Almost 20 years ago, I published this column in Faith Today (September 2001). A reader recently wrote to the FT editors asking for its location online since he remembered it and wanted to send it around to some others. Since … Continued
Prayer
Holy Week Prayers: What Do We Really Want?
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 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