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I am racist. I am sexist. I mean those statements from the bottom of my heart, and they bother me. As you get your heads around those, let me say something else from the bottom of my heart that also bothers me: I believe that all white people are racist, and all men...

I love John 3:16–17 (it’s really one thought so it seems a bit strange to cut it in half). I love the message of hope it can bring us in this crazy world. And yet, I know too many people who seem to love rushing to the verses beyond and using them as hammers of...

Someone posted this on the internet – I cannot credit the source because I don’t know it. But thank you… No one is cancelling Dr. Seuss. There are 6 books that his own estate, are ceasing to publish because of overtly racist content. They are using them as a way to...

This time it’s Dr. Seuss. The time before it was Laura Ingalls Wilder. The time before that it was Mark Twain. I’m talking, of course, about challenges to certain books. Or at least the racist parts of certain books. Or parts of books that may have been written in a...

Fascinating story in the news this morning. It seems a girl was sent home from her high school in Kamloops (a town a couple of hours north of here) for inappropriate clothing. Having raised several teenagers, and having long ago been one myself, I certainly know they...

So I’m watching the weather report on television and thinking about the end of the world. It seems there is a huge snowstorm happening on Vancouver Island. I grew up on that island, and I know how rare snow is there. I mean, it has happened before and it will happen...