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2003

Time, planning, balance…and more time

Time, planning, balance…and more time

In 1986 I started work with the Urban Core Support Network, a small, informal organization that connected and supported people across Canada working in urban ministry and with homeless people. I was the second of two staff people. Within four months of my arriving, my colleague left on a six-month sabbatical, made possible by his [...]

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J.R.R. Tolkien: a writer in search of myth

J.R.R. Tolkien: a writer in search of myth

A few days after notice went out that the first lecture in our winter series would deal with J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, a message arrived in my e-mail inbox. The sender was interested in attending and bringing his son. He needed to be clear on one point: was I going [...]

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Questions that pull beyond the horizon

“Why can’t reason give us greater answers? Why can we throw a question further than we can pull in an answer?” — Piscine Molitor Patel, narrator of The Life of Pi With respect to the author, Pi’s question isn’t really a child’s question. The child’s question would be more like, “When I throw this question [...]

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Snapper, in context

There are people who spend their lives walking a thin divide between something they strive to present to the world—a carefully nurtured persona—and what they really are.

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