Last week the NDP government announced the route the new Bi-Pole transmission line will take on its way from northeast Manitoba to a converter station on the southeast side of Winnipeg.
During the time of Christ it was the custom for mothers to bring their children to some important preacher very early in the life of the child so that they would receive the blessing of the pastor.
I am not a Hebrew scholar. But I have studied enough Hebrew to know that to the modern mind it is frustratingly open, allowing for various levels of meaning and interpretation.
I’ve been thinking about needs lately. Specifically, I have been thinking about whose needs drive my work.
In response to the most recent violent crime numbers that were released by Statistics Canada and which show Manitoba being among the most violent places in Canada, an editorial in The Carillon asked a good question.
You want the best for your child – and for plenty of powerful reasons, a college or university education is one of the best things you can do to give your child a great start in life.
When it comes to crime in Manitoba, the Statistics Canada report released this week shows that it is only getting worse.
It is somewhat disconcerting to notice that in many Christian circles today the concept of discipleship, or following Jesus, is almost entirely divorced from the idea of being a Christian.
A couple of months back I was feverishly working to catch up on some of the professional development reviews that we are required to do each year at Bethesda Place.
One of the problems with a news cycle that thrives on the issues of the day is that while attention can quickly be focused on an important issue, that attention is rarely sustained past a few days.
