Sybilla Oritur

I’ve found myself defending my respect for the faith of men like Descartes, Pascal, Newton and - most importantly - St. Francis of Assisi. The rosary i picked up from Assisi along with the Assisi rock i use as a paperweight out of reverence for someone who believed in something, something good, so strongly he [...]

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Stories of accidental finds that overturn our historical conceptions are bound to pique my interest - i’m a late medievalist/early Renaissance scholar after all… and have frequent daydreams of accidentally uncovering in a forgotten box a copy of one of Aristotle’s lost works a la Name of the Rose on a [...]

“Fit for Christ,” a community on Sparkpeople of “Women who are dedicated to lose weight for Christ.” Because quite clearly Christ cares if you’re losing weight for him or not. There is religiousity and then there is ridiculousness… this is clearly the latter.
Discussion threads in this group include: Scripture for Weight Loss and Prayer Requests [...]

As a man of faith and education, I find it very frustrating sometimes to listen to people who have neither attributes spout loud declarations about important and serious ideas like the origin of mankind. Worse still to hear them mouth off either for or against a specific point of view that they misattribute to [...]

1833-2008
Founding
In the wake of the English conquest of the territories that were to become Québec in 1759, Lower Canada’s religious and cultural community widened. Among these new immigrants were many Scottish and English families who settled in Terrebonne. In 1833, a group of Presbyterians, led by Mr. John Morris and Mr. Alpheus Kimpton, joined together [...]