HISTORY, COMMENTARY, COMMEMORATION
HISTORY
ONE MORE WAR CRIMINAL IN CANADA – October 12, 2023
Tramp Printer Extraordinary: British Columbia’s John “Truth” Houston – March 8, 2022
Adolf Hitler and “the luck of the devil” – July 10, 2021
Wellesley Tudor Pole and the Big Ben Silent Minute – November 7, 2019
Etty Hillesum Safeguards God: The Story of Her Spiritual Transformation during the Holocaust – November 2018
Henry Adams and T.S. Eliot Together at Armageddon – November 2018
COMMENTARY – GENERAL
THE SACRIFICED, A LAMENT “Never Let Me Go” echoes the Holocaust and the 2023-24 destruction of Gaza – April 2024
Colonialism, Comment pages and the good and the bad of Canada’s past – September 2023
Families, homelessness, and a municipal opportunity – October 2022
Facing up to crisis PART 1 OF 2 Winston Churchill and the climate emergency – October 2022
Facing up to crisis PART 2 OF 2 Inaction on global warming is a form of Russian Roulette – October 2022
B.C. forestry practices and “code red for humanity” – September 2021
Old-growth logging and climate change: Tiny B.C. First Nations asked to show great wisdom – August 2021
Climate change remediation and social responsibility are bedeviled by the status quo two-step – April 2021 (updated)
Pastor Martin Niemöller’s confession, heard anew amid climate crisis – October 2019
Conversations about the past can be tricky: More on the Sir John A. Macdonald statue in Victoria, B.C. – August 2019
Greta Thunberg and the school strike for climate movement – May 2019
Emergency of climate change is upon us – January 2019
B.C.’s Proportional Representation Referendum: An opportunity to address polarization and stalemate – November 2018
What to do with controversial statues? The City of Victoria and Sir John A. Macdonald – August 2018
Making sense of the Orkambi debate in British Columbia – December 2017
COMMENTARY – SPIRITUALITY
Our choices, conscious or not, determine who we are – February 2024
Agency, blessing and spiritual partnering – January 2024
What values underlie our thinking? – August 2023
Safeguarding the sacred amid the Holocaust – January 2023
Protecting our children, seven generations ahead – August 2022
A New Silent Minute for the 21st-Century: Acknowledging and Holding Humanity’s Uncertain Future – April 2022
Living by vow: Where hope meets intention and will – February 2022
Holocaust remembrance: Etty Hillesum’s story in her own words – January 2022
Visible and invisible: The interlacing of worlds – August 2021
From Grenades to Grace: The power of certain words and experiences – January 2021
Martin Luther King Jr., George Floyd, and the awful grace of God – July 2020
“I can’t breathe”: Humanity’s need for a spiritual renaissance – June 2020
Coping With Coronavirus and Building A Better World: Wit, grit, and inner light – April 2020
Mr. Rogers’ neighbourhood and the gifts of grace – January 2020
What do Malala, Greta Thunberg, and Alex Trebek have in common? – June 2019
COMMEMORATION
John T. Shields: An Appreciation of the Author of The Priest Who Left His Religion