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…
(Lac La Biche Mission Residential School 1896_Photo Credit: Lac La Biche Mission) It would be another 100 years before the last residential school was closed in Canada — 1996. I graduated high school in 1996. I was preparing for my freshman year at college. I was under the impression that residential schools all looked like…
I sat through my first day of White Bison Wellbriety Facilitator's Training today. It's a Native American organization dedicated to educating aboriginal and non-aboriginal peoples of Turtle Island using culture as prevention. While the organization is from the US, much of the information and cultural awareness is certainly applicable to Canada. I am being trained…
