Last summer, I saw this man in Huntsville, Ontario painting a huge replica of a Tom Thomson painting. He was stopping people as they went by to get them to put a dab of paint on the canvas. He said he was trying to get 1000 people to contribute and sign their name to...
The future of the world is an urban one, according to the Bible. What follows are ten theses that argue for the artistic significance of cities.
Naming two tempting alternatives to Christian faithfulness.
Somebody told me that if there was an activity you enjoyed so much you could do it without being aware of time passing, that would be good work for a person to do during his or her lifetime, especially if you could earn a living that way. So I became a teacher.
Bongi, the subject of "The Beauty of the Rainbow Nation", hated white people. Born in 1968, she grew up in apartheid South Africa—a country dominated by the white Afrikaans people. Bongi was part of the marginalized communities of that day from the proud Zulu tribe....
Snow Angels provides an artful and honest picture of how we hope and lose hope for redemption when we cannot find anything to hang on to but ourselves.
Is there something to be said for a constitution infused with political values that creates a way of living together, especially with deep differences over social values? Is the better state one that embodies these political values, that seeks human flourishing, first, by recognizing its limits, and refuses to extend its jurisdiction to the salvation of souls?
I write a lot, I edit, I take photos, I help maintain the college’s website, I answer lots of phone calls and send many e-mails. And I sometimes eat lunch.
In this informal portrait, Pierre Bourreau—the designer responsible for the layout of the print edition of Comment magazine—strikes a satirical pose in a quasi-self-deprecating caricature of himself. It's not easy to be a smoker these days—kicked outside in subzero...
Every teacher or community leader knows how hard it is to “love the people” all the time; how hard it is to try one more time to explain something already laboured over earlier. Yet still we try again, starting each time anew. This is the vocation, the calling of the teacher-leader.
Perspectives on wise decision-making from our authors.
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