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As I write this I am in Alexandria, Virginia attending a nine day conference on Small Church Ministry, offered through Virginia Theological Seminary; by the time you read this, Canada Day celebrations will be wrapped up. More ... Watch for our lineup of events - Don't miss out! Our Barrier Free Access Campaign is ongoing and we are still accepting donations. The Barrier Free Access Committee wishes to thank Julie Campbell, Raymond May, Len and Sue Slaney and Jean and Harold Cunnington for their donation to the fund. More ... Weather permitting, summer has finally arrived and the vacation season is about to begin - at last! From the time of the ancient Israelites, the Christian faith tradition has viewed rest as a holy obligation. Even God the Word rested from creating on the seventh day! More ... One of the few joys I have in life is sitting on the patio at the Winchester Arms and engaging in lopsided debate with my friend, the Mad Atheist. The Mad Atheist is a voracious reader, a meticulous researcher and a skilled debater. I routinely challenge his condemnation of the creationists, not because I disagree, but because I love listening to this guy talk. More ... There are those who think that there is a special relationship between certain numbers and certain people. This space holds no such numerological views and no opinion about what either mathematicians or mystics think to be perfect numbers. Its writer does, however, have a special affinity with the number seven. He was born on the seventh day of the seventh month at 7 a.m. More ... Now, we'll find out. For several years, ever since "Common Sense" Conservative premier Mike Harris left Queen's Park, the political-academic-media elite(ists) have been telling us that Ontario just isn't ready for the Harris brand of right-of-centre politics. More ... If Ontario's Health Minister, David Caplan, was a doctor, he would surely be barred for malpractice. But instead, Premier Dalton McGuinty has continued to keep his most trouble-prone minister in his post, ironically even while shuffling other, more useful members of his cabinet. More ... Waste is a toxic element in our society. We thought this poisonous element had been dealt with years ago. Deep land fill. Dump our garbage in an open pit mine near Kirkland Lake. Nope! Too much danger of leakage into Ontario's water systems. More ... 100 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 1, 1909 • Dufferin County is to have a crest and motto of its own. More ... |
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