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Thanks, Max
I didn't want to watch the news last night. Really - I'm so tired of constant reporting on the idiots (sorry - I can't come up with a better word) who are inflicting noise and nonsense all over Ottawa, keeping people awake at night, not knowing what they are asking...
Shoes
On a recent trip to Whitehorse to visit our daughter we took a day trip to Carcross, a small community about an hour away. While there we visited the new cultural centre built and maintained by the Tagish people. There is a wonderful display of totems outside, and we...
Let the Games Begin…
A Roman Catholic priest has been banned from speaking publicly after preaching, on several occasions, that “the poor often lie to get what they want.” Yet another white person has been arrested for yelling profanities at a young Asian person, telling them “you brought...
A New Book Is Coming!
I'm pretty excited that my book Women of the Bible (Hebrew Scriptures) for Progressive Christians is about to become available from Wood Lake Publishing. Target date is June 9. The book focuses on the stories of a wide variety of women from the Hebrew scriptures, and...
The Lead End of the Pencil
Several years ago, when the issue of sexist language in hymns was still a fresh topic, many people were trying to figure out how to amend traditional hymns. It was not an easy task, to take texts that had been written in a time when excluding people was far more...
Welcoming the Stranger
A group of high school students in Campbell River, British Columbia, did something incredible. It seems the government was planning on building supportive housing for folks who were formerly homeless, and the planned building was going to be near the school. Many in...