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Responding to the Wreckage Around Me
May 16, 2012 |
Peter Stockland
At the annual spiritual exercises of the Catholic fraternity to which I belong, we spent the weekend oscillating between questions and Christ.
Not, I must quickly add, the sopho...
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Is Canadian Politics Becoming an Extreme Sport?
May 15, 2012 |
Ray Pennings
Here are three separate stories that have been making Canadian news of late. Note that none of them have a particular sporting theme.
After three months of student protests, m...
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Beware of the Cross Police . . . or, Let's Make Crosses Mandatory for Christians
May 14, 2012 |
Richelle Wiseman
In 1984, British rock star Madonna took to the stage to perform "Like a Virgin" sporting a very large cross on a chain around her neck. The song was a major hit. So was the cros...
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Time to Think
May 11, 2012 |
Robert Joustra
In Time's latest issue, Graham Allison chronicles the timing and decisions leading up to the raid and killing of Osama bin Laden. "How it Went Down" is a pop analysis by a rock ...
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March 2012: Legacies
Our culture does not know how to deal with legacies. We either treat the dead with some combination of awe and fear, or we think of our forebears as unworthy of remembrance, to be cast behind our own pursuits and discoveries. Christians, however, can take a different tack. Ours is a historical faith, containing gifts each generation must re-open—some to be treasured, some to be viewed and sent back. In this issue of Comment, we reject both our tendencies to ignore and to idolize the pa...
Parents and teachers want children to have the skills to make a difference. But what can we teach to help them survive their teen years, 20s, and 30s with convictions and character intact?
Gloria Stronks was a classroom teacher for 15 years, a college professor for 22 years, and has (co-)authored ten books. Julia Stronks is a professor of political science at Whitworth University.
We were not created for heaven. We were created for earth. And someone who sees God constantly acting in and through this world might be a little more attentive to what he's doing when drafting policies, or voting.
Kyle David Bennett is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophical theology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, Calif, and formerly reviews editor for Comment Magazine.
How striking to hear a well-known Chinese intellectual insist that the Christianity he saw in the villages of Yunnan, in rugged southwest China, is now as indigenous as the region's famous buckwheat cakes.
Most importantly, we wanted you to learn the truth about you: not the unplanned product of a purposeless universe, but the masterwork of the majestic Creator, with intrinsic and incalculable worth regardless of your GPA, your earning power, or your place in the social pecking order.
From Justin Martyr, Athanasius the Great, and John Chrysostom, we learn lessons on inexhaustibly defending our faith in public.
The way Christ's finger hangs there calling at Matthew, languorously, emphasizes the quietness in which the whole painting is framed.
SIX QUESTIONS . . . The new culture I am making is an attempt to say hold still and look at this.