Jul 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
I've always liked to watch detective shows. Growing up, two of my favorite detective shows were Columbo and Dragnet. Remember Sergeant Joe Friday of Dragnet? Sometimes when Sergeant Friday would interview a witness they'd get a little long winded or off topic....
Jul 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
Azariah France-Williams Warriors and Martyrs School playground circa 1982 two seven year old boys are locked in mortal combat. We join them as the taller boy seizes the L shaped branch and with it the advantage "Pe-ow! Pe-OW! PE-OW! You're dead,...
Jul 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
We are a hardhearted people. From southern racists flying confederate flags, notwithstanding the pain this causes black passersby, to the New York Times defending using fetal body parts for experimentation– as if the only problem is one of legal...
Jul 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
Not whether, but how. MP Wai Young Our British Columbia media recently jumped all over the situation of a sitting MP speaking in her Vancouver Church. From the pulpit she proclaimed that her party’s creation of bill C-51 on fighting the specter of...
Jul 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
Lately I have been especially struck by the destructive practice of labeling, and how widespread it is in our time. In America these days racial profiling seems to be on the rise. Partisan political categorizing and outright hatred towards people of different...
Jul 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
In April 2015 fifty people from all over the world join Peter Rollins in the cultural heart of Belfast for four days full of talks, music, art, drinking, conversation and conspiring. This is a short talk from one of the afternoon sessions in which John Caputo reflects...