Ecclesiasticus 28:18-19

Aug 29, 2012 | Quotes

  Many have fallen by the edge of the sword, but many more have fallen by the tongue. Blessed is one who has been sheltered from it, and has not experienced its...

Civilization: The West and the Rest

Aug 29, 2012 | Current Books

Why did the West do better than the rest? What is it about western civilization and culture that has made the West so strong and successful ? Will the West continue to be the best? Niall Ferguson takes the reader through different cultures and explains the affects of...

Waiting for a heart

Aug 29, 2012 | Religion / Spirituality

My work as a chaplain at Toronto General Hospital included caring for those waiting for heart transplants. Some waited for many months. Everything that they did or ate was recorded, even the number of grapes because they contain fluid and fluid intake had to be...

Rogge the rogue

Aug 22, 2012 | Politics

  Why did Rogge refuse a moment of silence for the Munich 11?   FEARS OF ARAB BOYCOTT? Ankie Spitzer, widow of one of the Israeli athletes killed in Munich and a long-time campaigner for an official Olympic moment of silence, told Reuters that two days...

The Prayer Shawl in Palliative Care

Aug 20, 2012 | Religion / Spirituality

Feeling the presence of God is emotional, ethereal, ephemeral. We cannot touch that feeling.  It is through symbols and rituals that we can transform an emotional feeling into a physical one. All of those feelings are brought together when donning the prayer...