Daniel in the Lions' Den

So I'm in the local Foodland supermarket and run into the Roman Catholic priest, who is nicely dressed in a dark blue clerical shirt (I ...

I've been asked to sign, and know a number of United Church folk who have done so, the Avaaz petition to "stop Fox News North...

I've been twittering constantly the last few days about the controversy over the proposal to build an Islamic cultural centre (termed th...

Back from a great week at the Chautauqua Institution in New York State. Chautauqua was founded in 1874 as a retreat for Methodist Sunday Sc...

Fascinating Huffington Post article by Paul Lamb on the potential for religious communities (including creating new kinds of communities) ...

The fight to save the prison farms around Kingston, Ontario, was lost in a recent court decision that gave Correctional Services Canada the ...

Although I'm in what at one time would be called a "Dissenting" denomination, I always love William Blake's lyrics to Jeru...

The Huffington Post has excerpts from Tea Party Jesus, putting quotes from key Tea Party and Republican figures into the mouth of Jesus. I...

The Muskoka G8 and Toronto G20 summits have been analyzed from here to back online, but here are just a few lines from John Doyle in today...

Much hand-wringing, name-calling, glee, and angst from commentators of various political stripes over the prospect of a "Fox News North...

I'm home from the Medieval Festival at Upper Canada Village - a very sanitized version of the Middle Ages. Many visitors were there from...

I'm on the Council of the Jacob M. Lowy Collection at Library and Archives Canada - the Lowy donation is Canada's national collecti...

According to the Tamil rapper Maya (aka M.I.A.). In this profile in the New York Times Magazine , Maya is driving by a church in East Londo...

There's an ongoing debate about churches and social justice, prompted by Glenn Beck of Fox News commenting that Christians should "...

See this article in The New York Review of Books .

"The poor have shown the church the true way to go. A church that does not speak out from the side of the poor is not the true church o...

The UN reports that polluted water accounts for more deaths than all forms of violence in the world.

A talk radio host in Ottawa is going on in amazement about how his wife can sit in their living room and access 270,000 books on her Kindle ...

I'm quoted in a Carleton University Magazine article on the glory years of on-campus concerts in Porter Hall. This will likely be one ...

Very powerful slide show of Haitians at prayer.