What I Learned from Dorothy Day, America’s Catholic Justice Radical
First of all, Dorothy Day taught me that justice begins on our knees. I have never known anyone, not even in monasteries, who…
Killer Whales and the Tanker Trade
Around the “Salish Sea” (southern Georgia Strait, Strait of Juan de Fuca, Puget Sound and the Canadian and American Gulf Islands), there live…
His Best Years Were Treating World-Wide Refugees as Family Members
My father James Easton Jamieson died in his 95th year on January 22. He had what the writer JM Cameron described as a…
Pope Warns That White Nationalism Could Lead to a New Hitler
Pope Francis is warning the world that new, brutal dictatorial regimes could emerge if white nationalism continues unabated. While the Pontiff…
Pope Francis Says Native People Have Rights Over Their Lands
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis insisted that indigenous groups must give prior consent to any economic activity affecting their ancestral lands, a view that conflicts…
American Cassandra
In many ways writer Chris Hedges up until now is the American Cassandra. In Greek mythology Apollo gave Cassandra the power…
Building a World Beyond the Beliefs that Divide – Gretta Vosper
The Reverend Gretta Vosper was in Victoria on January 25, 2017, to address an audience of more than two hundred gathered in the…
Jim Jamieson, Soldier for Peace, R.I.P
Dear family and friends of James Easton Jamieson: We are gathered here today, in this sacred place, as a sign of respect and…
BROWN, Allan G.
Born in Victoria, B.C., Allan passed away peacefully at home after a short struggle with cancer in Powell River, B.C. He was predeceased…