The Intersection of Faith and Culture
Chinua Achebe died on March 21 at the age of 82. The news of his death echoed across the world because even though he was considered the ‘grandfather of African literature,’ his writing crossed ethnic and cultural boundaries like few before him. I had not heard of Chinua Achebe before a friend […]
By now, you are probably well aware that Rick Warren’s son, Matthew, took his own life in their family home last week after years of struggle with depression and mental illness. In a letter to his church, Warren described Matthew’s final day: “In spite of America’s best doctors, meds, counselors, […]
There are two types of travel hangovers. The first is the sluggish feeling you get when you return to real life after a vacation, and the second, the type I am more concerned with here, is the overwhelming feeling that you get when you realize that you do not have […]
The recent Maclean’s article entitled “The Future of Jobs in Canada – Why Canada doesn’t work“ by Chris Sorensen helpfully described the future of employment in Canada, but in doing so it reminded me of a well-known issue that all developed societies face: that education and the workforce do not correlate as […]
I was never very concerned about where the Internet was until I was unable to find it. I assumed, like many people, that the Internet was an invisible force field of information that had enveloped the world because the Internet is, as they say, world-wide. However, I have found that […]
I was attending the Evensong service at Westminster Abbey on February 11th when I first heard the news that Pope Benedict XVI announced an early retirement from the papacy. My immediate reaction was a mixture of curiosity and embarrassment. I was curious to know what led Pope Benedict to become the […]