A short history lesson by David Frum is my gift to you on this Christ-tide morning. Christ-tide? Read the piece: http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/issuesideas/story.html?id=44a5695d-acbd-4f40-83b2-0e4266e90430
Posts from ‘December, 2006’
Choice, Belief, and the Necessity of Hell
As far as believing in hell, whether you believe it is a literal, physical place of torment or a state of absolute alienation from God, it seems to me to be a necessity of logic. I feel as CS Lewis did in that if there was one idea, one doctrine I could delete from Christianity, [...]
I Dream in Movies
I have a habit of envisioning my life from a bird’s eye view. I catch myself viewing my life in third person, as if in a dream – watching myself, simultaneously in control and predestined. After all, if its predestined then someone must already know, like the scriptwriter or director, even if they’ve kept the [...]
Mornings at Our House
It is 6:30am and I am about to go to work. I wait at the door for a moment and hope Olivia comes running down. Sometimes she peeks around the corner slowly and inquisitively and if she sees me there she comes running full tilt. I get the excited hug at the end of my [...]
Who are YOU to decide?
It seems sometimes in our democracy addicted society that we believe absolutely that a group of like-minded individuals will always come up with a more comprehensive, well-tempered solution to a problem than any one individual within that group. I have recently seen the opposite in action. During a desert survival simulation in a leadership training [...]
