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Resistance to Trump shows democracy not easily defeated
By Glen Argan After two rather ignominious defeats, the supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump may be inclined to argue that democracy is being thwarted. After all, Trump was elected in November promising to kill so-called Obamacare and to keep Muslims out of the country. However, the promise to kill Obamacare has itself been sent…
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Liberal ‘decency’ is thinly-veiled imperialism
(From The Catholic Register, Toronto) By Glen Argan At the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church wiped its hands of its “long century” of defensive reaction to the modern world and climbed into what it hoped would be a new era of dialogue. However, it takes (at least) two to dialogue and over the last…
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Trying to dance down at the passport office
By Glen Argan A year and a half ago during our happy trek across northern Spain known as the Camino de Santiago, we encountered a few heavy rainfalls. The worst was the last day’s walk into Santiago de Compostella when we got thoroughly drenched. During all this, I took care to keep my passport in…
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Man born blind finds fullness of life in Jesus
Gospel for Fourth Sunday in Lent Sunday, March 26, 2017 By Glen Argan The man born blind is each of us. Watch how this nameless man grows in maturity, indeed Christian maturity, throughout the healing story in John 9 (1-41). The man was born blind, Jesus says, “so that God’s works might be revealed in…
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Reformed theologian delivers Anthony Jordan Lectures
Boersma speaks on nature, real presence By Glen Argan Special to the Prairie Messenger EDMONTON — A deeper understanding of the intertwining of nature and the supernatural can provide insights that will bring Catholics and Protestants closer together, says a Christian Reformed theologian from Vancouver. “Nature is never strictly or purely natural,” said Dr. Hans…
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Lenten perspective to the pipeline debate
(First published in The Catholic Register, Toronto, Ont., http://www.catholicregister.org) By Glen Argan The Alberta government and pipeline construction are again in the news. In its March 2 speech from the throne, the NDP government said it would oppose legal cases threatening the recently approved Trans-Mountain Pipeline which will move oil from Alberta to the West…
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Transfiguration: God’s glory revealed in self-giving love
Gospel for March 12, 2017 Second Sunday of Lent By Glen Argan The Transfiguration (Matthew 17.1-9) is one of the great stories of the New Testament. Typically, it is interpreted as a story which reveals that Christ’s glory and his passion are one. That is true, but I think that taken alone such an interpretation…
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Repentance begins with admission of guilt
First Sunday in Lent Sunday, March 5, 2017 By Glen Argan Sin is a room with no exit, not even a window that lets in a glimmer of light. When we face our sin square in the eye, we realize we have let it define us. That sin of adultery, that refusal to help the…
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There’s a thin line between fight and flight
By Glen Argan The Catholic Register (Issue of Feb. 26, 2017) (www.catholicregister.org) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s first meeting with the new president of the United States has come and gone. Uneventfully. That the meeting be uneventful was the dream of the majority of Canada’s newspaper columnists, to say nothing of the government itself. Don’t kick…
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Even hunter-gatherers were not radical enough for Jesus
Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Gospel for February 26, 2017 By Glen Argan If there is one reading in the Bible that shoots an arrow through the heart of our accumulative, frenzied, technological, top-down society, it is Sunday’s Gospel (Matthew 6.24-34). I have to admit that every time I read or hear this reading about…
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