In our corner of the world, school doors have closed for two months and the dog days of summer have begun. Traffic has noticeably decreased in the city. The highways are steady with vehicles and campers heading for points away. Outdoor café patios are overflowing with happy chatter amidst cool beverages. Manitobans seize the summer, perhaps because our winter climate forces life indoors for the Continue Reading →
Full transcript of the sermon given by Father Tim Jones, parish priest at St Lawrence and St Hilda in York
Monday 21st December 2009
Read his sermon in full below:
People enjoy watching musicals. Sound of Music, South Pacific, Oliver, Guys and Dolls, Seven Brides for Continue Reading →
Here are some articles and items in the news that we’ve come across that are themed to organizational leadership, values and ethics, and non-profits in general.
Each day of the e-Summit Dr Read sends an email to all delegates, which includes a Bible message from the handbook ‘Jesus and Justice: Living Right While Righting Wrongs’, published in the Theology and History stream.
DAY SEVEN MESSAGE From Jim Read 28 March 2010Welcome to the last day of Speak Out, which according to the Christian calendar is also the first day of the week. Sunday is the Continue Reading →
Each day of the e-Summit Dr Read sends an email to all delegates, which includes a Bible message from the handbook ‘Jesus and Justice: Living Right While Righting Wrongs’, published in the Theology and History stream.
DAY SIX MESSAGE From Jim Read27 March 2010
Welcome to all who are able to participate in Speak Out today, whether for a few minutes or a full shift. Continue Reading →
Welcome to SPEAK OUT!
If you haven’t registered yet to participate in the conference, it’s not too late.
Join the conversation. Learn something new. Meet someone new. Make history.
Did you know that every time there is an international sporting event, human beings are trafficked into the city where it is held so that they can be sold for commercial sex? Human sex trafficking is expected to increase in Canada next year
I think about her often – though I never see her anymore. Memories of our shared childhood linger. When I close my eyes I can distinctly picture her eyes, I can hear her laugh, I remember sharing soup during Junior Soldiers and I remember long bike rides. But most of all I think about the times we used to wrestle. Those times, rolling around on Continue Reading →
With the flurry of activity and worry around the new “swine flu” outbreak, people can be forgiven for thinking it’s no time for ‘ethics’, but from where I sit, pandemics have everything to do with ethics.
A pandemic tests the moral fibre of a community. Do we really care about our neighbors, and about the way in which we might help them in their time of Continue Reading →
