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05 December 2008 - In defense of Canadian politics
As some of you may know, there’s been a lot of political drama in Canada over the last couple of weeks. Back in our election in October, no single political party won enough seats to form a majority government. This was the third consecutive election in which this has happened, due to the fact that [...]
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19 March 2008 - Truth versus Belief
Henry Neufeld writes a blog on issues of Christianity, which I read (cough) religiously. He’s always thought-provoking. Today he posted on the topic of how Christian writers often seem to distort or misrepresent the truth when arguing against things they don’t believe in. His particular context for this discussion is the creationist/evolution debate that always [...]
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11 October 2007 - Re-examining my faith
Earlier this week, I found myself sitting down to write about my beliefs as a Christian. I’d had a rather vivid dream, in which someone said something that didn’t feel right to me, and I woke with the strong urge to write a response to what she’d said. But I didn’t get far before I [...]
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04 December 2005 - Can video games be as moving as books and movies?
It seems I keep finding myself talking about video games, recently. Which is strange, I suppose, since I only play two or three of them a year. Anyway, Roger Ebert (who is my favourite movie critic) recently responded to some of his critics in his Answer Man column, who objected to Mr. Ebert’s disdain for movies [...]
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21 October 2005 - On Ico
I just posted a comment on a blog in regards to Ico, and thought I’d repost it here as background for the review of Shadow of the Colossus I’m planning to write (short version: Colossus is no Ico). You can find the article and discussion that spawned it here. A friend sent me a link to [...]