My scariest road trip was late in the afternoon of Easter Saturday in April, 1999. Roland Sewell and I had just been up to the Albanian border to bring relief to the flood of incoming Kosovar refugees. Roland remained there distributing bread, sausages and essentials, while I returned to Kukes in the truck, carrying a refugee […]
Social Justice
The Road to Hell?
Almost a month since my last post. Obviously, blogging every day, or even every week, wasn’t one of my resolutions at the New Year. Not that I would have kept it anyway, for I have been very busy with my work for The Salvation Army. Two weeks ago the island of Haiti suffered the latest […]
Just Thinking about a Just Society
Today, I heard from a group of panelists on the CBC that it was improper to apply tests based on a Western worldview to determine if foreign-born Canadians returning from visits abroad were, in fact, who they said they were. This is because a Somali lady (Suaad Hagi Mohamud) who had been visiting relatives in […]