Humanist Perspectives: issue 199, Winter 2016-2017
Issue 199, Winter 2016-2017
Humanist Perspectives is a refreshing, rational analysis of modern events and culture and is available at select magazine stores or by online subscription.
Editorial
- Next time it won't be a guy with a funny moustache screaming in German
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The hazard of being born and raised in a free country is that it is all too easy to forget that there is nothing inevitable about the progress of civil liberties. The clock can be -- and has been -- turned back in certain parts of the world. Is Canada inherently immune?
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Features
- The Quiet Tragedy of Orillia
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Thelma Wheatley discusses Ontario's almost forgotten Asylum for Idiots and Feeble-Minded, founded in 1876.
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- Interview with Terry George, Director of The Promise
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Dr. Christopher DiCarlo chats with Terry George at TIFF about his film set during the decline of the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian genocide.
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- Libya's bloody bedlam enabled by Canadian "humanitarians"
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Murray Dobbin describes how Canada dropped the "responsibility to protect" ball in Libya.
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- Is the Muslim Brotherhood active in Canada?
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Robert Barrigar takes a closer look at some Islamic organizations operating in Canada. He also spells out what Halal certification actually means.
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- In Search of a Secular Hospice
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"What is the role of religion in a hospice setting? I had been troubled searching for the answer to my question from the very first day of my involvement in hospice".
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- A Magical Place
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Author John K. Nixon poetically describes a part of the British Columbia coastline that has a special meaning for him.
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- The Missing Ritual
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Barry Mayhew describes various Western rituals such as those which surround birth, graduation, marriage and death. He then suggests one other.
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Book reviews
- Review of Daniel Dennett and Linda LaScola’s “Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind”
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Religious leaders of every denomination—be they priests, pastors, ministers, rabbis or imams—are expected to hear the doubts of their congregants and to offer reassurance to the troubled as part of their role. But what happens when the clergy themselves have doubts...
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- In addition, Humanist Perspectives offers a lively Letters-to-the-Editor section as well as Book Reviews, books available for review and snippets of international news of interest to humanists.