Time for an independent Canadian CRC
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Acts of grace in ER
Working as a nurse in Canada today is challenging. “We have way too much to do,” Gaudaur says, since government-regulated budget cuts have replaced RNs with RPNs and increased the nurse/patient ratio. “Tasks and expectations” are impossibly high, yet “people who don’t know me need me to be kind.”
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Worship: Don’t leave anyone out
Author and teacher Richard Lederer highlighted our need for words by, fittingly, creating a new word. He said we are “verbivores;” we must consume words to live.
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President Trump
What sort of president will Trump be? Predictions are always hazardous, of course, because even the most cautious and conservative can be overtaken by unforeseen developments. But we can more easily see the sort of president Trump is unlikely to be.
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Groaning in prayer for the world
I live in two worlds. One is the hyper-cruel projection of Donald Trump’s narcissism that I cannot escape from, nor should. The other is a small community resolutely rejecting such wicked folly, praying for forgiveness when we slop at its toxic trough.
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The God of Silence
The God who accompanies us is himself silent before human pain and suffering, whether his own or that of his sisters and brothers. The incarnate God is not silent in the sense that he acquiesces to the injustices of our world, but in the sense that he refuses to explain suffering (away).
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Father of the bride-to-be
Over the Christmas holidays my daughter received a special gift – an engagement ring. However, as the father of the bride-to-be, there is a lump in my throat and many thoughts and feelings are circulating in my mind.
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Ask a farmer
A century ago, over half of Canada’s population was farmers. Most folks understood farming as it was done then because it was fairly simple. Today people are so far removed from agriculture that they have a hard time understanding the scary stuff they read about – growth hormones, steroids, genetically modified organisms, medications, pesticides and the like.
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Yesterday is gone
Pain does crazy things to your life. It can bring the toughest person beyond their breaking point.
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The Bible as a fantastic comedy
C.S. Lewis once argued that realistic fiction might actually be the most dangerous genre of literature for Christians, including Christian children. As he pointed out, few children really expect to meet a dragon because of reading fantasy, but many may come to believe that getting rich through hard work is a primary human value after reading certain “realistic” fiction.
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Why the American election wasn’t as strange as you thought
I don’t normally discuss politics here, but after reading some articles in CC responding to my country’s Presidential election, I judged that it would be helpful for Canadians to hear an American perspective.
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‘Holy Trinity’
“I have to make sure when I go out to have the ‘holy trinity.’” Recently, I heard a preacher say this in a sermon. At first I was not sure what he meant. Then he said, “I check for my keys, my wallet and my phone.”
