Our loyalties must include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth

Parabola Magazines Facebook status update today:Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations.We have broadened the circle of those we love. We…

Please join us in protesting the BC government’s proposed cuts to newborn health visits.

“All mothers and newborns should receive a visit from a public health nurse, if they want or need one.” These visits are a godsend to new moms when they are at their most vulnerable. They help detect post-partum depression, jaundice, breast feeding issues and much more. These problems …cut across socio-economic lines. Funding for this…