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Scott Gilbreath,
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Archive for November 1st, 2008

Overall impressions of free speech symposium

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

I plan to blog some of the events from the Joseph Howe Symposium, “The Media’s Right to Offend: The Legal and Ethical Limits on Free Speech” tomorrow and Monday, but I thought I’d briefly offer my overall impressions of the day.
Ezra Levant is a riveting and dynamic speaker, and was without a doubt the highlight [...]

Free speech symposium: Live blog

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

I just returned from the Joseph Howe Symposium, “The Media’s Right to Offend: The Legal and Ethical Limits on Free Speech”, featuring Ezra Levant, Margaret Wente, and several other experts in Canadian free speech law and/or journalism.  While there, I noticed two young women typing on laptop computers.  They were live blogging the day’s proceedings [...]

Bob Dylan: “In The Garden”

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

A Dylan gospel song for All Saints’ Day.  This powerful and impassioned performance of “In The Garden” comes from 1980.  (There’s a glitch in the recording near the very end, after the final verse.)
When they came for Him in the garden, did they know?
When they came for Him in the garden, did they know?
Did they [...]

All Saints’ Day

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

The collect for today, All Saints’ Day, from the 1962 Canadian Book of Common Prayer:
O Almighty God, who hast knit together thine elect in one communion and fellowship, in the mystical body of thy Son Christ our Lord; Grant us grace so to follow thy blessed Saints in all virtuous and godly living, that we [...]