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Football Fables

The beautiful game bestrides the world like a colossus

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Ian Ritchie

Reverend Doctor Ian Ritchie is the rector of St. Luke’s Anglican Church in Kingston and the interfaith officer for the Diocese of Ontario.

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African Reformation

One country’s religious revival has implications far beyond its borders September 2009
The shift in Christianity’s centre of gravity to the Global South is now at the point where denominational leaders in the West are starting to take notice. That is one reason to take note of Political Spiritualities: The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria by University of Toronto academic Ruth Marshall. Another reason is her provocative critique of development theory as applied in the African…