The staff was in Moncton this week for a district pastor’s conference, and on the drive up, I marvelled at the autumn colours. The woods were a kaleidoscope of colours, no two the same. It wasn’t hard to imagine Jack Frost painting each leaf individually. One of the many things we missed in Australia was…

According to a recent Gallup poll, support for polygamy in the United States has tripled in the past twenty years. In 2003, 7% of Americans said that they had no problem with polygamy, a figure that now stands at 23%. Although I haven’t found comparable Canadian statistics, I would suspect they would be the same,…

The other day Angela and I were on our way to an appointment when an SUV pulled out of an apartment driveway and cut us off. And then to add insult to injury, they made a sharp right turn without signalling.Now I understand that as a Halifax driver, neither one of those events should have…

The other day a song came on the radio, and it began with these lyrics, “I rolled out this morning, the kids had the morning news show on, Bryant Gumbel was talking 'bout the fighting in Lebanon. Some senator was squawking 'bout the bad economy. It's gonna get worse, you see, we need a change…

This past Saturday, I served as a tour guide for a busload of tourists from the United States. It was a favour for a friend of mine. It’s a long story. And it’s a bonus when you actually enjoy doing a favour for someone. In order to prepare for the tour, I did a fair…

As a teen, I knew more about the shroud Jesus was supposedly wrapped in than I knew about Jesus.I grew up in a house full of books. My parents were readers, and they wanted their children to be readers as well, so they encouraged us by buying interesting books for us to read. One of…

Oops.  Last month, four-year-old Ariel Geller was visiting the Hecht Museum, at the University of Haifa in Israel, when he pulled over a jar displayed just inside the front entrance, and it broke. The jar predated King David and was estimated to be 3,500 years old. Oops. The artifact was on a table inside the…

I read a startling statistic the other day, according to Google, the phrase "I'm offended" has increased in usage by more than 5,600% in just the past century. It took me a minute to process that ‘the past century’ meant from the beginning of 2000 and not 1900. You don’t have to look very far…

Well, she’s dead! But, she certainly had a good run of it. 117 years 5 months and 16 days after she was born Maria Morera died. She was the oldest living human on the planet at the time of her demise. And from all accounts, Maria lived a full life. A life that she enjoyed.…

He was called the Robin Hood of McNuggets and across the Internet, people lauded him as a hero of the people. But the proper term for him is a thief. I came across an old article about Cody Bondarchuk, of Edmonton who tweeted, “I worked at McDonald’s for two-and-a-half years, and I put 11 nuggets in…