Hemingway on Writing
For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. – Ernest Hemingway I am presently writing a…
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Rewiring Our Brains
Dr. Louise Banks: If you immerse yourself into a foreign language, then you can actually rewire your brain. Ian Donnelly: Yeah, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It’s the theory that the language you speak determines how you think and… Dr. Louise Banks: Yeah, it affects how you see everything. Arrival, 2017, Directed by Denis Villeneuve, written by…
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Pacing the Cage
Bruce Cockburn has written many brilliant songs, but the one that is on my mind tonight is “Pacing the Cage” (1996, The Charity of the Night). He captures humanity’s angst well. Who can’t relate to this song in some way? We long for something more than this cage in which we find ourselves; we’ve lived…
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Christ and the Cosmos
This past week I spent three days with 300 other people discussing Science and Faith, Evolutionary Creation, Theology, and how we understand our Creator God in the light of recent scientific discoveries. I was in Houston at the BioLogos 2017 Conference. This conference draws speakers and attenders from a variety of fields. We had keynote…
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Wisdom of God
Seamus O’Regan is an MP for St. John’s South, Mount Pearl. On St. Patrick’s Day of this year he made some statements about refugees in Canada. Now, whatever I may think of Seamus O’Regan, and I would not agree with everything he says, here, I think he makes a good point. He reminded us that…
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