Sassoon

Posted on November 13, 2007 by stephen t berg / 1 Comment

Since I mentioned Siegfried Sassoon in the last post as a kind of “anti-Flanders” poet, it’s only right I post a poem. Survivors No doubt...

Peace/Religion/Violence

Lest we Remember

Posted on November 11, 2007 by stephen t berg / 0 Comment

Perhaps I wasn’t really listening, perhaps I too was caught up in a kind of collective amnesia over the evil of war that seems is at its height ...

Christianity/Peace/Politics/Spirituality

Dalai Lama’s lesson for Stephen Harper

Posted on October 31, 2007 by stephen t berg / 3 Comments

Credit PM Stephen Harper for officially welcoming the Dalai Lama, a first for Canadian politics. Leaders of the past Liberal government, hyper sensitive over Ch...

Christianity/Peace/Spirituality/Violence

Righteousness and Peace Kiss

Posted on August 27, 2007 by stephen t berg / 0 Comment

…righteousness and peace will kiss each other. (Psalm 85) Righteousness is a word that probably needs a reclamation project behind it. But here...