Spiritually Speaking

A mishap with my cell phone recently set me thinking more deeply about spiritual discernment and how it can help us to examine the thoughts and suggestions that come to us - are they true or false - and where are they leading us? When I began having

When German theologian Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the doors of All Saints Church in Wittenburg, Germany in October 1517, he would probably have been amazed if he’d known that the Christian world would still be talking about him today and t

While forest fires are an annual challenge, this year seems to have brought a plague of biblical proportions to BC. Newscasters and other commentators sometimes draw on a religious metaphor, calling such devastating natural events an “Act of God”.

In an article for the Faith Forum in November of 2014, I was looking ahead and noted that 2017 is the 500 th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation.

Imagine this: a group of students went up to the mountaintop and saw Jesus walking and talking with Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx—two of the most influential people of the modern world.

" Indeed Allah has chosen you and purified you and chosen you above the women of the universe . " [Quran 3:42] This beautiful declaration was addressed to none other than Maryam, the mother of Prophet Esa. Mary, the mother of Jesus.

My friend Barb Northwood has been cultivating a meditation practice for many years. She's receptive to Buddhist talk but she is not Buddhist and I actually do not know where her religious preferences lie.

If we lived in a society or a nation which practised meditation we would deal with political issues quite differently than we do now. There is always so much suffering that ensues when big issues such as fossil fuel transportation become politicized.

Two weeks ago, a longtime resident of my building passed away. He was 93. Out of respect for his privacy, I’ll call him H. I didn’t actually know H all that well.

On Canada Day I went to an afternoon pop-up concert put on by the Arkells, who hail from Hamilton. The CBC filmed the performance as part of a special broadcast showing how Canada 150 was celebrated across the country.