Larry is a caretaker. The kind of caretaker who takes care of people. Well, it’s more like he gives clients the tools to learn to take care of themselves.  Like anyone in a helping profession he bumps up against secondary PTSD in his life because he is meant to do what he does. Listening with [...]

Believe it or not, that’s not a window, that’s a spider web. Typical Canadian spring, we have sunshine one day,  snow or rain the next.  One of the first creatures out every year are spiders and they get busy spinning. It snowed and I was quite impressed with how much weigh this web held. No sign of the builder, once [...]

Tomorrow a group of evangelicals in the US are going to try to take a word back.
Evangelical - Good news.
I don’t think they have a prayer.
 Evangelical has become a word so entangled with the US Republican party and special interest groups, it’s meaning has changed forever in the minds of many in the world.
Which is [...]

First, I will attend the early service at my local evangelical megachurch, New Life Excitement Amazing Church Franchise #165. About half an hour into worship (maybe 1/4 of a worship chorus), I will inevitably convert to Catholicism. I will hurry over to mass at Our Lady of Dubious Likenesses in Quesadillas, but find myself so [...]

In May 2005 a 16 year old’s MySpace entry got world wide attention.
Zach’s friends knew he came from a conservative evangelical home, they knew he was gay. He knew he was gay, and what would happen when he told his parents. He  wrote about their response on his blog.
Somewhat recently, “I told my parents I was [...]