the world. A specialist in biology, he developed theory and practice in immunology of great value, when we think of the transplants which have saved people’s lives and fortunes. The...
by Graham Cotter | Apr 18, 2011
In an analysis of the creative process Michael Polanyi finds that art, science, and indeed spirituality, arise from the depths of the self with a kind of autonomy and otherness, and are marked with a sense of the wholeness and beauty of what is accomplished. It is...
by Graham Cotter | Apr 11, 2011
We have a local man of otherwise exemplary life, who when asked the population of the village, began enumerating from memory the inhabitants of every house, street by street! As I said to an enthusiastic fellow preacher once, “You are not economical in how you spend...
by Graham Cotter | Apr 4, 2011
Alexander Graham Bell and his wife Mabel lost a baby boy at a time of great stress for the family. Alec Bell (as he was known) was deeply grieved, but accepted much self-blame for having been away at the time. Bell scarcely believed in God; perhaps Einstein’s God, for...
