Coming Soon: This Is Paradise Spirit Island at Maligne Lake

When explorer Mary Schäffer (a.k.a. Mary Schäffer Warren) first reached the end of Maligne Lake, she was awestruck and almost at a loss for words.

When she found the words, she could hardly contain herself:
“There burst upon us... the finest view any of us had ever beheld in the Rockies. Those miles and miles of lake, the unnamed peaks rising above us, one following the other, each more beautiful than the last... We could have looked ahead and aloft and said, 'This is Paradise.' ”

Schäffer – sometimes known as “Jasper's first tourist” – had explored just about everything between Banff and Jasper. She had seen many magnificent mountains, gazed at glorious glaciers and looked at lots of lakes.

But this, it seemed, was beyond compare.

The Tao of Taiwanese Sculpture

By Stephen A. Nelson

from musenblaetter.de

October, 2009

Highway To Heaven: Travelling Alberta's Icefields Parkway

Running parallel to the Continental Divide, and traversing some of the most the rugged country in Canada, the route between Jasper and Banff is “one of the jewels of Western Canada” and was rated by National Geographic as one of the “10 Greatest Drives in the World.”
Here, young-Earth Creationists and hard-core evolutionary geologists can both find “a sense of presence” living in the river valleys between the great mountain ranges...

By Stephen A. Nelson

The Brandon Sun

October 10, 2009

 

Words that Change the World: Dead Sea Scrolls at the ROM

In a multicultural, multi-faith, pluralistic society — one set of sacred writings claim a special and unique place in our consciousness and imaginations; even in the imaginations of atheists and iconoclasts.
This is especially evident with the recent Dead Sea Scrolls exhibits at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto.

By Stephen A. Nelson
The Brandon Sun
October 24, 2009