Over the season of Lent this blog and the MSA blog focused on the broad theme of reconciliation. Lent is now well and truly over but our need for reconciliation …
I have been thinking about those creatures that resemble each other so closely they seem twins—alligators and crocodiles, dolphins and porpoises, camels and dromedaries, bees and wasps, ostriches and emus. …
A wake-up call…today’s college students will be the first generation to inhabit an America that is no longer dominantly white! So how can we all get ready to celebrate our …
Life can sometimes feel like a game. The ancients saw gods as toying with us, rolling dice to decide our fate, making bizarre bets with one another about our choices. …
I sit here on Ash Wednesday thinking about reconciliation. Webster’s defines reconciliation as the resolution of differences. And my body reminds me of how long it has been overtaxed. I …
Soul care or care of our inner spiritual life is a lifelong process. It is worthwhile during this Lenten season to reexamine it. Procrastination is one of our favorite habits, …
“For God was pleased for all fullness to reside in him, and through him to reconcile all things to himself…” — Colossians 19-20a (USC) Indigenous peoples of the world have an inherent …
Until 2005, I lived in the United States with a “green card,” the document that allows immigrants to live and work, but not vote, in the country. At a young …
One of my favourite books is Parker Palmer’s A Hidden Wholeness. Drawing on Thomas Merton’s phrase there is in all things a hidden wholeness, Parker explains that: Wholeness does not mean perfection: it …
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