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Spiritual Formation
Sidney Poitier, of A Patch of Blue, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, To Sir with Love fame, is unique on the American stage of life. He ushered authentic spiritual formation on and off the silver screen. As a young white Canadian girl, I watched these movies. His performances within them touched me to the bone and reached into my pores. It is hardly any wonder that he received the Screen Actor…
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Make N.A. Natives Visible
Make North American First Nations Peoples visible and with their own voice.
On my Twitter feed today, I discovered Christine Genier resigned from her Yukon Morning radio show-host position after delivering a few choice words concerning the CBC’s journalistic standards. The standards made it difficult for her to speak as an Indigenous woman. The standard requires reporters not to give their personal opinions: this part I understand.
Why does the CBC fail to actively…
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Defund Police?
Policing is still mired in the challenges of today while carrying the baggage of the past.
Dr. William Tafoya
Modern policing emerged reactive during the Industrial Revolution in the early 1800s. The 1960s alerted us to the need for more proactive oversight but has been sporadic at best.
Identifying offenders and documenting disorderly and criminal acts has become part of an officer’s…
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Harriet Tubman is Close to My Heart
Harriet Tubman is Close to My Heart. Her inner strength and resolve carries on in those she saved.
Much smaller than her American home, Harriet’s home on Welland Avenue in St. Catharines had become a tailor’s shop by the time my brother pointed the place out to me. Somehow, before my parents bought our house in the new subdivisions in the north end to make room for my coming on the scene, my mother, father, paternal grandmother, two young brothers, and a dog had sandwiched themselves in…
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Proclaim in Crisis
Proclaim in Crisis: what are the positive possibilities and the cautionary tales? We all are responsible to heed warnings to be kind, be calm, and be safe.
The wise person discerns the characteristic ways of human history and extropolates the future without needing to know precisely what comes next. When we hold a solemn agreement between one another, our actions are investments of our very being.
Our concerns are two-fold. We are concerned about personal survival, and we are concerned for public security. Choose life: justice, wholeness,…
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Convergence of Griefs
Convergence of Griefs. What can grief teach us? Our feathered bird brained friends can give us cause to pause in these troublesome times.
The thirteenth day of May 2020, my brother Ronald died. Yes, he was residing in a nursing home, and no it wasn’t from COVID-19. He finally succumbed to the Parkinson’s Dementia that he has had to endure for some time. Ron has joined the dream he once had of all the deceased family members looking down on us from the church balcony. But when I look at the griefs we have endured, and that will…
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The Spiderweb of Influence:
The Spiderweb of Influence: nations are vying for a solid piece of the Arctic pie by being in bed with oil and gas companies. Russia and USA rumblings. Canada is in the middle.
Degrees of influence between actors on the world stage knocking on the PMO’s doorÂ
I read today about the Russians doing maneuvers in the Arctic. Following is some background work, researched nine years ago, inspecting the Arctic dynamics. To hazard a pun, global warming has warmed up the special interests of northern nations concerning the Northwest Passage for capital gains.
Oil, gas,…
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Mental Health in Isolation
Between COVID-19 and the horrific murder spree in Nova Scotia Canada this week, it is clear that we need to brush up on how to stay sane, to stay mentally healthy. In particular, how to divert ourseves from the isolation effect of abnormal repetative behaviour/obsessive compulsive disorder with ourselves and with our children.
A segment at the end of Chapter Two “Community Healing” in Lig…
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Sentient Machine?
The future is shaped by our present decisions and subsequent actions.
We understand that we are valuable, but do we really know why?
How are we intelligent?
Are we intelligent?
What does “progress” look like for you?
What does a failure in “progress” look like to you?
In these days of great challenge, where do you find inspiration to move forward, or do you feel your rudder is broken?
It is only…
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Heroic Fantasy
Heroic Fantasy is an engaging gentle read for all ages. A sense of destiny grows and the elements build in a cumulative fashion.
There is one thing a heroic tale is not. It is not episodic. It is cumulative. The heroic questor has a destiny. There is a magical leap from one world into another. We have a glimmer of that experience when we suddenly realize something with such great clarity that we are amazed that it hadn’t occurred to us before.
The key elements of the tale are human nature and world affairs. For C. S.…
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What is Fantasy?
What is Fantasy? We need the creative aspect of fantasy stories more now than ever in the midst of this COVID-19 pandemic. As you read the descriptions of the various types of fantasy genres there are. A list of authors are there for your enrichment.
Fantasy is imaginative thinking, literature of the grotesque, or of dreams and visions, absurdist, unusual, depicting an imaginary and unrealistic world. It is considered a sub-category of the romance genre of chivalry and adventure. Normal settings and physical laws are suspended, wherein magic and enchantment prevail. It has a range of choices: it may be frolicsome or serious, adventurous or…
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The Day of Completion
The Day of Completion. The Sabbath day completes a week's cycle of activity, providing us the ability to stop and reflect on our actions. How might we do better? Christians embrace the Passover story. The teachings of Rabbi Yeshua never die.
The regular Sabbath day. It happens after every six days. It completes the week.
To understand Hebrew spirituality is to understand the steady drive for self improvement, for an honourable growth. The Sabbath rest is pivotal in this cycle. The goal isn’t “perfection” as we have come to understand it, but the completion of what one has begun. You mow the lawn to completion. The weekly…
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Resilience in Adversity
Resilience in Adversity: read to your family, and for yourself, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to have a shared experience with the characters in adversity, a time when honesty and strength are needed for the children to be strong for the future.
There has always been waves of adversity. In these times our resiliency is tested. We are in a wave now in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and forest fire seasons, to name but two. It is timely to recommend an allegory with rich metaphors to watch or read for Easter/Passover weekend.
To be technical, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe of the The Chronicals of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis…
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Good Friday
Good Friday What did Jesus do? Why? Some things just had to change!
It was spring, time to rejoice and reflect despite the COVID-19.
The seder meal, a time to reflect, be humble, be grateful.
Jesus the Anointed still spoke in metaphor at his last sader meal. He did the usual blessing of the bread, broke it as per usual, gave it to his devoted students. Then it changed.
He said, “Take, eat. This is my body.” What?? Then again, he took the cup, gave the…
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The Passover Meal (Pesach)
The Passover Meal (Pesach): inner transformation within and with others. Slowing down to find oneself. Find your burning bush.
Enjoy your metaphorical Seder meal now and in the coming days!
This week, the posts have been exploring metaphor and allegory for deeper understanding, the necessity to hold one’s personal integrity when coming of age, what it means to take up one’s cross, and the god-name in the book of Genesis.
Now to Exodus 3: 1-12 to introduce the Passover story for this Maundy Thursday:
When Moses…
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Perception Filters
Perception Filters: understanding one another is the good soil for growth. Explores metaphor and allegory as tools to cross the divide of misunderstanding and to discover mutual loving care.
Our learning about each other draws on our experiences, our stories, our mythology with metaphor and allegory to convey meaning.
A beautiful example of metaphorical communication was when Captain Jean Luc Picard in the Star Trek: Next Generation television series met a Tamarian captain named Dathon, who spoke in metaphorical language. Dathon’s metaphors were grounded in whole allegorical…
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