Tag Archives: christianity

52 Titles: Jose Saramago’s “The Gospel According to Jesus Christ”

By caniceleung | Published: December 18, 2011
Jose Saramago is one of my favourite authors. I like that he isn’t afraid to spend 1,000 words cataloguing every step of a character’s thought process — especially when that person is Jesus Christ. Nuance isn’t always considered when people talk about the Bible and its tenets, so it’s nice to read something that contextualizes [...]
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Pride and (gay) prejudice

By caniceleung | Published: June 24, 2011
In honour of Pride Week in Toronto, here is a little story about my family and their views on gay rights. This post is also part of The Ethnic Aisle blog collective, a super-awesome new thing I am part of that comments on the experience of visible minority Canadians. I think every person can pinpoint a [...]
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Things I believed in when I was 12 — but no longer do

By caniceleung | Published: July 2, 2010
Writing a feminist column, I got the occasional irate reader. Most of them are nitpicky and miss the point, while others are straight up incomprehensible. Up until this point, my favourite one was a rambling, angsty Facebook message from a first-year male, white, university student from Calgary, who said there should be men’s studies if [...]
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