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    SciendaQ Fall 2012
    SciendaQ Fall 2012
    SciendaQ Fall 2012
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    SciendaQ Fall 2012

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    SciendaQ Vol. 3 focuses on the intersection of church, culture and state in its usual collection of short stories, essays and interviews.

    MARC SCHOOLEY contributes a supernatural short story featuring a Vietnam vet's struggle to perceive the spiritual truths of himself, his past and his down-and-out present.

    ASHLEY CLARK contributes the third installment in her serial creative nonfiction, in which a library-dwelling homeless woman's unusual intellect leads her to an inexplicable revelation.

    PAUL AND LAURIE MATHERS present an essay on Christ and culture, discussing that fateful intersection from Constantine to Calvin to the American Puritans and current events.

    P.A. BAINES presents the humourous self-help guide, "Are You A Politician?" This handy checklist will help you answer the timeless question, "Yes, but can I be trusted?"

    C.L. Dyck interviews internationally-published writer, speaker and world systems analyst CARL TEICHRIB on the idea of "a Christian nation."

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    PublisherScienda
    Release dateOct 23, 2012
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      SciendaQ Fall 2012 - Scienda

      SCIENDA QUARTERLY

      the armchair adventurer’s magazine

      Fall 2012

      Copyright Scienda Press 2012

      Individual articles are copyright by the respective authors.

      Smashwords Edition

      Managing Editor: C.L. Dyck

      Copyeditor: Linda Yezak

      Find SciendaQ online:

      Blog and purchasing info http://sciendapress.wordpress.com

      Facebook http://facebook.com/SciendaQ

      THIS QUARTER

      STORYTHINK

      THE KILLING FIELDS by Marc Schooley

      FLIGHT by Ashley Clark

      HUMOUR

      ARE YOU A POLITICIAN? With Your Expert Guide, P.A. Baines

      LIFE AND CULTURE

      CHRIST AND CULTURE by Paul and Laurie Mathers

      PEOPLE

      CARL TEICHRIB: Politics, Economics and Religion

      Columnist: C.L. Dyck

      Editor’s Corner

      As I prepare to make an extended journey in the United States, my heart goes out to my American friends, even as my hand goes out in the urge to shake random American strangers on the internet by the scruff of the neck.

      You see, I am Canadian. I live in a secular multicultural society, one in which I and my principles may engage and have a place, but may not rule. So the focus of faith and its interaction with society and culture is different here.

      For one, although our nation is great (at least in the large sense), and even though it was founded upon religion (French Roman Catholic versus the British Isles’ Anglican, Methodist and Presbyterian), and even though religion went hand in glove with government (see Indian Residential Schools in the Encyclopedia of Modern Travesties)...in spite of all that, somehow, inexplicably, we Canadians don’t have a rosy view of the marriage of politics and religion.

      It’s not that Canadians don’t have faith—even atheism is a belief that God doesn’t exist, after all. It’s the other part of the equation that smells funny. The thing that starts with P and ends with ick.

      On Facebook, that brain-sucking fiend of the internet, I recently saw these words posted among my American friends:

      In America, the homeless go without eating. In America, the elderly go without needed medicines. In America, the mentally ill go without treatment. In America, our troops go without proper equipment. In America, our vets go without promised benefits. Yet we donate billions of dollars to other countries before helping our own!

      I would like to suggest a revision to that statement: In America, and Canada, all this is true. Yet we donate billions of dollars to political parties and lobbyists before doing the work of the Christian. To feed the homeless. To care for the elderly and sick. To bring to those who are facing death the real presence of Christ in [us], the hope of glory, and to equip them with the truth that God became Man and died for each of us, so that eternity might be secure when all else crumbles.

      It is indeed heartwrenching to face recession, cultural demolition and political instability in such quick succession as the last few years have brought, around the globe and even here in North America. My heart goes out to people who genuinely want a better state of affairs, who have been harmed by job loss, stress and the challenges of a changeable time.

      But if Christians will say it’s abhorrent for a Muslim worldview to hold sway, or that atheism and relativism are tyrant fools when in power, then can we say it’s acceptable to alter Christianity’s supra-cultural and apolitical nature to fit our beliefs into an agenda of politically-powered threat repulsion—or perhaps even an agenda of temporal

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