Author Archives: Bert Hielema

MY BODY. God has given me a special item to treasure and cherish, to nurture and preserve, to love and enhance, to exercise and keep from harm, to beautify and honor: I am referring to my body. Because it is … Continue reading →

CHANGE Change: real change. Fifty Years Ago, I left St. Catharines, Ontario. I left the city for the country, far from the urban area, some 45 km north of the nearest small city, Belleville.  In 1975, my family settled on … Continue reading →

HE’D RATHER DESTROY THE WORLD, THAN ADMIT HE IS WRONG. Confusion, incoherence, close to collapse: a psychopath in power.  In my long life, always having a keen interest in global happenings, I’ve never observed so much global turmoil, political, economic, … Continue reading →

EARTHQUAKES: MORE THAN ONE KIND. More than one kind? Well, I am in a generous mood. Why limit an earthquake to a terrestrial upheaval? I believe that any event that is ‘earth-shaking’ resembles an earthquake, so I have chosen three … Continue reading →

CHRISTIANITY IS NOT A RELIGION. SO, WHAT IS IT? Christianity is not a religion, even though, over the years, it has been called this.  Here is what makes religion ‘religion’: A religion has rites, a religion has buildings, a religion … Continue reading →

Parousia, the Coming of the Lord, will be a total surprise. Fifty Years ago. I did some soul searching this past week. Fifty years ago, January 1975, I made a radical decision: I decided to leave our comfortable 2,000 square … Continue reading →