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Pico Iyer, Leonard Cohen and Etty Hillesum: Masters of the Journey, Servants and Celebrants of Life PATRICK S. WOLFE In his 2025 book, Aflame: Learning from Silence, Pico Iyer often illuminates the beauty and sanctity “of clarity and silence” with … Continue reading →

Progress on global warming despite information wars and an emerging “ecological cold war”[1] PATRICK S. WOLFE In 2003, as President and CEO of EnCana, the oil and natural gas company, Gwyn Morgan was called “the most powerful man in Canada’s … Continue reading →

Dame Julian’s “Showings” and life’s challenging road PATRICK S. WOLFE If you’re like me, you’ve experienced how life’s road can be going along smoothly when, without warning, it turns rocky. Sometimes the reason or reasons for the change can be … Continue reading →

The scientists, the submariner and the “little cat feet” of climate change PATRICK S. WOLFE “The slowness of climate change is a fairy tale, perhaps as pernicious as the one that says it isn’t happening at all,” David Wallace-Wells wrote … Continue reading →

Tracy Cochran and the reality behind the world[1] PATRICK S. WOLFE Tracy Cochran is editorial director of Parabola magazine, which seeks to illuminate truths common to every spiritual tradition. She believes: “Well-being requires a deep encounter with our experience.”[2] She … Continue reading →

Neil Douglas-Klotz’s Aramaic interpretation of God, heaven, and the Lord’s Prayer[1] Readers are advised that all the translations cited in this article have been described by a translator of Hebrew and Aramaic texts as “incorrect …. massively incorrect.” See the … Continue reading →

Did Hitler do some good things? PATRICK S. WOLFE Two weeks before the 2024 U.S. presidential election, a statement attributed to former President Donald Trump by his former chief of staff, General John Kelly, in an interview with The New … Continue reading →

From tariffs to global warming:  Getting used to the Big Squeeze[1] PATRICK S. WOLFE We live in really challenging times. Premier David Eby’s Jan. 15 commentary about the potential harm of U.S. tariffs bore the title, “B.C. prepared for economic … Continue reading →

What qualities do we want in a prime minister? PATRICK S. WOLFE David Merner’s Times Colonist commentary, “Justin Trudeau: The good, the bad and the ugly,” published on Jan. 8, 2025, two days after Trudeau announced he is resigning as … Continue reading →

The Peacemaker: Protecting the future with a thousand-year-old teaching[1] PATRICK S. WOLFE Toby Ord, an Australian philosopher of Ethics at Oxford University, “has systemically ranked existential risks.” Most dangerous, he believes, is A.I., to which he assigns “a one-in-ten chance … Continue reading →