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Israel, Palestine, Canada and Trying to Understand

I finished Yves Engler’s book on Israel and Canada while I’m here, along with Chomsky and Ilan Pappé’s book: Gaza in Crisis. What a history we (Canada) have with modern Israel, the settlements, Zionism, weapon trade, military training, economic support, maintaining the apartheid policies and oppressing/murdering the Palestinian people. It’s sickening and further disenfranchises me …

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Identity vs Meaning

Identity and meaning are two different concepts that I have been thinking about lately, especially in how they connect. I have some friends who were raised as Christians.  Overtime, as they read and grew they began to disassociate themselves from any meaning from the idea of Christianity.  The identity was no longer meaningful for them. I …

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On Being Safe

I have realized that I have gone through much of my life not being a safe person for many people. I remember the first time I realized this about myself.  I had family visiting from out of town.  It was my first year of university.  I would only see this family every few years.  I …

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A Thanksgiving Prayer

[Picture is one I took in Iceland, it was an unforgettable moment of gratitude and awe that has never left.] Each morning the sun rises We are overwhelmed with what lies ahead We are anxious about what’s left to be done We are feeling inadequate to all of what life brings The hours bleed into …

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Local Support of Line 9 Shut Down

Just before Christmas, a few women took it upon themselves to shut down Line 9 as an act of resistance against the corporations persistence to overlook their responsibilities towards the land and people they have agreements with.  The three women shut down the pipeline’s manual hand wheel and bike locked their necks to the valve. …

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The Spectrum of Meaning

Last night I found myself in a fascinating conversation with friends about the differences between us.  It started when they were explaining the romantic notion of a book/story like Into the Wild, or Johnny Cash.  Two of them were trying to explain to me the attraction to such a story.  That there was some sort …

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Guise Podcast: exploring male intimate relationships

The last year has been an exploration of vulnerability for me that has competely altered the way I have understood myself and my relationship to others. From our Men’s Vulnerability Group, understanding myself and what vulnerability means for me and the balancing act of how this works practically all of these things have established a new foundation …

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On Sharing Convictions

Lately, I’ve been thinking about the idea of why we share convictions. With my evangelical background, it is very natural for me to want to tell everyone the things that I am convicted about.  I’ve been questioning that natural feeling as of late. Take a vegetarian for example.  Why do I know who is a …

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