I received the following message from Shan over at ‘The High Places’:
Hey, this is Shane from The High Places. Just wondering if you would care to do a favour for a fellow blogging tory. My wife and I are part of a team going to Rwanda in late June for 3 weeks, to help with [...]
I released this video a couple of weeks ago in advance of the Easter Season, but I thought I’d give it a bump since it’s almost good Friday.
Its fairly graphic, given that I used clips from Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ”, but I think it is a powerful little video.
It also [...]
First a general principle of historical scholarship:
The further away from an event, either chronologically or geographically, the more unreliable the text.
Think about that for a second, because it will be on the exam. If I wanted to study Martin Luther King Jr. the most reliable accounts would be (in descending order) a) his [...]
Dion has just announced he will run for leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Looks like Michael Ignatieff will have some competition in the ‘brainy academic’ category.
