Month: September 2023

Colonization is a process that replaces indigenous peoples’ culture with those of the colonizer and puts in place institutions and mechanisms to perpetuate it. Colonization is not simply an act of taking over physical territory, it is also an act of taking over the mind. War Memorials, Sonneberg Germany It takes over the mind by…

It is often the purpose of monuments to celebrate successes, and in doing so, to bring together the community. The issue with some is they present a single, positive narrative, and leave unsaid any negative consequences for other members of the community. Such omissions are often hurtful to those who were on the receiving end…

What is an explanation for our different interpretations of events? Why were once acceptable things now unacceptable? A key change might be broadly encapsulated in the shift from “Universality” to the more “Contextual”; the shift from a focus on universal principles to a more context-sensitive approach in ethical theories. This can be seen as reflective…

How does our current notion of perfection apply to how we interpret history and its manifestations, such as monuments, place names, institutional processes, among others? In Western societies, historical measures applied to how events, people, were assessed included biblical criteria — moral integrity, fealty to God and generally bettering one’s character. Today’s society is more…

Over the past few posts I have referred to “perfection” or “sin”. What does perfection mean? Should we measure “perfection” in terms of the “absence of mistakes?” While some actions can certainly be characterized as “mistakes,” often the determination is more subjective, in part because the benchmarks are fluid and fuzzy. The Bible acknowledges the…