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A Gift for Gretje

The wind, howling from the heights of the Rockies, lashed tiny snow tornados across the moon-silvered Depression-era prairie. Half a lifetime later, the young man staring into the night would be short and plump, with a fringe of snow-white hair crowning twinkling eyes and a merry smile seeking the next excuse to laugh; but in that frozen hell, laughter seemed ashes of some spiteful dream.

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Reading the Bible
An adventure.

The Reverend Dr. Richard Topping, former minister at the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul, Montreal, now teaching at the Vancouver School of Theology, inspired by example...

Reason Versus Religion
Or two ways to think about God.

I wandered into the ongoing reason-versus-religion dispute and found the intransigence and cramped vision of both sides unhelpful to an often fragile faith. “The world created in seven days...

We Don’t See Miracles Anymore
Maybe it's because we don't want to.

The Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul, Montreal, proposed a daring theme for Lenten chapel services: questions often asked but seldom answered in church. One rearranged this...

Lunch with Friends
And a missed opportunity.

At lunch with lifelong friends, talk turned to the church which accepted my hesitant application for membership 10 years ago. They’re mildly puzzled. What about all the terrible...

The Wondering Wanderer
A semi-monthly diary of a spiritual searcher.

The first printed thoughts of this wondering wanderer, or wandering wonderer, published in Presbyterian Record at Christmas, 1999, recounted one man’s circuitous path toward faith. Born just ahead...

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