“This is not who we are” Text: Matthew 2 (the visit of the Magi; the flight to Egypt) * Video of complete service What was revealed on Epiphany in Washington DC this past Wednesday? On January 6, a day in which the church …

Five years ago, an Epiphany sermon about the dark epiphany of Trump's assault on democracy -- mwucsermons.wordpress.com/2021/01/10/t...

COVID-19 Is Six Today. What We’ve Learned | The Tyee We need cleaner air, which requires changes in medical culture.

COVID-19 Is Six Today. What We've Learned. To start, we need cleaner air, which requires a change in medical culture, by @crof.bsky.social thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... via @thetyee.ca

Dear Gen Z: You’re not watching the world end – you’re about to build a new one Despite older generations’ doomsday prophecies and belated apologies for the state of the world, today’s young people are now on the brink of leading the greatest era of rebuilding and growth this cen...

For the first time in 15 years, my end-of-year essay strikes an optimistic note -- not for the year that's ended, which was catastrophic, or the one ahead. But I observe that our condition will necessitate an era of great growth, invention, employment...

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Huge majorities of Ontario voters consistently vote for parties other than the Tories -- 58% in 2022, 57% in 2025. But the Tories win huge majorities because of Ontario's antidemocratic FPTP voting system. Don't blame the voters. Blame the system

He was racist, sexist, and ignorant. These were not liabilities, but political strengths, unfortunately.

The Nation That Trump Could Never Break Canada didn’t just resist, they reminded the rest of us how to endure

“…this morning, from a war zone half a world away, I was reading about your election. And for the first time in days, I exhaled.

A small, almost invisible breath. Relief.

And then came gratitude…

You didn’t just choose kindness or experience…

You chose not to flirt with fascism.”

From Ukraine.

Is Warren Kinsella aware that many Canadians don't care about the obscure lunar calendar reckonings and mythological storytelling that lie behind the shifting dates of Easter?

And what if Alberta votes Liberal? I think it could happen.

First Past the Post systems combined with 3 or 4 main parties, means the majority of votes don't count. Only proportional representation ensures every vote counts. Until we have democracy (i.e. PR), I will vote for whomever is most likely to defeat the Conservative Party in my riding.

Celebrating what? A presentation on the United Church of Canada’s 100th anniversary that I made on Sunday, March 23rd, at SSUC (Edmonton’s “Spiritual Seekers United in Community,” also known …

My latest on the death (but, sadly, not the resurrection) of the United Church of Canada wayofcrossucc.wordpress.com/2025/03/20/c...

If you see this, repost it. If legacy media won't tell everyone that change is wanted, you have to.

If 57% of the electorate don't want a PC government, but that's what we get, voting doesn't matter. PR guarantees that each vote counts.

It's called polling. Pollsters survey 2,000 people and claim the results are accurate 19 times out of 20. On Thursday, Ontario ran a poll and more than 4 million responded.

Doug Ford was rejected by a majority -- 57%. The huge non-PC majority voted Liberal, NDP, Green or other. And yet, Ford's Tories won a huge majority of the seats. Ontario is not a democracy because it doesn't use proportional representation.

If 100% of the electorate had voted, the result would likely have been the same -- 57% voting non-PC, but with Ford getting 100% of the power. Voting matters, but democracy (I.e. proportional representation) matters even more.

A big majority of Ontario's voters -- 57% -- rejected Ford. But with Ontario's anti-democratic FPTP voting system, Ford won another victory. Don't get mad, get proportional representation.

57% of those who voted chose a non-PC candidate. Under FPTP, Ontario is not a democracy.

NO RETURN TO NORMAL A Message To My Fellow Parliamentarians

Here's my latest reflection on a lesson I learned from a woman who was in the second tower on 9/11.
When the world is turned upside down taking action is the only way to survive.
Our democracy is under threat but politicians are still living in 2024.
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Video: Doug Ford says his support of Donald Trump is unwavering CityNews reporter Cynthia Mulligan spoke with former city councillor and longtime conservative Doug Ford about Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump

Doug Ford's enthusiastic support for Trump in October 2016, less than a week after the "grab em by the pussy" scandal broke should be made into ads by NDP and Liberal teams and run everywhere until Feb 27 -- toronto.citynews.ca/video/2016/1...

Proportional representation now

Trudeau says not implementing electoral reform is the biggest regret of his 9+ years in power. I couldn't agree more. Maybe 2025 will finally be the time when Canada tries democracy with some kind of proportional representation.

If the fools who run the Democratic Party of Iowa had created an app that quickly reported the results of the Iowa Caucus of February 3, 2020, the headlines from the day would have been about the shock of Pete Buttigieg becoming the first openly gay person to win a state primary election.

Who knows how Buttigieg as President would have handled the genocide in Gaza since Oct 7, 2023. I can only imagine it would have been better than Biden's acquiescence to Netanyahu's fascism. One can always dream, I guess.

And if Biden, having placed fourth in Iowa, fifth in New Hampshire and third in Nevada, had then dropped out of the race, I can imagine Buttigieg winning South Carolina, and then moving on to Super Tuesday as the Democratic front-runner.

And if Buttigieg had been the winner of both Iowa and New Hampshire, it is easy to imagine him coming in second behind Sanders on Feb 22 in Nevada instead of coming in third behind Sanders and Biden.

Instead, the headlines were about the debacle of the party not being able to release results until Fri. of that week. If Iowa had reported its results quickly on Feb 3, it is easy to imagine Buttigieg winning the New Hampshire primary on Feb 11 instead of coming a close second to Bernie Sanders.

Vision 2020 Texts: “Continue” by Maya Angelou, and Matthew 2:1-18 (the flight to Egypt) On Christmas Day, a controversy broke out on Twitter when U.S Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg sent out …

As many of us dread the inauguration of Trump and of dream about alternative timelines, I offer a sermon from five years ago today about Pete Buttigieg, whom I wish was now preparing for the start of a second term as President of the USA mwucsermons.wordpress.com/2020/01/05/v...

A huge majority of those who voted in 2022 (59%) chose a non-PC candidate. Nevertheless, Ford won a huge majority of the seats -- because Ontario does not have proportional representation. If only Ontario were a democracy.

The Last Christmas Eve Text: Luke 2:1-20 (the birth of Jesus) “I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old, familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the words repeat of peace on earth, good-will to men!” Th…

Here's a sermon of mine from 10 years ago tonight that keys off this song from 1863 and the Christmas Eve truce of 1914 mwucsermons.wordpress.com/2014/12/25/t...