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November, 2009:

Theology Pub in Toronto

For those of you in the Greater Toronto Area and are looking for a place to discuss theology in a casual setting, you will want to check out Toronto’s Theology Pub. Theology Pub is a monthly gathering of Christians in Toronto. We gather for fellowship and to discuss theology with a desire to grow in [...]

The end of the Charlie Weis era

Well Charlie Weis is out at Notre Dame.  Notre Dame had an incredible aerial attack but couldn’t run the ball out on close games and had a horrific defense for most of Weis’ tenure.  In the end Weis didn’t beat better teams than Notre Dame and often were beat by inferior teams. Despite that, I [...]

Christmas Gifts Ideas for Boys Under Two Year of Age

Who would have thought that Oliver would be so hard to shop for.  I don’t remember Mark being so hard to shop for when he was a year and a half but then I realized that so many things I wanted to get Oliver are still sitting in storage because we already bought them for [...]

Breaking my heart since 1984

Well the Saskatchewan Roughriders found a new way to break my heart.  Their usual m.o. is to just be bad all season long and not make the playoffs but losing to the Montreal Alouettes on a last second penalty in the Grey Cup is something new.

The Tiger Slam

Dan Wetzel has it right when he writes about the Tiger Woods crash.  He doesn’t have anything to gain from addressing the media. He’s a golfer, not a moral-crusading politician. Saying nothing may not convince people who suspect this was a wild marital incident – TMZ.com is reporting some of Woods’ injuries came from Elin, [...]

China’s Empty City

So what would happen if you built a city for a million people and no one moved in?

The Ongoing Saga of Saskatoon’s South Downtown

So Lake Placid Developments hasn’t been able to come up with the money for River Landing.  Apparently the fall of the capital markets has made it very hard to come up with the $200 million dollars needed to build the cornerstone of what we hope River Landing to be.  While I was hunting around online [...]

Tabled

Joe Manafo has launched a wonderful resource exploring communion and worship called Tabled that you will want to spend some time exploring.

The Lego Matrix

It took over 440 hours of work so check out this recreation of the stop-motion recreation of the Neo-dodges-bullets-on-the-roof scene from The Matrix.

Christmas 2009

For us the Christmas season officially started last night with the start of Salvation Army Christmas Kettle season.  A couple of years ago I was asked if I could help out picking up Christmas kettles and bringing them in to be counted and deposited at night.  I asked what night was needed the most and [...]

Laid off

Andrew Jones was laid off by Church Mission Society today which is a difficult blow at anytime but especially during this time of global economic duress. Anyway. Its a hard thing to receive a redundancy letter, despite how nice your employer has been about it. Its like getting dumped by a girlfriend. Its a blow [...]

2009 Christmas Gift Ideas

Since many of you are starting your Christmas shopping today (they call it Black Friday for a reason), I thought I would post together my Christmas gift ideas here and hopefully you find what you are looking for.  Good luck out there, you are going to need it. Christmas Gift Guide for the Outdoorsman (and [...]

End Child Poverty

Ed Broadbent is speaking out on child poverty Why is it that Finland, Sweden and Denmark have almost wiped out child poverty, and we have not? Why do more than 600,000 Canadian kids wake up hungry and go to school trying to read, write and think on an empty stomach? First, we should have no [...]

National Geographic’s Photograph of the Year Finalists

You can find 25 of the finalists over at the Big Picture.

Where have I been?

I have to admit, I don’t follow Church, Inc. like I used to and I was shocked when I found out that Zondervan sold Youth Specialties and even more shocked when I found out Marko was laid off as part of the sale.  I feel for the Marko and his family as I know how [...]