Circling the Elephant: Why Difference Matters By John Thatamanil Recently, my wife and I dared to enter an old local haunt in her hometown, Big Bad John’s, a bar in Victoria, BC. With bras on Read more…
Fire and the Transfiguration of Paradise By Sarah Pike On the morning of November 8, 2018, the world turned silver and a shadow of its normal self. A black cloud of smoke from the Camp Read more…
On Absent Priests, the Dignity of Women, and Refugees By Anna Mercedes In a Roman Catholic monastery near the prairies of the American Midwest, more than a hundred Sisters gathered to mark the Sunday of Read more…
\\ // By Cleo Mikutta – III – // \\ On a cruise ship caught in a tropical storm, the chlorine water in the indoor swimming pool has begun to imitate the violent Read more…
What is Your Part? Reflections on “Action” in a Time of Crisis By Susannah Crockford As part of my research on climate change, I recently interviewed a retired civil engineer who worked for decades in Read more…
Proud to be Bird-Brained By Jay Johnston I sat awkwardly aware of the tears coalescing and starting to slide down my cheeks. There I was, in the audience at a small community hall on a Read more…
Art Meets Astrology: Towards a Broader Understanding of Art History By Klemens Ludwig Traditional art historians and scholars ignore or even deny the importance of astrology in art. This limited view had led to some Read more…
Preserving Religious Freedom When (Some) Churches Abuse their Members? By Dion Forster Religion plays a significant role in the lives of most South Africans. In the last census (2011), just over 84 percent of citizens Read more…
The “Worthy Opposition”: Learning to Learn By Marcia Pally We are going deaf. We worry about political polarization, the rise of the radical right and so on, but there’s a deafness afoot that is pre-political Read more…
\\ // By Cleo Mikutta – V – // The wide-eyed girls came every night. When they opened their raincoats, a scent of bitter honey would pour out. They handed in plastic bags Read more…
