Nov 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
Abstract The goal of this essay is to understand the colonial roots of the disproportionate violence rates against Indigenous women, the Highway of Tears (a Highway in Northern British Columbia along which over 40 women have gone missing), as well as address the...
Nov 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
What a difference a week makes. It already seems like forever ago that we lived in a world where Trump just couldn’t be elected president. Most of us (literally - a popular majority) just knew in our bones that when we cast our vote, this annoying potential...
Nov 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
NEW YORK / GENEVA (28 October 2016) – Palestine’s right to development is being denied by Israel, creating an environment plagued by poverty, “epic” unemployment and economic stagnation, according to a new report from a United Nations human rights...
Nov 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
Here are the key statements of Jesus on which I wish to comment: “But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners” (Mat 9:13) and “Are not five sparrows sold for two cents? Yet not one of them...
Nov 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
An excerpt from Laurence Freeman OSB, CHRISTIAN MEDITATION NEWSLETTER, Vol. 34, No. 3, October 2010, pp. 4-5. The other is essential to the mystical and loving mind. Otherness stimulates the mind to let go of its fixed points and expand beyond itself, enlarging the...
Oct 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
On June 29, I was playing basketball with my kids, when I blacked out. I fell backwards, banging my head on our concrete driveway, which gave me a concussion. Since my fall I have been on a journey of recovery. Psalm 91:14-16 says, "I will give...
