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Pride
There’s been a lot of fuss about Pride celebrations and observations lately. It scares me. It scares me because people are taking their feelings and trying to pretend they’re something else. They’re taking something they don’t like about the LGBTQ2S+ community and...
Guilt
I don’t like guilt. I’m not talking here about people being found guilty or not guilty in a courtroom. And I’m not talking about the times when I feel badly for dumb or harmful things I have done. No, I’m talking about the stance of making people feel guilty for...
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...