Wrestling with Shifting Faith in a Restless World
No one wants to be tolerated. That’s right. You heard me. When was the last time you felt free and accepted by someone else because they gently whispered in your ear: “I tolerate you”? Really? I don’t know about you, but when someone tolerates me I feel like they are simply putting up with…
Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States of America just now. I’ll admit it: I feel sick to my stomach. I still don’t understand how a narcissistic bully without any political experience won the presidency using racism, misogyny, lies, and outright meanness. He’s a cruel man, and I’m having a…
My dearest Cubbie, Dodger, & Rex, Today the United States is in the process of electing a new president. Like the rest of the world, Canadians are watching with baited breath to find out in a few short hours who that new president will be. While we aren’t Americans, the impact of the US election…
“To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefore unlovable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.” -Jean Vanier, Becoming Human Dear Jean, I hope you don’t mind me calling you Jean. Perhaps you prefer…
Ever have one of Sherlock’s days? I have. I am. Bored. Boredom can leave us frantic and passive all at the same time. There could be a million things to get done, but we sit, stand or pace. Instead of helping our boredom, our passivity actual increases the problem. So we end up shooting the…
Thousands of people in Lac La Biche County have signed up around the clock to be at The Bold Centre; many have opened their homes, campsites, hotels/motels, community centres and churches for shelter, food, counselling, and more; donations have come pouring in, and yup: volunteers are there too sorting, stacking, delivering and sorting some more;…
Fort McMurray is burning. Over 80,000 people are fleeing their homes and businesses — some for the last time — and finding refuge in neighboring camps, communities and cities. Conditions right now are hot and tinder-dry. The wind has blown the fire into a raging inferno. People have sat for hours on highways trying to…
