Holy Week brings into focus a number of Big Questions. Among the most searching is this: What do we want? In particular, what do we want from God? From life? The Gospel according to Mark opens the Jesus story with … Continued
Prayer
Prayer Breakfasts Are No Big Deal—Right?
Calgary Herald columnist Catherine Ford recently wrote a spooky column invoking the spectre of William “Bible Bill” Aberhart to scare her readers into antipathy toward, of all things, the upcoming Provincial Prayer Breakfast, to be held in Edmonton later this month. Ford is fair-minded … Continued
Religion Is Good for You—or Is It Really that Simple?
Yet another round of research shows that religion is good for you. Or so it seems. But is that quite what’s being proven? In a studypublished by the American Journal of Epidemiology, Ying Chen and her team at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of … Continued