Archive for December, 2012
Stupid No More: Waking up to the Uses and Abuses of our Discontent or, Follow the Money, Dummy
“If we assume responsibility for our self or the world around us we will be harmed by the permanently raised and threatening arm of authority. And so, to avoid this danger, we learn to become servile and dependent victims who are acted upon, or who act at the command and initiative of others.” - Victor Frankl, [...]
If God were Alive Today: Remembering Maisie Shaw and Berny Cameron
A Christmas Reflection to be read, if possible, in every Catholic and United Church service across Canada It’s well into the night here in Nanaimo, and although the cold rain beats incessantly at our home, the fire inside is roaring. Carol is asleep next to me on the couch and my stomach is filled [...]
Not if it isn’t true
Being Christmas, this is the season of lies; so it’s a good time to talk about healing and reconciliation. Canadians, especially, seem obsessed with those two words these days, and prattle on about them with the kind of hopeless desperation displayed by parents who keep insisting to their maturing children that there really is a [...]