In the “Toronto Sun” on Tuesday November 20, 2012 an article appears about littering. It’s one of those issues that belong to the earth world, but since I’m here it makes a difference.

We constantly pick up garbage from our yard where the wind (which blows wherever it wants to) deposits it. Some of it is throw-away trash. Some blows out of garbage pails where the garbage wasn’t properly kept.

I remember when I first came upon the computer programming term GIGO, “garbage in – garbage out”. If you enter errors or useless data into a computer you get the same junk out.

Does litter indicate a condition of the soul? Read more…

Living a spiritual life challenges you every day, every moment of everyday. On the one hand it’s very exciting, but on the other, it means stop being so human and start being perfect. What? Read more…

For a long time we have been distracted into thinking that the enemy of Christ is science. Of course, science is an enemy of religion. Others attack Christian religion as a conspiracy. I still remember various religious groups, including the Vatican, denouncing the book by Dan Brown, “The Da Vinci Code”. I admit I haven’t read the book; I rarely read fiction. But why get your surplice in a knot over a mystery novel? Unless the fiction is so believable as to suggest religion is rife with conspiracy (which it is). Read more…

Today is All Saints Day. Very recently The Vatican made a saint of Kateri Tekakwitha. As a student of history I read biographies of those people the institution of Christian religion has elevated to such honour. I respect them for their faith lived. They inspire me. But… Read more…

Many years ago I studied the book, “How to Be a Christian Without Being Religious” by Fritz Ridenour. It had more influence on me than I ever could realize. Though I do not intend to go through that book here, I do want to search out what this means in living for Jesus now. Read more…