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Reason #2 to Launch "The Pad": Christian Scholarship

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Double-timing on Farley
I have been cheating on Farley Mowat – with a man AND a woman. First with Farley’s second wife, Claire Mowat and second with Alberta author Sid Marty.   Claire, perhaps following the large and delightfully wandering footsteps of her husband, wrote two memoirs about their time together. The Outport People and Travels [...]

Creation Care in Sunday School
Christian writing about the environment often suffers from a few problems. First, it tends to be too theological. Second, it tends to ignore social systems. Third, it assumes individual solutions to complex and linked problems of creation. Fourth, such theological, social and environmental complexity is hard to describe in a readable fashion. I know I [...]

Going Green and the Solar Energy Movement
EFCL GREEN CHALLENGE Presents: Gordon Howell, Solar Energy Expert “Going Green and the Solar Energy Movement” We invite the general public to join us in an informative and entertaining evening at Riverdale Hall which has already undergone retrofits and continues its commitment to lower its carbon footprint. 7:00 [...]

Commuting is Not for the Weak
I was a long-distance commuter student for one week. A self imposed experiment to see if I could tolerate ETS for two hours a day round trip? As if. I already know I can put up with ETS despite all its short fallings. I was house-sitting for a girlfriend on the [...]

Searching for Yellowstone
This summer my family and I traveled to Yellowstone National Park for a short family vacation. We had a wonderful time and visited the obligatory sites/sights: Old Faithful, Mammoth Hotsprings, Canyon Falls, Hayden Valley. My guide during our visit was Paul Schullery’s delightful 1997 book Searching for Yellowstone: Ecology and Wonder in the [...]