the eulogia files » Canada Day http://darrellbuchanan.ca Mon, 14 May 2012 20:04:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 A Canada Day Ex-Pat Perspective http://darrellbuchanan.ca/2009/07/01/a-canada-day-ex-pat-perspective/ http://darrellbuchanan.ca/2009/07/01/a-canada-day-ex-pat-perspective/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:20:00 +0000 Darrell Buchanan http://www.darrellbuchanan.ca/?p=218 Continue reading →]]> After the fireworks are over, point your web browser to James K.A. Smith’s Fors Clavigera blog for some reflections on Canada from an ex-pat.

Smith begins with a collection of testimonies from other Canadian ex-pats in a New York Times Op-Ed piece today. Then, the Associate Professor of Philosophy at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan offers his own from-a-distance perspective as Canadians celebrate 142 years of Confederation.

His words remind Canadians that it is not just their neighbours to the south who can succumb to the idolatry of national pride.

Link:
James K.A. Smith, O, Canada: A Collection of Hymns by Ex-Pats

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