Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week! ENVIRONMENT Diesel is probably dying; will gasoline powered cars follow? The demise of the diesel would no longer seem a question of if, but when. After more than two decades of subsidizing their CO2-reducing efficiency, the only […]

by Carolyn Pogue This posting originally appeared on the United Church Observer’s website at ucobserver.org/pogue_blog/ Calgary’s St. Brigid’s heralds a new era with womenpriests I can walk to church in 15 minutes, but last week, I drove to the deep south of Calgary in search of St. Brigid of Kildare Catholic Community. I met Monica […]

Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week! ENVIRONMENT This Earth Day, Listen Up: Mother Earth Is Calling Us Back         April 22 is Earth Day 2016. Each Earth Day marks another milestone in a profound human reawakening to the truth that we are children of […]

Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week! SPIRITUALITY The Most Punctual Man in India Mahatma Gandhi’s Ingersoll pocket watch was among the few material possessions he left behind. It signaled him to go to bed, shortly after midnight, and it was there when he […]

by Carolyn Pogue In our new Canada, we can be our authentic selves This posting originally appeared on the United Church Observer’s website at ucobserver.org/pogue_blog/ . Also, check out “Sorry: Why Our Church Apologized” at Wood Lake Book Publishing In The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America, Thomas King begins […]

Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week! HEALTH All types of coffee lead to decreased risk of cancer A new study reveals that even decaf seems to lessen the risk of colorectal cancer, and the more you drink, the better…Read Full Article From Treehugger […]

 by Laura Alary This posting originally appeared on the January 11, 2016 garynealhansen.com. This week I interviewed Laura Alary: a very dear friend, and a children’s author who has written a growing shelf of books. She takes both children and theology very seriously. My kids and I totally dig her books. Since her new kids’ book Make Room: […]

By Maggie Reigh  “If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder … he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.” ~Rachel Carson Will you be that adult for the children in your […]

Each week, we bring you interesting stories from around the web. Here’s what caught our eye this week! SCIENCE Fairy circles discovered in Australia may finally solve one of nature’s great mysteries Up to now fairy circles have only been seen in the Namibia grassland of southern Africa (pictured above). Researchers have come up with […]