Occasionally in these pages, I have confessed my own confusion as to why MPs who say they hold similar religious beliefs effectively belittle one another in the name of politics. It’s true that Jesus stated that God and Caesar must exist side-by-side, yet he consistently put the emphasis on actions of love, respect and justice. [...]
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Having God but Missing the Star
Posted in Faith, Non-partisanship, Personal, Politics on December 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Grinch Does It … Again
Posted in Faith, Media, Non-partisanship, Politics on December 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
London Free Press Columnist Ian Gillespie is a staple on the city’s media beat. His articles and blogs usually take a look at city life from different angles.
I thought I’d include his latest blog post. I’m mentioned in it but that’s not why I include it here. Parliament is broken; we all kind of know [...]
Foreign Tales
Posted in Environment, Faith, Politics on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Two big embarrassments for Canada this week from overseas. We all know of the first – Copenhagen, and the trainwreck that is sure to come from this country’s position on climate change. The saddest part of it all is that we’re not surprised anymore. We’ve failed consistently for two decades to effectively fight what will [...]
Plenty Of Room In This Inn
Posted in Faith, Personal on December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It was Otto von Bismark who declared that “politics is the art of the possible,” and we have just witnessed again another fine example of average citizens doing politics (social, local, federal, and international) in a manner that eclipses much of what we do in Ottawa these days.
You’ve heard the story of Imagine Adoption a [...]
Time To Man The Lifeboats?
Posted in Environment, Faith, Politics, The New Internationalism on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The government’s attempts to silence its critics took a strange twist and a new low this week as CIDA suddenly cut funding to a major faith-based group it has worked with for almost four decades. KAIROS was initially formed to help pull together the voices of the Anglican Church, Christian Reformed, Evangelical Lutherans, Presbyterian, Quakers, [...]
A Hero Falls To Earth
Posted in Faith, Personal, The New Internationalism on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Things seem so bleak in Ottawa these days that at times we’re forced to look far afield for inspiration. Well, we got it yesterday – a gift to Canada from space. No, not some visitor from another solar system or even a meteorite, but a new hero from this country who has just finished accomplishing some remarkable [...]
Israel The Loser In Six Days of War
Posted in Faith, Non-partisanship, Politics on November 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Why would he do this? We need both our friends working together and he has just split them. That can’t be good.” These were the words quoted me by one of my community’s Jewish leaders concerning Stephen Harper and his party’s frontal assault on the Liberal Party in labeling them “anti-Semitic.” His consternation has turned [...]
Out Of This World
Posted in Faith, Personal on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It was one of those wonderful moments that happen all too rarely in an MP’s life. My kids were doing their homework while we were all seated on the couch and it ended up in a wrestling match. Suddenly my Blackberry rang with a message. I looked at my wife and wondered why it was [...]
Game-changers
Posted in Faith, Politics, The New Internationalism on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For a numbers of days I couldn’t go anywhere without folks asking what I thought of Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Like pretty well everyone else, I was shocked at the announcement – not in a bad way, just in a “I didn’t see that one coming,” kind of way. Judging from the media [...]
A Recession-proof Thanksgiving
Posted in Faith, Personal on October 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Southern Ontario hasn’t experienced anything like this in decades. Of the province’s 240,000 job losses, that vast majority come from this region. Tens of thousands of individuals and their troubled families move from termination, to Employment Insurance to social assistance – a mass of humanity on the move while yet rooted in their respective communities [...]
Leave It At The Door
Posted in Faith, Non-partisanship, Politics on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I attended a special breakfast this morning hosted by a particular faith group. There were seven Liberals there by my count, a couple of NDP, and a number of Conservatives. The subject of the session regarded voting trends in Canada and how this particular faith group’s members voted across the country.
For Liberals, it was an [...]
Just Imagine
Posted in Faith, Personal, Politics on September 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Months ago, families attempting to adopt children from Ethiopia received the shattering news that the adoption agency they were working through was declaring sudden bankruptcy. Most of us recall the pain reflected in the faces and comments of the prospective parents and our hearts went out them. Their hopes were finished.
Except they weren’t. From the [...]
Have A Little Faith
Posted in Faith, The New Internationalism on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For a man at the pinnacle of power and one of the most important world leaders of the last 15 years, he was disarming. Tony Blair’s demeanour was one of humility, warmth and an endearingly mild self-deprecation. Forced to file in to the luncheon at the Royal York Hotel with other dignitaries, it was clear [...]
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