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Crack, lies and videotape: What's happening to leadership?

Crack, lies and videotape: What's happening to leadership?

By the time you get to read this commentary things could take a more confusing turn or get swept under the rug. At both the national and municipal level Canadians are plugged in to politics, but not necessarily because they care about politics per se. The mess captivating Canadians is a bit more like a soap opera and celebrities-gone-wild. .

  • A traumatic personal encounter by a young Christian with crook theology

    I once believed a lie in my heart, that I had to earn God\'s acceptance, and that if I disobeyed God\'s 'calling' I would relinquish my purpose and reason for being alive. I believed a lie, that my salvation was conditional, based on my own good works and obedience.

  • Getting angry for the Gospel

    We live in interesting times. Apparently it is likely that right now, if you are born anywhere in the world, conditions are likely to be the best they have ever been. So is the claim of Steven Pinker's book The Better Angels of our Nature. And there is a very real sense in which this is true.

  • Cricket and Christ: Cricketing great Peter Pollock urges you to join the team

    As the summer of cricket is upon us it seemed appropriate to report on the speaking tour in Victoria of former South African Cricket great, Peter Pollock, who urged the audience to consider Christ and join His team.

  • It's time for a change, again.

    It is with great difficulty and humiliation that I confess; I am a fussy, difficult and contradictory eater. It all came crashing down one afternoon at a family occasion. Everyone was doing the round of who would like what with their bread roll, a coffee, a tea, or a piece of slice and I became increasingly aware of my fussy appetite.

  • The greatest article you've ever read

    We all know that language evolves. Its unlikely that a new ice cream would hit shelves nowadays called the 'Golden Gaytime', but in the 1980s it made perfect sense.

  • Thank you Jesus! A Word for those that worry

    A few months ago I attended a fundraiser. During one of the speeches, somebody on the other side of the room collapsed. The room went silent, including the speaker. There was the sound of movement and a feeling of confusion from the end of the room where I was sitting as no one could see what had happened.

  • Faith-and-Friends with Benefits

    Sega Stole My Friendship Within my first few days at kindergarten I met the guy who would be my best-friend for the next five years. We both loved trucks, building things out of LEGO and pretending to be good at rugby.

  • The moral law

    Recently I have been reading some philosophy books, and most lately the book The Moral Law, by Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). It reveals many assumptions and problems with trying to develop moral systems that most of us wouldn't think too much about.

  • Judgment under fire

    There are many times when we believe we know what's right. These times pop up no matter what. It doesn't matter what type of person we are. Whether an introvert or extrovert, you would still believe you knew what's right.

  • Amazing Grace

    There are a few hymns that I really like, and "Amazing Grace" is one of them. But somehow, like so many other familiar tunes, the weight of the words soon gets lost in our familiarity with the song.

  • When the watchtower comes knockin', I'll be ready to start rockin'

    What do you do when Jehovah\'s Witnesess' come a knockin'? Do you hide? Say a polite "No thanks, not interested"? Chew them out for interrupting your day? Or do you perhaps instead try to engage them in debate – giving them plenty of opportunity to believe you are persecuting them, earning them points with the Society?