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Ethical paralysis
Feb 5, 2012 / 5:00 am
Chuck Colson, in one of his Break Point articles on (Jan 11th, 2012) shared about a discussion Dr. Stephen Anderson, a philosophy teacher at A.B. Lucas Secondary School in Ontario, had with his students. He primed their minds with a gruesome picture of Bibi Aisha, the teenage wife of an abusive...
Wrong in itself
Jan 22, 2012 / 5:00 am
The abortion debate continues to heat up, and the fire is showing up on both sides of the 49th parallel. It has engrafted itself into both the Canadian and American political process because there remains a conviction in the conscience of many North Americans that aborting a life is “wrong...
Canada: On the incline or decline?
Jan 15, 2012 / 5:00 am
There was a time when, according to Edward Gibbon’s history of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, “Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth and the most civilized portion of mankind.” It had a powerful and unified system of laws and manners that...
The immigration tragedy
Dec 18, 2011 / 5:00 am
Federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney was on the hot seat this week regarding his review of immigration laws. First, he invoked a new regulation requiring new Canadian women of Muslim descent to show their faces while taking the oath of citizenship. This requirement was not...
Rise of militant secularism
Dec 4, 2011 / 5:00 am
A few weeks ago, Cardinal Raymond Burke, head of the Vatican’s highest court, noted that “secularism has become militant.” He conveyed that he could envision a time when the Catholic Church would come under persecution just by “announcing her own teaching” which...
Conservatism
Nov 20, 2011 / 5:00 am
By nature, education, and political persuasion, I have always been a big "C" Conservative (Con). Wikipedia tells us that Conservatives carry an historic commonality. They “believe that government has a role in encouraging or enforcing what they consider traditional...
Poppycock
Nov 11, 2011 / 5:43 am
Remembrance Day - or for our fellow French Canadians - Jour du Souvenir. It is observed on November 11th to recall the official end of World War I in 1918. Wikipedia notes that hostilities formally ended "at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month" of 1918 with the...
Viewing life upside down
Oct 16, 2011 / 5:00 am
Whether we like to admit it or not, every one of us has a world view. That personal perspective on life flows from beliefs and values that have been inbred or imbibed from influences all about us. Our world view becomes the window through which we look and through which we interpret...
Students of change
Oct 2, 2011 / 5:00 am
George Barna, a leading researcher, author and sociologist, said in his book Futurecast, “There are three kinds of people when it comes to the future: those who watch what happens, those who will make it happen, and those who wondered what happened.” I think that we all...
Maternity Leave for Abortionists
Sep 18, 2011 / 5:00 am
Every expectant mother is extremely grateful for policies instituted by our Canadian government to allow them to take leave from work with pay so that they can attend to the critical upbringing of their baby. When they see pictures of women carrying babies on their backs while working...
Pedophile Rights?
Sep 11, 2011 / 5:00 am
A few years ago I heard George Grant address leaders on moral issues. He spoke of examples in history when a generation rejected certain behaviours when they felt evil had gone too far: “There are times when evil has progressed to such a point that even evil men find it too evil...
Jack Layton's Canada
Aug 28, 2011 / 5:00 am
Photo: Contributed - (Flickr user, vapourtrails) August 22nd was a sad day for so many Canadians. Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party (the Official Opposition), passed away after a fight against what is being called, “an undisclosed...
The Ripple Effect
Aug 21, 2011 / 5:00 am
Photo: Contributed - (Flickr user, hiddenpower) I am sure that most everyone reading this article has at one point in their life picked up a stone, thrown it into a glassy looking lake, and watched the ripple effect as it spread to different parts of...
The Rise of Virtual Culture
Jul 31, 2011 / 5:00 am
I have been in Taiwan for nearly two weeks, speaking to church, business and education leaders about the five most dangerous trends facing us in culture. Whether we like it or not, we are going to have to familiarize ourselves with terms like “the digital world, globalization,...
Canada and the digital world
Jul 17, 2011 / 5:00 am
I just found out that I am in juxtaposition to the Digital World. They call me a Digital Immigrant, born before the existence of digital technology, and one who has adopted it to some degree in his later years. Fortunately, not all Digital Immigrants are technologically inept. I can...
Are Canadians Prepared?
Jul 10, 2011 / 5:00 am
As a minister, I have watched many families weather the psychological storm that has been blowing globally since 9/11: nations defaulting on loans, financial institutions collapsing, international corporations filing for bankruptcy protection, home foreclosures, terrorism invading...
Crass Consumerism – Branded for Life
Jun 26, 2011 / 5:00 am
We all live in a consumer-based society. Many in our culture have bought into the values of materialism - hook, line and sinker. In philosophy, the theory of materialism holds that the only thing that exists is matter and, therefore, the only thing that really matters is the material...
If Lord Stanley could see us now
Jun 19, 2011 / 5:00 am
If the caption for this column, “Oh! Canada!” was ever apropos, it is now. We hear of rioting in Syria, demonstrations in the streets of Cairo, protests and physical injury on the avenues of Taiz, Yemen, but looting and burning on Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC? Oh!...
Global warming or global warning?
Jun 5, 2011 / 5:00 am
I love my nation of Canada. I have lived in four of her provinces – born in New Brunswick, raised in Nova Scotia, trained in British Columbia, and cultured in Quebec. I have criss-crossed the country numerous times, by car, air and rail. It’s a beautiful land, home to a great...
G8 grandstanding or grand scheming
May 29, 2011 / 5:00 am
I have visited Israel a number of times. I was there when the Muslim Ramadan was celebrated. I have stood beside Jews praying at the Wailing Wall at the foot of the western side of the Temple Mount. I prayed with Christian believers in the garden at the foot of the Mount of...
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