by Diane | Jan 11, 2021 | Ethics, Politics
All over the world, we are witnessing police forces and security guards attacking citizens for not wearing a mask, walking outside, playing hockey, surfing alone in the ocean, sitting around a family dinner table, opening their businesses. The police are following...
by Diane | Jan 4, 2021 | Ethics, Politics
Allan Bloom, author of the Closing of the American Mind,1987, wrote that many of us find our purpose and our intellectual and spiritual connection to the world through the stories and wisdom of the Bible, unlike many people who live with “an open-ended future...
by Diane | Dec 16, 2020 | Ethics, Politics
What happens when we take freedom for granted? There was a time when many knew the poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller who was in concentration camps from 1937 to 1945, first in Sachsenhausen, then in Dachau. Niemöller had preached against the Nazi...
by Diane | Dec 5, 2020 | Ethics, Politics
“We are all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.” ~J.K Rowling I watch NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. During the pandemic he has introduced us to many “essential” front line health care workers who share their...
by Diane | Nov 29, 2020 | Ethics, Religion / Spirituality
Canadian PM Justin Trudeau recently commented on the tragic murder of a French teacher, 47-year-old teacher Samuel Paty, who had used the caricatures of the Prophet Mohamed as a teaching tool during a classroom discussion of free speech. He was beheaded.That...
by Diane | Nov 19, 2020 | Ethics, Politics
Alexis de Tocqueville wrote: “Without ideas held in common there is no common action and without common action there may still be men but there is no social body in order that society should exist and a fortiori that a society should prosper it is necessary...
