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White and Blue lives have never not mattered --- never --- NOT EVER. Black lives have seldom mattered. That is the issue right now. The best way I have ever heard it put is below. If my wife comes to me in obvious pain and asks "Do you love me?" an answer of "I love everyone." would be truthful...

Trump twists history of Churchill and FDR to cover up pandemic denialism - CNNPolitics Winston Churchill did not minimize the threat for the sake of peace and calm but took his place as a great leader by telling his people the simple truth. Following the disaster of Dunkirk he spoke to the...

Tomorrow is "patriot day" in the USA. As a Canadian I wish all my American friends a happy and fulfilling day. I am particularly fond of the definition of a patriot by a great American: "Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it." ~~~ Mark Twain

The Problem With American Christianity Isn’t Jesus July 19, 2020 / John Pavlovitz I meet thousands of people every year who rightly recoil against Christianity in America, who are fully sickened by its insidious influence in our political system; who see it as a toxic presence in our...

This was the title of another thread to which I am unable to respond. I do not believe that God has in any way caused this affliction either as a punishment or as a test. To me, God simply does not work in that way. But that does not mean that is absent in all of this. God can be found in the...

Okay, We Give Up We feel so ashamed April 1, 2005 There's no easy way to admit this. For years, helpful letter writers told us to stick to science. They pointed out that science and politics don't mix. They said we should be more balanced in our presentation of such issues as creationism...

Why Canada's response to COVID-19 is so different from that of the U.S. Andrew Cohen Comparing the character of nations is risky and imprecise. In the Age of Contagion, though, it offers a window into how the peoples of the world are coping. Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore have...

Hillary Would Be Leading Us Right Now April 25, 2018December 28, 2019 / John Pavlovitz Several times a day I meet or encounter people like you. In a conversation about the unquestionably precarious days in this country; someone visibly...

I regret having to approach you in this way but I am restricted in the posts that I can respond to and even further restricted in the posts that I can even view. I cannot even contact you by private message so this seems to be my only option. You are a prolific starter of threads. I find the...

This may be seriously dating me, but ---

From McLean's Magazine here in Canada: The revenge of King George III took 244 years, but it is here. His rebellious colonies have abandoned their revolutionary ideas of republicanism and come back to embrace an authoritarian monarchy. That this revenge should be visited on the United States...

I recently came across two papers by a Bible scholar that ask some very challenging questions. Here are the abstracts: [presented at the American Academy of Religion Meeting, Quebec City, May 2006] Taking Paul at his Word Barrie A. Wilson, PhD Professor, Humanities and Religious Studies...

Recently we have seen a number of topics where a poll was taken about the most admired this or that. I am asking for people to propose the "most respected living religious figure in the world". List three in descending order of respect. I would further ask that responders give no explanation or...

Christmas in the Trenches --- by John McCutcheon My name is Francis Tolliver. I come from Liverpool. So long ago the war was waiting for me after school. To Belgium and to Flanders, to Germany to here I fought for King and country I love dear. 'Twas Christmas in the trenches, where the...

In honour of the day: What’s this empire coming to? Now they want us to stop greeting people with "Io Saturnalia!? "We have all these different cultures in Rome" they tell us, "We shouldn’t offend anyone" they tell us, "We’ve got to be inclusive". We’ve got the barbarians from the north with...

Today Canadians sadly remember a blot in our history that took place 30 years ago. On December 6, 1989, Marc Lépine entered a mechanical engineering class at the École Polytechnique and ordered the women and men to opposite sides of the classroom. He separated nine women, instructing the men to...

There are approximately two billion children (persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa does not visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Buddhist (except maybe in Japan) religions, this reduces the workload for Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million (according to the...

(CNN)Africa has long been regarded as the cradle of humankind, but scientists seeking a more specific location have narrowed in on northern Botswana as the "homeland" for all modern humans, according to a new study. There, south of the Greater Zambezi River Basin, which includes northern...

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Parable of the Talents The parable of the Talents (Mt 25:14-28) is about a servant who acts honorably by burying money given in trust, courageously denouncing an exploitive master, and as a result is consigned to extinction for his audacity. Most people understand the story as Matthew has (cf...