Deja vu — old familiar feelings, flashbacks, increased heart rate, and even, the mind scrambling over options of how to have a different trajectory perhaps. We all get it. And when it comes to that family member who appears to be going on a predictable groundhog round, we groan inwardly…

Our ideas of snow are kind ones. We gravitate towards postcard images of pristine white snow, thick like cream on cars and roofs. We visualize gentle snow drifts as we stand among trees relinquishing foliage and bracing for increased darkness and exposure of their skeletal forms. Video footage of a…

More than territories or trophies, each of us fights this one battle most insistently: we want to be happy. It seems so fundamentally necessary that we use it to justify all kinds of behaviours: as long as he/she/they are happy. Evidence for this happy-ness search is everywhere we look, and…

This God coming as human. It can sound like a charming fable, an ancient myth — a supernatural being shape-shifting, as it were. Except it isn’t — not when we examine the details. I’m slightly embarrassed to admit that I have never been good with details, being more of a…

- insights from Nehemiah and an old national song For more than a decade now, the momentum and pressure regarding gender identity and sexual preferences have weighed heavily on Christians. On one hand, to have a law that criminalizes a private act, and one that will not be enforced seems…

Probably because of my faith and my own impoverished origins, I have always cared for the poor and marginal. Positively because of my leaning and learning, I have always carried an inquiring mind about the way things are. This means that I always wonder if things can change for the…

How does one fall asleep? When exactly does the falling begin, and when do we land in the land of blissful snooze? Every one of us has sleep stories. The bed- the one we built, the one we saw at Aunt Marge’s and would never own, the bed we never…

The Eighth Day. In the Christian tradition, it refers to a brand new beginning. The hope of resurrection. The renewal of all things, from hearts and hopes to hinterlands and homelands. It is as if we buck time, interrupt its rhythmic thrum, and introduce a disjuncture. There are seven days…