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gospel declaring follower of Jesus, husband (45 years), father of 3, papa (6), runner, cyclist, former geologist, retired pastor, city lover, East Africa lover, coffee drinker

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“Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.” ― Dorothy Sayers

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for those voting in the municipal elections in Ontario... a reminder of what each level of government is responsible for

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Bruce Herman, author of "Makers by Nature" comments "The only people who need power are those who have no love."

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Frederick Bauerschmidt in "The Love That Is God" defines Social Media as: "Where anonymity allows anti-social behavior."

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"Some seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge: that is curiosity; others seek knowledge that they may themselves be known: that is vanity; but there are still others who seek knowledge in order to serve and edify others: and that is charity." — Bernard of Clairvaux

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"Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend." Eugene Peterson

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“People will come to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think” ~Neil Postman, social critic, "Amusing Ourselves to Death" (1985).

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Be humble. The world is bigger than your view of the world. And certainly, God is much bigger than your view of God. ~Eugene Cho

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Words from C.S. Lewis: “If they are wrong, they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them."

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“They will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.” ~Plato, commenting on the invention of writing

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In Afghanistan, people are starved of food, freedom and opportunity and risk everything to flee the hardline regime. But the biggest cross-border movement is those being pushed back into Afghanistan: six million deportees are being forced to start over under the Taliban

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“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” ~usually attributed to Einstein “Naïveté is doing the same thing over and over, and always expecting the same result.” ~Frank Wilczek, Scientific American, 2015 both are true

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Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, guiding Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to a safe landing on the moon, died Sept. 30 in Cambridge, Mass. She was 90 kottke.org/26/10/004975...

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And now for a random reminder that, yes, we live in a time of political division, climate change, income inequality and various other maladies. But it could be worse: