Writing
Essays on payments, inclusion and heritage.
New essays arrive here first. Earlier writing, from 2013 to 2017, is kept in the archive below.
Archive
Life, culture and spirituality, 2013–2017
- 27 September 2017 · CultureThe “First Black” SyndromeWhy celebrating the “first black” to reach a milestone concedes the measure to someone else, and why Africa enriches the world only by improving its own ways rather than imitating others.
- 7 September 2013 · SocietyDeath and the SocietyThe death of Brian Sinclair, left unattended for 34 hours in a Winnipeg emergency room, and what a system that fails its most vulnerable says about the society around it.
- 10 August 2013 · SocietyThe Gay Conversion TherapyThe closure of the Exodus International ministry prompts a series of open questions on prejudice, nature and the soul.
- 5 July 2013 · SpiritualityWhy Did the Psychic Get It Wrong?A psychic told a grieving mother her missing daughter was dead; the daughter was found alive ten years later. On the limits of a gift, and the humility to admit them.
- 4 May 2013 · LifeStuck in the Same BoatA short essay on life and the expression “stuck together in the same boat”.
- 31 March 2013 · LifeThe Dumb CriminalA short essay on life that opens with a local police spokesman’s television interview about a case.
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