Politics

Flashback

I don’t live in the States, and haven’t watched TV since the NHL playoffs ended, so I’ve missed most of the coverage of Reagan’s funeral. I’ve seen enough,

The world needs a hero

I’m not discussing my political preferences in this space, but I will admit that the latest Conservative ads reveal a certain super-hero quality about Stephen Harper I haven’t seen before. Okay,

Do we have the will?

A commencement challenge by Bono: The fact is that this generationóyours, my generationóthat can look at the poverty, weíre the first generation that can look at poverty and disease, look across the ocean

This time it’s us

When I went to seminary, my Hebrew prof just loved Amos, the obscure prophet to Israel. The book of Amos has one of those trick beginnings. He starts off by clobbering all the