It would be comforting to believe that the Toronto Maple Leafs are cursed. After 41 years of failure, supernatural explanations start to seem pretty attractive, especially when hard facts are just too painful to face. It’s not like there’s any shortage of evidence for those inclined to see paranormal forces at work.
IT WAS SO REFRESHING to see Brian Bethune’s unbiased take on the current state of Christianity, especially when it comes to Jesus’s teachings (“The Jesus problem,” Faith, March 31). For far too long, people have twisted and disfigured those teachings until they became a tool to judge, scare and force followers into a certain way of life—just look at American evangelicals.
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