Seeking Security

The mass killing in Orlando will linger in history forever largely because it was such a crazed and deliberate act, motivated by a young man’s perverse hatred for gay people. But there’s many other and subtle social issues that supported it. (Click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)

What’s Ahead for the United Church?

Two things are uniquely Canadian: the Canoe and the United Church of Canada.” (Click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)

Justin Trudeau’s One Mistake

Especially when you are a Prime Minister. Our own Justin Trudeau, as a result of his momentary loss of self-control, has now to endure a ritual of political challenges. (Click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)

What now for America’s Presidency?

American politics actually could be worse. Moreover, there’s now news that just might even make it better, at least a bit. Maybe. As I write a small promising step has been taken by scholars of the conservative religious community in the US. Evangelicals. Southern Baptists, Pentecostals, Seventh Day Adventists and other conservative denominations are now being urged by one of their academic groups to stop beating the drum for Donald Trump. (click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)

Conflict and Courage

It may well be that the most disastrous social project in Canada’s history was the residential school concept so many years ago, in which tens of thousands of native children were more brutalized than educated. (Click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)

Mulcair had a vision but…….

An essayist of some renown once said something that befits Thomas Mulcair’s recent months: “Uncertainty doesn’t make life worth living but it makes striving worth attempting.” He’s spent the last few months facing more adversity than advantage from his own NDP colleagues. (click on the blog's bold title to read the whole.)