by joshualee1920 | Jun 17, 2023
Philosopher Charles Taylor believes it is important to grapple with the different ways in which religious or spiritual and unbelievers experience the world. In his book A Secular Age (2007), he traces the shift in Western society from a condition where belief...
by joshualee1920 | Apr 17, 2023
We live in a world of increasing diversity. Our Canadian work and community spaces reveal ethnic and cultural diversity. We increasingly respect and even celebrate that diversity in the public square. But what about the diversity of religious, spiritual, or...
by joshualee1920 | Aug 17, 2022
The other day, my 11 year-old son asked me to stop listening to the news because the stories about climate change make him feel anxious and scared. Although my partner and I do our best to be careful about the media we watch around him, clearly we weren’t being...
by joshualee1920 | Jun 17, 2022
The past Up till the sixties I grew up in a Dutch Reformed subculture and in a completely pillarized, that is segregated setting from the perspective of religion and worldview. During the last years of secondary school, sixteen to eighteen years old and in the midst...
by joshualee1920 | Apr 17, 2022
In February 2022, the trucker convoy, referred to as “Freedom Convoy” by organizers, grabbed the attention of the media in Canada and beyond. It was comprised of truckers and people from various groups who gathered in Ottawa to protest government mandates...