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As the world began watching Royal Canadian Mounted Police descend upon truckers protesting the Canadian government’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement on its southern border, protesters were stationed inside a nearby building voting on whether or not to give in to police pressure trying to break up their convoy demanding vaccine freedom. After a voice vote in favor of staying put — continuing to block the entryway between the U.S and Canada — the group can be seen bowing their heads praying the “Our Father.” Over the past week, a “Freedom Convoy” of more than 50,000 truckers formed in Canada, protesting the...

  Our Father is not, according to Jesus, merely our Father. He is our Father "who art in heaven." What does that mean?   Getting at the answer to that in our present culture is harder than you'd think, not least because heaven, says C. S. Lewis, is an acquired taste. There are moments, he writes, when he wonders whether we really desire heaven.   I know how he feels. I grew up as a pagan. That's not to say I grew up worshipping Apollo or painting myself with woad and running around naked in the woods (a vision...