Archive for December, 2011
Why do Primates Kill their own Kind? A Christmas Epistle to Anglican Archbishop Fred Hiltz
Dear Fred, You may have heard of Crazy Walter, since he collapsed the pomp and dignity of one of your predecessors on a memorable spring day in 1990, at the Vancouver seminary I attended. Walt went on to a street corner preaching in Toronto and the kind of insane joy so unfamiliar to the Church [...]
‘Tis the Season to be Brain Dead, but Listen up Anyway: A Holiday Message and an Invitation to Anglican Bishop Bob (“The Shredder”) Bennett and other assorted Scrooges
Dear Bob, I hear you’ve told all your staff they’ll be fired if they talk to anyone about the documents you’re sitting on, concerning your Mush Hole Indian residential school where we’ve been unearthing tiny bones that are likely human. That’s pretty harsh, Bob. It is Christmas, after all. And it’s not as if [...]
The Bone that Could Change Everything: A Time to End our Complicity in Murder, and Reinvent Canada
by Kevin D. Annett The tiny bone weighs hardly anything, and yet it is the weightiest evidence in Canadian history. The forensic specialists are nearly definite that it’s the upper thigh bone of a small child, maybe four or five years old. This month, their tests will confirm what I felt was true when I [...]