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All of the rhetoric around our faith is like chaff on wheat. Useful for a time, but eventually we have to thrash it off if we want to make bread.
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Restoring Our Own Fortunes
It isn`t God`s intervention that will change things. God doesn`t wave a magic wand and make it all better.
Continue readingA Harvest of Peace
The human tendency to focus on our superficial differences instead of our fundamental commonality is what enables violence, oppression, and exploitation, whether of individuals, groups, or the world around us.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity. – Leo Tolstoy Of course, the Golden Rule sprang to mind as soon as I saw this quote.
Continue readingFor New Years – Pledge to “Consider the Other”
Looking for a New Year’s Resolution that’s more challenging than quitting smoking? Healthier than eating vegetables? Better for the planet than walking to work? Take the “Consider the Other” Pledge.
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Living in faith calls us to a task that we must accomplish to honour those who have sacrificed their lives in armed conflict.
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Why shouldn’t God be zipping around Heaven on a rocket sled?? The “bearded guy on a cloud” is more than just Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel finger-pointer.
Continue readingI Bring a Sword?
Does Jesus’ comment in Matthew, “I bring not peace but a sword” mean that war is inevitable unless we all adopt a particular, Christian, religion? I don’t think so.
Continue readingSigning the Golden Rule Resolution
For those who have already signed the Golden Rule Resolution, sometimes more than once, my apologies. Before I had the system backup procedure figured out, I confess that I managed to lose the list of signatories. Soooooo…. if you could, … Continue reading
Ireland Park
Behind the Toronto Maliting Towers sits a memorial to the 38,000 Irish who arrived in Toronto in 1847, fleeing the Irish Famine.
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