Spiritually Speaking

Over the last few months, my family – like many others in Canada and the US – seriously considered our safety and well-being in a part of the world that is often heralded as the bastion of freedom.

I don’t know about you, but I have spent most of 2017 so far longing for the light to come back. Is it just me, or has our normally grey West Coast winter been even greyer? The prolonged {for us) snow and cold haven’t helped, either, I suppose.

The Jewish holiday of Purim is quickly approaching. It begins on the evening of March 11 and continues through the next day, Sunday the 12th. The holiday of Purim has its roots in the Biblical Book of Esther.

From our 12 th -storey window overlooking the Salish Sea, I can see the communities nestled along the West Shore, across the snowy peaks of Washington to the south and over to Trial Island in the east.

Our Member of Parliament in North Vancouver, Liberal Jonathan Wilkinson, won the 2015 election by 19,157 votes, defeating the Conservative incumbent, Andrew Saxton, who had won a second term in the riding in 2011 by 11,331 votes.

I just returned from travelling overseas to Scotland and Ireland.

As I wrote last week, God requires us to practice.

It might be easier to preach the gospel and expound upon the ‘Good Book’ if the stories told and the struggles contained weren’t so dratted relevant.

When Commander Chris Hadfield took command of the international space station in March 2013, he did something that no commander had done before, he communicated his love of space in glorious daily tweets to the world.

The legend that inspires our annual celebration of love on Valentine Day focuses on only one aspect of an interesting man – as if romantic love is the only thing for which we should remember this patron saint.