I was probably 9 or 10 when I first discovered Lego, as opposed to the soft plastic bricks that I had been playing with up to that time. Even though Lego had been around for 20 years it was only introduced in Canada in the early sixties. But even after I discovered the joys of…
Can you say Mutt?
Well, I got my DNA back the other day and I can now definitively say that I am a human being. Outside of that I think my official designation would be “mongrel”, which proudly makes me a Canadian. I’m not sure how anyone whose family has been in Canada for several generations can boast of…
Connecting with the Creator
As you might be able to tell from the platform, the signs and the bulletin, Lego has been on our mind lately. Didn’t Stefan do a great job. Do me a favour, don’t touch my pulpit. The “Lego group” began in the workshop of a Danish carpenter by the name of Ole Kirk Christiansen who…
When a Deal is Not a Deal
So, an unidentified woman in Toronto has lodged a complaint with the Police because a cosmetic surgery procedure that she had performed had gone wrong and resulted in an infection. It was only after she had to undergo corrective surgery that she made the complaint. And you almost feel bad for the lady until you…
Created to Connect
How many of you grew up with Lego? Not me, I had the little soft red building blocks when I was a kid. Other kids had Lego, but I had these little red building blocks. They looked like bricks but they only connected at two points and those points were square, so everything you built…
The Saint Who Keeps on Giving
They may have found Santa Claus and he’s not at the North Pole. Turkish archaeologists believe they have found the remains of Saint Nick, not the Saint Nick who came down the chimney last Christmas but the Saint Nick that Saint Nick is based on. Nicholas was the bishop of Myrna in what is now Turkey…
Charting the Decline
Over 50 dead and more than 500 injured in what has been described as “The deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. History.” When I was a teen that distinction was held by the University of Texas tower shootings when 16 people were killed and 31 were injured by Charles Whitman in 1966. After fifty years…
God Haters: John 15:18-25
If you remember reading the August 22 1949 edition of Time Magazine then you would remember seeing a young Elizabeth Taylor on the cover and various articles that almost sound current. Under the National section, for example, there was a little bit of a scandal in the white house. Really? A scandal in the White…