Broken-ness, All Broken… Where’s the Joy?

The scene is northeastern Japan, aerial photos before - property, estate housing, industry, transportation, roads, aircraft, sea craft. Then move the cursor from right to left and there is after: some outlines remain, but a brown sludge has crept even up the...

A Three Year Old and Martin Amis

In the 2001 census analysis of religious groups in Ontario, the largest grouping is Roman Catholic; the second largest is “no religion.” How many of the “no religion” populace are deterred or disgusted by a blatant use of power, emotional and social, by institutional...

A Lent World

Whether or not we believe in God, we have a dawning understanding that the world we live in is on loan to us, and that if we do not treat it with care, we may lose it. There was an enthusiastic bishop preaching in St James’ Cathedral, saying how when he awoke on a...

Changes & Chances

Almost any talk of science and faith reveals that many people believe that these two ways of looking at reality are in conflict. This was not so in the days of the great philosopher René Descartes, or the great scientist, Isaac Newton. They believed that God was in...

Caution and Risk

The story of Jesus is the story of a man who risked his life for the sake of truth. His chief disciples were less committed to risk until he set the example. But there were least two senior members of the social establishment who urged caution in the community...