I’m not quite ready to leave Christmas yet, at least not in the Penn. Did you read about the fight that broke out in Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity during the Christmas season? The Church of the Nativity is the church built over the site where some believe Jesus was born. The incident made the…
What Next?
WELL, CHRISTMAS HAS COME and gone and New Year’s Eve is just a memory. How are you feeling about 2012? Are you excited? Are you cautious? Are you simply resigned to it happening?The reality is that, regardless of how we feel about the coming year, there is a very good chance that it is going…
Keeping Christ in Christian
You find truth in some of the strangest places. I was reading an article online a couple of weeks ago, Unitarian minister Marilyn Sewell was interviewing atheist Christopher Hitchens. Hitchens who passed away last week, talk about “all dressed up and no place to go”, was the author of “God is not Great: How Religion…
Come on Ring that Bell
I said I’d do it and I did it. This week I volunteered with the Salvation Army to tend a kettle in the mall. I was a little disappointed that I didn’t get a bell, so I downloaded an app for my smart phone. What says Christmas like a bearded fat man , wearing a…
Hark the Herald Mall Muzic
I heard it amongst the hustle and bustle of the season, in the commercial clamour of a shopping mall. My mind was a million miles away as I rushed about my day, and I really wasn’t prepared for it, but I heard it anyway. Above the busyness of the day, and through the fog of…
As Dependable as the Weather
Penn of DennAwesome weather last week. On Wednesday we were digging out from 35 cms of snow and on Saturday I was in the city doing hospital calls and I had the roof down on my car. Gotta love Nova Scotia weather. If nothing else, it certainly gives us something to talk about. In one…
Yesterday ended last night at midnight
I am reading a novel about a man’s attempt to change the past. In this case he is trying to prevent the assassination of JFK. I know that time travel isn’t possible but it is just a novel. Although sometimes I wonder if we are on the bank, while the river of time flows by…
Poor Me
What a bummer of a day it was. First, when I was at Tim Hortons to finish things up for my Sunday message, I discovered I had lost my USB key that my nearly completed message was stored on. Then, as I made my way in the torrential rain, I pushed the wrong button on…
2012 is almost here!
I got my first look at a 2012 calendar the other day and, to my surprise, it went right up to December 31st! I checked every day in December and nowhere did I see a notation that indicated the “End of the World”. Then I realized that I was looking at “my” calendar and not…
That’s a Bad Idea
That’s one of the dumbest ideas I’ve heard. In response to a number of deaths in the Valley, related to people mixing alcohol while abusing prescription drugs, the provincial government has responded with . . . an ad campaign. The province wide campaign will include print and television spots warning people about mixing alcohol with…