I am old enough to remember two general Middle Eastern wars, the second of which started right after I had begun my undergraduate studies in Minnesota. With Israel’s victory in these wars, the Jewish state had acquired an aura of invincibility, despite the enmity of its numerous and much larger Arab neighbours. On October 7,…
Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer (2023) was deemed by The Guardian a “towering achievement,” receiving high praise for its stellar cast, elaborate storytelling, and tense filmmaking. The film documents the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the so-called father of the atom bomb. In a chilling conclusion, viewers come to terms with the possibility of a real-life “world…
Last week, our friends were excitedly planning for the upcoming youth convention. Then we heard the news. The 2023 All Ontario Youth Convention (AOYC) scheduled for this month was cancelled at the last minute because of objections to the main speaker Kevin Makins’ view of same-sex marriage. He wasn’t going to speak about or mention…
So here we are, a year into the Russian war on Ukraine. That seems like a long time, as we continue to hear about missile attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure and apartment complexes, possible war crimes, counter-offensives, and promised Leopard tanks. But understanding where this conflict came from requires more than a year’s vantagepoint. We need…
If anything has kept me up at night in my life, it’s unresolved conflict. Lying in bed after a strong disagreement, I find myself wondering how an innocent conversation turned into a stressful debate and then an argument. Have you had nights like that too? Especially lately? The apostle Paul pictured this painful disagreement as…
Each morning for weeks, we wake to a minor civil war just outside the bedroom. A fierce food fight at the hummingbird feeder. It lasts all day. Six or more are at it. No tolerance for the other’s existence. No matter that food is in abundance; no matter that each can have a private spigot;…
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