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…

Remember, Saul, who later changed his name to Paul to indicate his changed life, persecuted the followers of Jesus. Something that gets glossed over all the time is that he did so under the watchful eye of the religious institution. Even more, the religious leaders wrote a letter of authority so that Saul could go to other countries to persecute believers.

Saul even authorized, on at least one occasion, the murder of a believer (Stephen). Stephen’s crime was, well, that he didn’t believe the right thing. Stephen was not convicted of a criminal offense, a social abuse or failure to live up to his potential. The only “crime” Saul accused him of was believing in Jesus Christ as Saviour. Read more…

I have had an increasing sense of living here on earth on a temporary visa. “This world is not my home, I’m just a-passing through…” says the hymn that has always resonated with me at some level. The song becomes more true all the time. 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…