Wrestling with Shifting Faith in a Restless World
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…
There will be a new president-elect tomorrow on November 8th 2016. The level of hatred, division, personal, professional and political attacks we have leveled at one another has been almost unprecedented in American history. It’s trickled over into Canadian politics, especially here in Alberta where one woman — the premier — is the target of…
I’ve been involved in a few online conversations in the past week concerning some people and issues important to me. All of them were emotionally charged; one of them left me feeling like I’d understood and affirmed the other folks’ comments (& vice versa), one remained at a rather superficial level which kept things polite,…
Today was a weird day. If you live in Alberta you’ll know of the raging debate the reigning Conservative Party has had with the rest of humanity about having gay-straight alliances in schools. Today in the news: Alberta government introduces amendment to allow GSAs in schools So to amend the article a bit: there IS…
Terri-Jean Bedford kicked out of prostitution bill hearing Terri-Jean Bedford_cbc.ca Kady O'Malley writes, "Retired dominatrix Terri-Jean Bedford was escorted by security out of a Senate committee meeting after refusing to heed the chair's warning that her allotted speaking time had run out — but not before threatening to make politicians "forget about Mike Duffy." " (CBC News,…
Emotions_allyaubry_CC We've all been there. We say something that we think is hilarious… that others around us think is hilarious… that get a lot of 'likes' on FB… but that one lone downer in the crowd pipes up: "Excuse me, I find this offensive." End laughtrack. Cue awkward silence. Sometimes we say something we consider…
