Wednesday, 6th December 2017

Remembering the Montreal Massacre

from Dec. 6, 2017

http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/rabblecas-staff-blog/2017/12/twenty-eight-years-later-december-6-1989

28 years ago, I was teaching at Trent University and finishing my Ph.D. In the years before the internet, when you couldn’t just turn on your iPad and get… Continue reading…

Friday, 6th October 2017

Las Vegas, Mass Murder, and Explanations

From Oct. 6, 2017

The terrorist that perpetrated the killings last weekend in Las Vegas seems to me to represent a kind of turning point in the American experience of mass murder. To this point,… Continue reading…

Thursday, 14th September 2017

Hurricane Irma update 2

From Sept. 14, 2017

More thoughts that come out of Hurricane Irma.

I’ve long identified myself, theologically, as closer to the Anabaptist/Mennonite tradition than anything else. And what most people associate with that tradition is… Continue reading…

Thursday, 14th September 2017

Hurricane Irma update 1

from Sept. 14, 2017

Ongoing Hurricane Irma update (I know, everyone has moved on to the next thing, but in Florida and Texas and India and Bangladesh and other places it continues after the news… Continue reading…

Sunday, 10th September 2017

Hurricanes and Rhetoric

from Sept. 10, 2017

https://www.academia.edu/210695/Places_That_Disasters_Leave_Behind

As it happens, I’ve written about hurricanes before. I focused on how places get made, or don’t, in the wake of a disaster. The one in question for this… Continue reading…