Relief for Haiti
Today I’m planning a raid on my own intransigent desires and preoccupations, and perhaps, for a day, get me set round right. I’ve avoided the pictures com...
Category: Poverty
Two 2009 disappointments: Bono and Obama
People at the top are easy targets. In time, their indiscretions, foibles, and misdeeds become scratch, available for we plebes to pick over. And inevitably it ...
Learning from John – ‘Narayan Seva’
This piece, published yesterday in the Edmonton Journal, has, what might be considered in a few church circles, an element of doctrinal truancy. But, who knows,...
Season of belonging
He greeted me with, "I’m not crazy, drunk or violent." I stopped–and considered each of those possibilities. It was already dark, cars str...