The Intersection of Faith and Culture
“You up? Feeling frisky?” When I was a kid — nine or maybe ten — my Sunday school class was taught by Ellen, an inordinately tall woman with fat elbows and a bowl haircut. She wore oblong glasses with rust-tinted lenses and highwater pleated pants. Ellen was what my […]
Sitting on a street corner you pass daily there’s someone curled up trying to sleep. Outside the grocery store you frequent every weekend there’s a woman siting with a sign asking for spare change. There are an estimated 150,000 homeless people in Canada, 65,000 of whom are youth between the […]
family meals: (verb) to sit down to eat with people who may or may not be genetically related to you, but whom you have worked with to prepare food from scratch (more or less), and will take time to engage with as you eat and clean up together. I wonder […]
Pacific Theatre’s latest play Leave of Absence opens Friday. About the show: Blake is an audacious young girl who sees life differently from her peers at her Catholic high school: while “Our Father” is lost on her, she finds solace in God as Mother; she sees the holy in everything from […]
Why the story of a College football player’s fake girlfriend made headline news last week remains a mystery. According to reports, Manti Teo’s girlfriend Lennay Kekua had tragically passed away of cancer complications on the same day that his grandmother passed and hours before he was supposed to play in […]
I have always loved the look of sweet notes on chalkboards but can never commit to painting a whole wall! So here’s a fun twist that’s as easy as 1-2-3. No really, there are only 3 steps to this project and I am quite smitten with how they turned out! […]
