The Impact of Christ on Female/Male Relationships
This study still has pertinence today. There are two versions, which titles below explain. The second was presented on the University of British Columbia campus to a secular/Christian audience. An excerpt from the first: Introduction A few years ago, a man phoned me and asked if I had some time for a talk. I replied […]
Circles of Support and Accountability
Needless to say, I believe in Restorative Justice and CoSA!
GOD IS NOT GREAT: How Religion Poisons Everything
Christopher Hitchens, Toronto: Emblem Editions, 2008, 307 pp. WN: With such a claim in the title, Hitchins’ treatise invariably tells us far more about the author than his subject. His brother Peter’s book fills in the details: The Rage Against God: How Atheism Led Me to Faith. To be sure: any humanist with a modicum […]
Trump’s Politics Fractured My Family. Where Do We Go After The Election?
Trump’s Politics Fractured My Family. Where Do We Go After The Election? I’m a Democrat, they’re Republicans. Healing the political divide will be America’s next challenge. Updated 11/13/2020 By Jenn Merritt, Special To HuffPost WN: The article highlighted below holds special sadness for me, given a similar concern in our family with some […]
A Long Talk With Anthony Fauci’s Boss About the Pandemic, Vaccines, and Faith
A Long Talk With Anthony Fauci’s Boss About the Pandemic, Vaccines, and Faith just asking questions July 1, 2020 By Jebediah Reed@jebediahreed photo above: statnews.com WN: So much could be said that is positive about the article. As to the first two items in the title, I have excerpted a little on that. As to […]
“A FIRE STRONG ENOUGH TO CONSUME THE HOUSE”:
by William T. Cavanaugh first published in: Modem Theology 11:4 October 1995 ISSN 0266-7177 WN: Dr. Cavanaugh has been producing an impressive list of scholarly works challenging certain Enlightenment narratives about Christianity in the West. I previously reviewed two of his books together: The Myth of Religious Violence and Migrations of the Holy. I can […]
Rwanda Dispatches May 18 to July 12, 2018
At 30 years on to this day, April 7, 2024, the Rwanda Genocide broke out, that saw more than 1 million Rwandans murdered. CBC did the interview you see below. 30 years after Rwandan genocide, Roméo Dallaire feels ‘rage’ amid global crises | Watch (msn.com) Roméo Dallaire led the UN’s peacekeeping mission when more than […]
Easter Song and Reflections on the Resurrection
***NOTE: Please check out the footnotes for additional, more detailed commentary. Also, there are poetry and songs in the final footnote; and four additional songs below that.*** Please also see two great sermons, one on Good Friday, the other on Easter Sunday, by my colleague Randy Klassen: both in the context of criminal/restorative justice. Easter […]
Paul and Christian Social Responsibility
WN: New Testament scholar Chris Marshall first published this piece in 2000. There is another piece on this site (Is Paul the Father of Misogyny and Antisemitism?), by Pamela Eisenbaum, Pauline scholar, practising Jew, feminist, and professor at a Christian seminary (Iliff School of Theology). She subsequently wrote Paul was not a Christian: The Original […]
Interaction With “Neuroscience’s Existential Crisis”
By Grigori Guitchounts October 27, 2021 image above: A rendering of dendrites (red)—a neuron’s branching processes—and protruding spines that receive synaptic information, along with a saturated reconstruction (multicolored cylinder) from a mouse cortex. Courtesy of Lichtman Lab at Harvard University. WN: The article highlighted below got me thinking . . . In my post Easter Song: […]
What Jason Kenney’s ‘mission accomplished’ moment has reaped for Alberta
By Jason Markusoff September 15, 2021 photo above: Jason Kenney speaks on July 12 at the Premier’s annual Stampede breakfast in Calgary. (Jeff McIntosh/CP) WN: Jason Kenney, a conservative Catholic, should go back and read Proverbs 16:18: Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. My wife and I attended a Memorial for […]
This entire country is haunted
By Alicia Elliott July 12, 2021 photo above: The Mohawk Institute Residential School, referred to by former students as ‘the Mush Hole’ (Photograph by Alex Jacobs-Blum) WN: This statement from the article highlighted below haunts me: These acts were done on behalf of every non-Indigenous family who proudly calls themselves Canadians, because this is what […]
Book Review of Christianity and Pluralism, Ron Dart and J. I. Packer, Lexham Press, 2019; 70 pages
Book Review of Christianity and Pluralism, Ron Dart and J. I. Packer, Lexham Press, 2019; 70 pages WN: This brief missive offers much to consider and chew on. excerpts: In this reviewer’s experience, there is none so fundamentalist as one who has grown to reject what once was held near and dear. (Not of course, […]
Saying Goodbye to Sam
Oct 28, 2019 Opinion | TD originals sketch above: Mr. Fish / Truthdig Chris Hedges Columnist Chris Hedges is a Truthdig columnist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a New York Times best-selling author, a professor in the college degree program offered to New Jersey state prisoners by Rutgers… And so much more! WN: Chris Hedges is […]