Peter Frieswick

SESAME WORKSHOP - Police are looking for Big Bird, the well known resident of Sesame Street, who has been missing for 48 hours. Though Big Bird has no known enemies, his neighbours suspect foul play.

As if there weren’t already enough ways to deliberately misinterpret the Bible, now there’s one more: the Personal Promise Bible (PPB). Produced by Phronesis International since 2005, the PPB promises customers: “you will read your first name personalized in…over 7,000 places throughout the complete Old and New Testaments.”

Popular media has recently started discussing what shamans have known for decades: the world as we know it will end on December 21, 2012. Researchers and New Age scholars have noted that on the same day the ancient Mayan calendar ends, our sun will align—for the first time in 26,000 years—with the middle of the Milky Way galaxy. These same experts warn that this event will undoubtedly be accompanied by the greatest spiritual transformation of human history—or, alternatively, the apocalypse.

Redeemer’s Storytelling Project changes the lives of children in Hamilton. The project, which just celebrated the completion of its fourth year at Memorial Public Elementary School in Hamilton, works with underprivileged students struggling with provincial literacy tests.