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Rediscovering Your REAL ID
You would think that some things should go without saying, but obviously not. You may have heard on the news that American air travellers are now required to have REAL ID to board their planes. If REAL ID isn’t available, the accepted alternatives are passports, border crossing and permanent resident cards. But apparently not Costco…
Colossians: The Choices We Make
Colossians Your Choice I have a confession to make. I have way too many shirts. I don’t know what it is, but I have a closet full of shirts. Now before you judge me about being fiscally irresponsible, I’m also a Frenchie’s shopper. For years, when I was at my heaviest, I found it difficult…
Something in the Air.
Interesting. I read an excerpt from the book, Murderland, Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers. The book’s author, Caroline Fraser, speculates on the toxic air around the industrial city of Tacoma, Washington, in the early 1960s and its impact on some of those who lived in Tacoma during that time.The air was…
And we Prayed!
The other day, I had the opportunity to spend six hours in Truro with eighty pastors from around the Maritimes. There were Wesleyans, Baptists, Pentecostals and Catholic clergy who had gathered with one purpose: to pray. To pray for our churches, to pray for our people, to pray for our politicians and to pray for…
Colossians: To Be or Not to Be
The quality of mercy is not strain'd.It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath. It is twice blest:It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. That, of course, was from the Merchant of Venice, which I studied in grade 11. Do they still teach Shakespear in High School? Do they still…
Just Four Times a Month
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about not taking health advice from centenarians. Siri must have read the Penn, because last week I had a suggestion in my news feed about an article entitled “The Longest Living People in the World All Abide by the ‘Power 9’ Rule.”Apparently, there are areas in the world…
The Power of One!
I imagine that somewhere in the Quebec riding of Terrebonne, someone is kicking themselves. Maybe more than one. This will hopefully be my last political post for a while. Hopefully. Maybe you read the story, if not, after a recent recount, Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste finished ahead of incumbent Bloc Québécois candidate Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné by…
Colossians: The Promise of Baptism
Baptism. Before I was baptized, I never really thought about baptism. My family was nominally Baptist, that is, as I’ve explained before, the local Baptist church was the church we didn’t go to when we didn’t go to church. So, when we lived in Lower Lincoln, outside of Fredericton, we didn’t go to Lincoln United…
Colossians: Making the trip
It was a dinky little town, and we had lost our way. We were touring a village in England, by the name of Bampton, it’s major claim to fame today is it was the home of the library, rectory and church used in the filming of Downton Abbey. In the TV series, the church was…
Living Well
Well, that seems counter intuitive. I recently read an article entitled, “Never Take Health Tips from the World’s Oldest People.” The premise of the article was that scientist are still trying to figure out why some people can live past 100 years old. And while they haven’t been able to come to a consensus, the…