Vol. 23 Number 2

Celebrating over 22 years of publishing in Western Canada

Tragic stories like the Haitian earthquakes has the secular media reporting from the ridiculous to the sublime in order to get that perfect shot or that gut wrenching account. Stories like the doctor who used a bottle of vodka to sterilize a hack-saw needed to amputate a little girl’s leg are shocking descriptions that may be true but is this how the story should be told?

Recording artist Steve Bell has a different take on things. In his investigation of Haitian history he discovered that the indigenous people have suffered two thousand years of oppression, exploitation and despots to the point of extinction only to be replaced by African slaves that netted the Colonists insane wealth. This he didn’t know – but God did, and now he knows it as well. That makes him and us responsible.

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