Category: Pending
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In Search of the New Amsterdam
Read More: In Search of the New AmsterdamI’ve been to Amsterdam, and other cities in the Netherlands. Walking down their streets, alongside and over their canals, clicking cobblestones and ambling into seven century old sanctuaries — this brings Dutch history to life. It is not so easy, there, to ignore the people who built this and lived it — the people who…
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Haudenosaunee Heritage
Read More: Haudenosaunee HeritageOn our trip to New York City, we will be travelling back and forth by train. This Toronto to New York Amtrak route runs along the northern reaches of Haudenosaunee traditional territory. First, it passes within an hour’s travel west to the Six Nations Reserve before heading east into New York, through Wenro, Seneca, Cayuga,…
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The Hanseatic League
Read More: The Hanseatic LeagueIt’s a stretch to think of my grandfathers as being in league with Europe’s Hanseatic cities. They were both people of the land — one a farmer to the core and the other a land reclaimer. But they stem from people who lived close to the Hanseatic sea routes or their connecting waterways, in an…
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Keep in the Castle
Read More: Keep in the CastleBuild walls to keep out the bad and you have a small garden of Eden — ‘paradeisos’, literally, an enclosed park. Castles and their compounds, cities with walls and even humble homes are meant to be places of peace and well being, protecting us from threatening forces. They are not aggressive by nature (though they…
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Father Feito
Read More: Father FeitoIt is indisputable that I have north Netherlands Catholic roots. I can trace many family lines back to the sixteenth century (almost all in the same neck of the woods), and thus, by extrapolation, to undocumented ancestors in the fifteenth century. It’s safe to say then that my people, and their culture, were largely Reformed…
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Creation’s Chaos Confronted
Read More: Creation’s Chaos ConfrontedIn the beginning, there was nothing, but God. God is good. So God created a universe, chock full of potential and form, where once it had been formless and empty.
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The Minstrel’s Journey
Read More: The Minstrel’s JourneyI don’t know when the minstrel came to our household or from where. But it was ages ago and he’s been with us ever since.
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God Includes
Read More: God IncludesGod loves you and me. That’s the firm foundation for our faith, as it can be for every one of God’s children. God’s esteem for us is also the foundation of our self-esteem.