Young statisticians in love. Can you imagine their wedding? If you do, please don’t imagine anything stuffy or stilted. Because…
Year: 2016
Economic Inequality
Vancouver, Canada can be an expensive Paradise. Our family is lucky to live in a diverse neighborhood, with cottages that…
Death of a Cat
“Mom, mom, mom, mom,” says Eli. “Not-Koi is in front of our house and he’s not moving.” Not-Koi is a…
The Ninth of Av
When my mother, of blessed memory, was in her mid-fifties, she attended a self-help psychology workshop. Afterwards, she said, “This…
Tantric Sex
What is Tantric sex? Can you learn it in a year, for $5750, as some teachers have claimed? Probably not! Hindu…
Culture Clash
You can’t take a course called ‘The Land is Sacred’ in the Native Ministries program without going out on the…
Is the Bible an Indigenous Text?
Is the Bible an Indigenous Text? That’s the question my colleague Rev. Ray Aldred, a status Cree from Northern Alberta, posed to…
Wars of the Lord
There it is, slipped so casually into the Biblical narrative: Thus it was said in the Book of the Wars…
Broken-hearted Prayer
So many dead in racial violence in one short, chaotic American week. Dear Lord. Dear Lord. Whose heart isn’t breaking?…