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I saw a sign in a small town in Ontario that I found very disturbing. The front said something like, "If they don't stand for the National Anthem then we should turn off the TV." The other side said, "They say that good fences make good neighbours so build that wall Mr. Trump." I felt this...

We celebrated the 93rd Anniversary of the United Church of Canada. We sang some old hymns and some new ones and it was a good service.

It's my understanding that you have to be a Mason before you can be a Shriner.

I read what people are saying and I can't help but wonder where is the love? We are supposed to be a community of faith. I used to enjoy reading Wondercafe but anymore it just seems to be people arguing and presenting a rather fundamentalist view point much of the time. I have thought long and...

One of the lectionary readings for this week includes this famous verse. I'm interested in your ideas about this verse.

To go back to the original questions. No, my minister does not preach what I believe, and no, I probably will not be in church. The church, to me, spends too much time on Christmas and Easter as if they happened exactly as the Bible says, and had we been there with a video camera we could have...

Retirement is the greatest time of life. If you were a teacher in Ontario you should have a wonderful pension. There is life after teaching and it is good! Women usually have groups of friends that they can do things with - lunch, coffee, knitting groups, church groups etc., and there are so...

With young children, I like to use a jellied doughnut. God is the solid that holds it together, Jesus is the sweetness in the middle and the Holy Spirit is the icing sugar that goes everywhere. And of course, you have to have jellied doughnuts to share.

To keep your poppy on, put the poppy on normally and them simply put the pin through the bottom edge of the poppy. It will stay on. It's a primary school teacher's trick. The children loved to take them off during the assembly and use the poppy as lips. They thought this was quite funny...

One wise set of parents of twins that I know never referred to them as "the twins" but always called the boys by name. They were fraternal twins and hardly looked like brothers and had very different personalities.

My grandmother and great aunt were identical twins and I have identical twin brothers.