Come From Away – Grant Corriveau

“Come From Away,” the Tony Award-winning musical play, tells a true story of 38 flights grounded in a small Canadian town on 11 September 2001. It’s a remarkable story of community in the midst of adversity, of strangers who would never have otherwise met finding unity and friendship in the very midst of disaster. It is a work of media art about interrupted journeys. The production uses a small cast of only a dozen actors to keep the story focused sharply on the humans. Each actor switches many times from one character to another with only the use of a simple prop, a hat, a coat, or even just a change in voice and body language. We ...

Thoughts on My Past Super Religious Years – Grant Corriveau

Grant Corriveau I was just reading a fascinating article about a Muslim astronaut who spent the entire month of Ramadan while in orbit on the International Space Station. Since those who observe Ramadan time their fasts and prayers by the sun, what does one do in space. He explained that fasting from sunrise to sunset is not necessary if one is traveling (orbiting the earth in space would count as “travel”) but nonetheless he observed some fasts while in orbit. The details and religious restrictions and regulations of which he spoke reminded me of my own attempts to be religious when I adhered to an ultra-old-testament-church sect ...

Night Flight – Grant Corriveau

Watching the beauty of the night sky unfold before him, a pilot marvels at the grandeur of God's creation and the love that created it. We climb northwest from ORD, and as we leave 10,000 feet the first officer begins slowly turning our Airbus A320 towards Montreal. Below, in the soft darkness of early evening, the lights of Chicago slide by. I take advantage of a quiet moment in my duties to enjoy the view of the western horizon. "Hey Dave, look over here.” I call my first officer's attention to what I’m seeing out my window. Because we’re climbing out of the earth's shadow, the sun appears to be rising. "Now we can honestly claim that ...

Uplift: A Pilot’s Journey – by Grant Corriveau

View video trailer for Uplift Song: Travelers by Carolyn Arends Uplift - A Pilot's Journey - published by CWR Press Captain Corriveau has written a humorous and entertaining account of his career in aviation. Uplift – A Pilot’s Journey is a delightful, easy read. The self-deprecating humor is reminiscent of Dave Barry. Funny and fast-paced. I found it hard to put down. Corriveau captures the day-to-day aviation adventures in an entertaining and informative manner. Bravo, Captain Corriveau! What a gem of a book. Cathy Fraser, Captain, B787, Air Canada Take off with Captain Grant Corriveau in “Uplift – A Pilot’s Journey.” During ...

“I Believe I’m Right” – Grant Corriveau

“It can’t be about having ‘right’ beliefs,” my pastor said. The day our pastor’s mother died our church followed some very strict beliefs. Some would call it ultra-legalism. Others would have identified it as a cult. But then the church doctrines changed radically and he (all of us) were faced with the question, “What about those who apparently died “in error?” “It can’t be about having ‘right’ beliefs.” Suddenly we were confronted with the understanding that our faith in God, our eternal life, and all the most important issues of eternity, could NOT possibly be tied to our often flawed and always incomplete ...

May 2018

CLICK HERE to read now (PDF Format) Articles: Mothers and the Grace of God – pg. 1 A Transformation--Not a Transaction – pg. 2 Five Generations: A Legacy of Love – pg. 5 Conforming and Performing – pg. 7 Quotes & Connections – pg. 8 CLICK on MAGAZINE COVER BELOW for Flipping Page Format [real3dflipbook id="174"]

February 2018

CLICK HERE to read now (PDF Format) Brian McLaren: The Great Migration – pg. 3 Stephen Backhouse: Soren Kierkegaard: Father of Christianity Without Religion – pg. 6 CWR News, Updates, Coming Soon pg. 10 Cindy Brandt: Inconspicuous Hope – pg. 12 Eden Jersak: The Rose – pg. 13 Greg Albrecht: “God's Plan for Your Life?” -pg. 14

Bass Ackwards? Grant Corriveau

What if we have it backwards? We've been taught that life somehow, by some updated version of "spontaneous generation," came into being inside an otherwise lifeless universe. But... What IF life itself is eternal and universal and ultimately exists beyond all time and space? What if LIFE then causes everything else to exist? Isn't this consistent with what we see around us? Living beings create, act, bring things into existence, convert invisible ideas into visible things and actions. Life IS. Then, everything else follows. Think about it...

Reconciliation and Other Challenging “R” Words – Grant Corriveau

“If I had not forgiven I would have died.” — Residential School survivor The Atlantic magazine published an article last spring (March 2019) titled “Death by Civilization” to mark the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of The Civilization Fund Act in the United States. In it, author Mary Annette Pember writes: “My mother died while surviving civilization. Although she outlived a traumatic childhood immersed in its teachings, she carried the pain of those lessons for her entire life…. Two hundred years ago, on March 3, 1819, the Civilization Fund Act ushered in an era of assimilationist policies, ...

Grant Corriveau: An Uplifting Pilot

https://vimeo.com/377392562 Congratulations to CWR's friend and author, Grant Corriveau. After publishing Uplift: A Pilot's Journey with CWR Press last year, Grant has followed up with a self-published sequel, Airline Pilot: A Day in the Life. Grant's memoirs are highly readable, frequently funny and sometimes hair-raising. If you'd like to experience a slice of life behind the pilot's door of an airliner, check him out. Both books are now available on Amazon.com in paperback or Kindle formats: CLICK HERE to visit the page and order a copy. Pilot's Endorsement: Captain Corriveau has written a humorous and entertaining account ...

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