Saeed Malekpoour: A Canadian on Iran’s death row: In the 1,232 days and nights since his arrest, Saeed Malekpour has asked himself that question. Each day takes him no closer to the answer, but closer to the enigma of his death. For most of his 36 years Malekpour was a problem-solver, a man with a…
Author: Matt
In this painting…
In this painting, lines of truth emanate. Light bursts forth, shattering a rigid picture, reaching beyond grasp, in bold strokes, defying a frame. In its edged background, darkness seeps through. Something corrosive. Staining. But wherever the light reaches, there is darkness dispelled. In its fierce foreground, a radiant star-burst flares forth from the form of…
Sweet Song (Sweet Return)
Come back unto me, oh please, and I’ll tend to your ease; soothe again with your sweet song, I will sing well along; long have I longed unto you, o’er nights never a few; vicious is this vile space, e’ermore long I your face; your fair words make me as dumb, and your absence as…
Did Jesus wrongly kill the fig tree?
I came across Mark 11:13-14 in my reading today, Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever…
Undead ACTA Still Thrashing
Check out Michael Geist’s latest update The ACTA Fight Returns: What Is at Stake and What You Can Do. Here’s an excerpt: The reverberations from the SOPA fight continue to be felt in the U.S. (excellent analysis from Benkler and Downes) and elsewhere (mounting Canadian concern that Bill C-11 could be amended to adopt SOPA-like…
The Rise and Fall, and Rise, of Five Iron Frenzy
New Year’s Day 2012
Happy New Year! May your heart warm again to hope by the very sunshine shone forth only from the trust put in Jesus Christ, Saviour of your soul, God, Who knows the good plans He has for you! Allow me to open 2012 with an old stand by, for the “old school Sanctus Real fans…”…
New Year’s Eve 2011
Truly, the light of the Son has shone on each day more wonderfully than the last! These words, penned New Year’s Day 2011 echo back to me from distant memory and remind me of the immediate flood of blessings I have had each day of this year! Twenty-Eleven began with a running start. In the…
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to you and yours! May this season bring you happiness and joy in Jesus Christ and his victory over sin and death! Christmas, celebrating the birth of the Saviour, marks but the beginning of his Victory over sin and death! For to us a child is born, to us a son is given,…
Nim’s Vintersaga (Nim’s Winter Tale)
Continuing my yearly Christmas tradition, I present Ola Schubert’s hand-crafted, beautifully scored vignette, Nim’s Winter Tale. Gather family around this Christmas Eve, lower the lights, and enjoy a brief, magical glimpse of Nim’s wintry world.