It’s Giving Tuesday! And you know what that means? It’s time again for my annual fundraiser for the Against Malaria Foundation. The reason I continue to partner with this charitable NGO is simple: need and effectiveness. The Need Let’s talk about the need first. Believe it or not, the mosquito is far and away the […]
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Canadian Christians & Skeptics vs. American Christians & Skeptics: My Annual Anti-Malaria Fundraiser!
Well, this is the highlight of the year for my website: it is time, again, for my annual fundraiser for the Against Malaria Foundation, one of the most efficient and impactful charities in the world! This year, I made a video (featured below) with an interview with Rob Mather, the founder, and CEO of the […]
Christians vs. Skeptics: The Ultimate Charitable Competition
Last year, I sponsored a fundraiser for the Against Malaria Foundation that pitted skeptics against Christians. The U.S. fundraiser raised $660 (US funds) while the Canadian-based fundraiser raised $1250 (Canadian funds). I plan to launch another fundraiser this year on Giving Tuesday (December 1). However, my goal this year is to double both totals. And to […]
A Quick Word of Thanks
A few weeks ago, I hosted a fundraiser on my website for the Anti-Malaria Foundation (AMF). All told, the US-based fundraiser raised $660 (US funds) while the Canadian-based fundraiser raised $1250 (Canadian funds). (Granted, I boosted the Canadian totals!) All told, our giving resulted in the purchase of 799 mosquito nets which will prevent the suffering […]
Christians and Skeptics Can Change the World Together! Won’t You Join Us?
On Giving Tuesday, I launched a fundraiser for the Against Malaria Foundation (AMF). Why the AMF? Because with their mosquito nets they are dollar-for-dollar one of the most effective NGOs in the world today at decreasing/preventing human suffering. And I thought that was a wonderful way for Christians and skeptics to join together in a […]
Give a Little Bit: My Super-Duper Christian/Skeptic Anti-Malaria Fundraiser!
I’ve had the Supertramp song “Give a Little Bit” running through my head this morning, and for good reason. After all, it is Giving Tuesday. So, here’s the pitch: if you have benefited from my blog, tweets, YouTube videos, and/or books, I am asking you to consider giving. But I’m not asking you to give […]
The Day I Ran for the Cure
This past Sunday (Sept. 30) I participated for a fifth year in the annual CIBC Run for the Cure to end breast cancer. I set a modest fundraising goal ($300) which I exceeded thanks to the generous donations of five people for a grand total of $503. I run to honor my mom — a […]
Help me kick cancer in the teeth with my steel-toe running shoes
Every autumn, I join tens of thousands of people in an annual run to make breast cancer history. I run for my mom, a cancer survivor, and for the millions of other people who have faced this terrible disease. Every year, I spend hundreds of dollars and hundreds of hours to keep this website and […]
Help! Let’s kick cancer’s butt together
Let me be blunt. Cancer sucks. So let’s do something about it. This is the fourth year my daughter and I are participating in the Run for the Cure (October 2) to make cancer history (aka to kick cancer’s butt). If you appreciate this blog I hope you’ll consider donating at our fundraising site here. […]
Ran for the Cure
This morning I joined my daughter and Ran for the Cure at the annual Run for the Cure event in Edmonton to raise money to fight breast cancer. It was an inspiring event, with more than 10,000 people participating to kick cancer in the teeth. I came to the event thinking that the run was […]
Running to make cancer history, one step at a time
In his magisterial book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, Doctor Siddhartha Mukherjee tells the story of a dreaded disease, and the indomitable human spirit that has fought it throughout our history. Cancer is a hydra-headed beast, and our struggles with it will only increase in the future. As the fight continues, […]
Running for a Good Cause
On September 19th I’m going to be participating in a 10 km run as part of a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity here in Edmonton. To this point I’ve written a couple thousand articles on my blog and posted more than 80 podcasts, and I’ve never asked anybody to give me a dime. But I do […]
