The Fleet Street Hackers – Kenneth’s Blog
The day after day reactions to the scandal of the British tabloids – mainly The News of the World but indirectly many others -- has one surprise. It overlooks the British culture from which it all emerged and which, in my view, must share responsibility. The reporters and editors who behaved so avaricously, stealing private messages from cell phones, paying sources, and maybe worse to come, didn’t drop out of the proverbial sky.(Click on the Blog's title to read the entire Blog.)
Secular Shift
One afternoon in late 1965, I walked into a cluttered television studio in Toronto to discuss a book getting wide attention across Canada. The author was also the program host, journalist Pierre Berton. His book, The Comfortable Pew, was a critique of Canada’s churches, which he found wanting in ways that, taken together, made Christian churches “irrelevant,” he maintained. In subsequent years, that word defined an earnest quest of Canada’s major Protestant churches: to become relevant. (Click on the article's title to read the complete story.)
A Little Known Jewel of the Caribbean
Anguilla is a tiny island set in warm waters of the Leeward Islands, east of Puerto Rico and just north of St. Martin. It has many beaches but only six traffic lights, with a temperature usually at 25C or above. All this caught my eye in the chill of last December, so I arranged the four-hour West Jet flight to Anguilla’s neighbouring St. Martin, then caught a 25-minute ferry boat to Anguilla, settling in an apartment hotel called Paradise Cove toward the island’s southwest. (Click on the article's title to read the complete story.)
Alaskan Experience – A Wonder You Never Leave
“Whenever I leave,” Betty Barrick said when I asked why she liked living in Alaska, “I know that whatever I see where I go won’t equal what I see when I return.” We were in Juneau, Alaska’s capital, where she’d come many years ago, and though her words may be a bit effusive, they’re plausible: A glacier near the bench where we sat was as large as a town square and beyond it the peaks of mountains rose far over the clouds. (Click on the article's title to read the entire story.)
Belize – Sunday Sun
The small green country of Belize has many unique features. Its 300 miles of shoreline are beside the gentle Caribbean.........(click on the Bold Title of this article to read complete version)