The text of an address given at the official launch for Beautiful Mercy by our senior editor, Bramwell Ryan.
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t’s a delight you have joined us on a night I thought – at times – would never come.
Yesterday morning was another long-anticipated time for me. Around 1 am I completed an 18-day stretch covering the Olympics. It was quite an experience for a confirmed non-jock to spend 12 or more hours a day immersed in the world of sports.
And that experience, while physically and mentally exhausting, was also a fascinating look into a world I don’t usually work in… in this case the world of television sports coverage. I learned a lot while I was in the locker room, so to speak.
















itting at the gate in the Minneapolis airport, waiting to catch my flight on the commuter plane up to St Cloud, I began to play a little internal game. Who in this little gathering of twenty passengers was headed to the
hristmas: how should we keep the feast? A conversation with Gerry Bowler and Aiden Enns.
Gerry Bowler would count himself as one of those in the “embrace the season” side of things. Author of “