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Advent 1: Amid darkness, hope is deeper than optimism
I believe in the love that you gave me I believe in the faith that can save me I believe in the hope. And I pray that some day it may raise me Above these Badlands. – Bruce...
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Advent 1 Sidebar: Badlands highlights hope
Badlands By Bruce Springsteen Lights out tonight, trouble in the heartland. Got a head-on collision, smashin’ in my guts man. I’m caught in a crossfire that I don’t understand. But there’s one thing I...
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Advent 2: Peace, with an edge
Peace. It’s so boring. Not nearly as exciting as violence. Bang! Smash! Crash! We are both seduced and repelled by violence: an argument; a fist fight at a Canucks game; Keanu Reeves with automatic...
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Holy Jazz
Want to jazz up the sacred side of your Christmas? A Presbyterian minister in Burnaby enjoyed how my second Advent series column (Saturday, Dec 3) compared deep spiritual peace to an improvisational...
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Advent 3: Easier to sing of joy than define it
Joy and woe are woven fine A clothing for the soul divine Under every grief and pine Runs a joy with silken twine. –...
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Four responses to Advent series, including disagreement
I enjoyed these four probing responses to the first three parts of the Advent series, exploring the candles of hope, peace and joy. The series concludes this Saturday with a look at the flame of love....
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Advent 4: And the greatest of these is Love
Things are getting rough in the love department. So bad that one prominent theologian resorted to calling it a “weasel word.” Harsh stuff. But since the L-word can be employed in so many ambiguous and...
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Christmas not a religious imposition in B.C., poll suggests
It may be time for critics to stop declaring that Christmas is a terrible imposition of the Christian religion on multicultural British Columbians. A new Ipsos-Reid poll, released today, shows that...
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