| April 9th, 2004 What Happens When Teachers of Faith Don't Know? The small, white-haired woman leading the discussion hesitated.She coughed and bit her lip but managed to read the information on the paper clutched in her shaking hand. She ... |
| August 19th, 2003 Discovering Our Powerlessness Without Electricity We were at the third gas station before we knew we were screwed ."No gas-no power!" a red-faced woman with a thick Newfoundland accent shouted as we pulled the car up to the pumps. Her ... |
| August 17th, 2003 Canada Brings Gay Marriage to the World - Is the World Ready? By all accounts, Gay Pride Week in Toronto was different this year. Normally, the festivities draw thousands of tourists to the capital of Ontario and the annual parade?that took place on Sunday June 29?can attract ... |
| August 14th, 2003 The Divine Possibilities of SCUBA for Two We were on our honeymoon when Steve suggested I take a dive. SCUBA diving's great, he explained. "The water, the fish-you'll love it!"I wasn't so sure. In all my years of ... |
| April 12th, 2003 Scripture Reflections for Sundays in Lent Readings: Jeremiah 31:31-34 Hebrews 5:7-9 John 12:20-33I live in an ugly building. It's a brown and teal low-rise that winds around a parking lot like a drunken staircase flipped on its side. Not surprisingly, the building was constructed ... |
| April 3rd, 2003 The Spiritual Value of Bitching to God The Bible's full of angry people. Noah's mad at his sons, Moses is mad at the Hebrews, and Mrs. Job, after a day of awful luck, tells her husband to "curse God ... |
| March 19th, 2003 The 26-Year-Old Buddhist Nun and Activist Won't Be Silent Type Ngawang Sangdrol's name into any Internet search engine and prepare to be bombarded. A quick Google hunt reveals over 2800 web pages carrying her name?with good reason. Ngawang Sangdrol, a Tibetan Buddhist nun and ... |
| February 18th, 2003 What We Needed to Do for Love and Money Two weeks before our wedding, Steve and I bought life insurance. Our insurance agent was impressed. He claimed that most young couples weren't that responsible. I agreed and stated, "They should ... |
| January 28th, 2003 The awkward relationship between Christianity and the earth When I first learned that a possible Hebrew-to-English translation of Genesis 1:28's command for humans to ‘subdue the earth' is, literally, ‘rape the earth,' I cheered. At the ... |
| January 27th, 2003 Living Side-by-Side with Your Pets I had the good end of the emergency. A friend's husband needed surgery and her dog needed a sitter. I promptly offered my services. Quincy, a mellow Lab/Beagle mix, is a good dog—a 30-pound sausage ... |
