Social media is a powerful tool for sharing our lives with others, but I fear it’s become more toxic than helpful in this age of hyper-identity politics and influencer ethics. So I have chosen to leave. Ideological divisiveness, self-interest and echo chambers define much of the space and narrative, where scapegoating is convenient, ideological accusations…
“I think it’s just people being stupid,” one man says. “They’re drinking or whatever. Horse-playing. They end up falling in.” “I think there is a possibility that it was foul play,” a woman says. “I also think it could be just, you know, a result of being drunk by the riverbank.” Those quotes are from…
Today marks the 75th anniversary of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s martyrdom. The crucible in which Bonhoeffer lived and died – Nazi Germany, the Holocaust, and World War II – has been seen, up until now, as the greatest existential threat humanity has faced in modern times. Now, with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have entered into another global existential crisis of historic proportions, causing widespread panic, death and economic collapse. A crucible to call our own.
As a chaplain who lives and works in Thunder Bay, I’ve had the privilege to provide spiritual care and grief counselling to Indigenous youth from Northern Ontario reserves suffering the intergenerational trauma of residential schools.
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