It began in images and it ended in symbolism.

Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.

Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.

We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.

Enlightenment should be a human right.

Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.

If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.