The Intersection of Faith and Culture
Thirty kilometers south of Kigali, where the towering hills of Rwanda’s capitol city give way to the softer hills of the countryside, sits the small town of Nyamata. The main road of the town is lined with orchard trees and retail shops that give it a lively atmosphere without being […]
It is not uncommon for me to log onto Facebook and find friends who have posted the most recent viral Fox News gaffe. Nine times out of ten the gaffe is something that I have seen before — a news anchor putting their conservative foot in their mouth or a […]
My first reaction to learning that a Boston bombing movie was in the works was that it was too soon. It reeked of opportunism. It felt like a deliberate attempt to be the first to cash in on an event that captured the imaginations of most North Americans for the […]
Mike Carnegie is the assistant captain of the Calgary Roughnecks of the National Lacrosse League (NLL), but if you met him, you would never know. He rarely, if ever, speaks of his accomplishments — of which he has many, including a World Indoor Lacrosse Championship for Team Canada in 2010 […]
Does reading make us better people? Gregory Currie began the debate near the beginning of June when he wrote an essay in The New York Times arguing that although reading might make us morally better people, there is little evidence to support this belief. As Adam Gopnik once remarked in […]
Today’s Best Podcasts I am a podcast junkie. I love them. I have probably test-driven well over 30 podcasts over the years, keeping some and discarding the rest. This process has taught me the number one rule of listening to podcasts: never listen to a podcast unless you really want […]