It must have been dark in the belly of the whale. No horizon in sight. No hills. No plains. No rosy-fingered dawn. No marker of a new day. It was a time away, but not the one he was hoping for. At the opening of the book of Jonah, the prophet had his sights set…
When politicians make policies specifically targeting transgender kids, as they are doing in Alberta, what is their aim? Who wants you to be preoccupied about trans kids, and who benefits when you are? Politics is about principles, rights and formal justice, but it’s also about emotion, power and competition. Though we need to ask “principled”…
When frustration with complex problems sets in, it’s easy for humans to blame someone else for our predicaments. That’s especially true when the causes of our problems are not easy to change, such as global economics. Scapegoating, which redirects blame to a person or group not at fault, often happens when legitimate fears and frustration…
November takes us on a strange journey from All Soul’s Day to Advent, with Remembrance Day in between. I’ve been thinking about the poem “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae. Like everyone else my age, I remember memorizing it in school and reeling it off with my class, all standing chock-a-block in assembly together with…
As a teenager I worked in a small town restaurant. Usually it was fun waiting on tables, chatting with happy people and serving good home style food. I saved enough tip money to buy my first car. On busy weekends people lined up out the door to wait for a table. That’s when fun gave…
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Could Franklin Roosevelt’s words be true today? We live in fearful times. Fear is the feeling that something bad could happen. Fear comes when things are out of control, over-controlled or overwhelming. Not new. Not news. Fears can be personal or corporate. What do you…
When I was a kid, there was a Bigfoot movie. I remember this because I saw the commercial for it just once – and slept wearing a hockey helmet for about five weeks afterwards. I remember my dad, sitting at the foot of my bed, explaining that being attacked by a mythical forest monster in…
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