Have Your Cake and Eat it Too

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is not a cookbook.

Granted, food is mentioned in it. The pages recount Harry’s experience with delicious brews of Butterbeer and the unexpected flavours of Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans.

But Harry...

You matter to God.

Today half-a-million people – the same number as there are residents of Vancouver – will descend upon downtown for a party and spectacle on a size and scale unlike anything else. 

The Prime Minister is here. Downtown Roads will be closed for three stra...

Good Friday is about Good News.

Children are gifts to families and the Church. Jesus loves and welcomes children, teaching His followers, “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God. Truly, I say to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like...

Every premise of the Santa story is ridiculous, and any detective can quickly gather the facts and conclude the whole thing is a hoax. Worse than that, the idea of Santa manipulates children’s behaviour – forcing them be nice, not naughty – and teaching them Christmas...

Today we remember.

Remembrance is about memory: it is about looking back and considering with gratitude the sacrifice of so many who gave so much, so you and I may live today in a nation of peace, of multi-culturalism and immigration, of acceptance and goodwill.

But reme...

The Shock and Sting of Death 

A prominent American pastor – Eugene Peterson, died today. He was 85, and suffering from dementia and heart failure in hospice care. It was not a surprise, and yet death it seems is always a shock.

Death intrudes uninvited into our lives. De...

By the time you read this the celebrated scientist David Goodall chose to end his life through physician-assisted suicide. “I am not happy, I want to die.” he told reporters.

Goodall deemed his life worthless– more a burden to him than a blessing. Is he wrong?

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I am ant...