Editorial

If the possibility that Ruth is fictional rather than historical bothers you, ask yourself again whether this actually matters. Would this contingency in any way diminish the book’s profound thematic message of love, faithfulness and devotion?

Psychologist and author Dr. Archibald Hart cautioned Christians not to confuse being spiritual with having adrenaline arousal. In fact, Hart suggests that this confusion can be harmful to our spiritual growth.

The only thing that blocks our entrance to a healthy, safe, wholesome, happy and peaceable kingdom is our dependence on ourselves. Without God, we are stuck with what much of our century has to offer: no resurrection, no restoration, no future.

Different from a maze, it (a labyrinth) has only one path to the centre and the same path out. Walking a labyrinth offers an opportunity for physical, emotional, mental and spiritual growth, healing and connection.

Different from a maze, it (a labyrinth) has only one path to the centre and the same path out. Walking a labyrinth offers an opportunity for physical, emotional, mental and spiritual growth, healing and connection.

The Science Centre provided entertainment of a different sort. Although I am interested in the various displays, I was drawn to an exhibit that seemed out of place in a science centre. It was the Wish Tree.

WWJLA – What Would Jesus Laugh At

It makes good sense to partner these days. It really does.

Given the turmoil the world is currently in maybe it’s time for Christians to practice intentional, active weakness – modeled on Christ’s example.

Witvoet ponders the respectable idolatry of being a Christian and a sports fan and the better country that we should all be longing (and working) for.

Until recently, the taxonomy of plants – their names and classification – has remained fairly stable. Plants have been identified and categorized on the basis of morphological features; that is, on the basis of characteristics that we can observe with nothing more than a magnifying glass. Roses, for example, share common features that allow us to classify every kind of rose as a rose.

It was a week of things coming apart. A line from W.B. Yeats ran through my head on repeat: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”