Sports, Health & Self-help

Prayer: The Hidden Fire

Tom Harpur, religion columnist for the Toronto Star and host of the Vision-TV series Life After Death, aims to discuss how we send thoughts of thanks or petition to God, and why. He uses his ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Can God Be Trusted? Faith and the Challenge of Evil

By John G. Stackhouse Jr.

In attempting to remove confusion from some dimensions of what is essentially an insoluble issue, John G. Stackhouse Jr., a professor of religion at the University of Manitoba, has written a book that will work ... Read More »

February 18, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

★ The Death of Hockey: Or How a Bunch of Guys with Too Much Money and Too Little Sense Are Killing the Greatest Game on Earth

By Jeff Z. Klein and Karl-Eric Reif

“What’s wrong with the National Hockey League these days?”That question has likely been asked thousands of times from coast to coast in this country over the last five years – in sports bars, around office ... Read More »

February 17, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

A Place Like Any Other: Sabbath Blessings

By Molly Wolf

Molly Wolf offers spirituality from Kemptville, a town just south of Ottawa. Kemptville is a “place like any other,” but Wolf is not a typical thinker and these are no routine thoughts. Here are luminous ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Putting a Roof on Winter: Hockey’s Rise from Sport to Spectacle

By Michael McKinley

It’s in Richard Ford’s luminescent novel The Sportswriter that his unhero, Frank Bascombe, dismisses hockey as “an uninteresting game played by Canadians.” I’ve grown somehow fond of the easy superiority of those six words, the ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help

Toe Rubber Blues: Midlife Thoughts on the Prospects of Aging

By Tom Allen

When Tom Allen started work on his first book, he must have been about 35, which is the same age Dante was when he began writing The Divine Comedy. Like Dante, Allen is concerned about ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Sports, Health & Self-help

Muhammad Ali: Athlete, Activist, Ambassador (Champion Sports Biography Series)

By James Duplacey

There’s nothing like a good sports biography to get a fan’s blood pumping. A well-written account of the sporting life can prompt fond reminiscences of one’s own athletic past, call up daydreams where you’re the ... Read More »

February 16, 2004 | Filed under: Sports, Health & Self-help