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3 days ago | 
fltimes.com | Cameron Miller
Please forgive an autobiographical interruption. I was a preacher. You probably knew that, and you may also have guessed that social advocacy has been an important part of my life — since 1968. The two are inseparable. “Politics” is not the red and blue food fight practiced today and caricatured in the media. When reduced to a pure power struggle with one side winning and the other vanquished, the society becomes dysfunctional.
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1 week ago | 
fltimes.com | Cameron Miller
Remember the saying that we shouldn’t judge someone until we’ve walked a mile in their shoes? Well, it is a roomy enough idiom to hold more than just empathy. I recently caught a glimpse of Geneva through the eyes of my 6-year-old grandson. His shoes were too small for me to fit into, though. He loves to ride his bicycle and can ride it for miles, literally. The handlebars aren’t much higher than my knees and the tires not as high, yet he can pedal a blue streak on that wee bike.
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2 weeks ago | 
fltimes.com | Cameron Miller
I looked across the lake one morning, with the dead-calm water a glass tabletop framed by the limits of my peripheral vision. There was also a thin haze of Canadian wildfire smoke. If I didn’t look south down the lake’s sinewy 37 miles, but only across toward Rose Hill, my perception was tricked. Indeed, the lake appeared quite small, what they’d call a “pond” in Vermont.
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2 weeks ago | 
littler.com | Shana French |Cameron Miller
In today’s evolving economic landscape, many Canadian employers are facing the difficult decision to reduce their workforce. Whether driven by restructuring, cost-cutting or strategic realignment, a reduction in force (RIF) presents significant legal and operational challenges.
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3 weeks ago | 
fltimes.com | Cameron Miller
To be a steward is to practice good management and nurture what has been entrusted to our care. There is an old joke I used to tell in the churches I served, at the start of “stewardship” season. It’s memorable, so I could only tell it once and had to come up with something different the next year. The joke goes like this: Once upon a time there was a man with a three-legged pig. He loved that pig and was so proud of it.
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1 month ago | 
fltimes.com | Cameron Miller
One of my favorite books is a little nine-chapter story filled with poetic images and thundering sermonics. It comes from that transformative era of human development I was referencing a couple of weeks ago, known as the Axial Age. I confess it is a book of the Bible, but don’t stop reading just because you don’t have any use for that old thing. It comes from the same period as Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, Pythagoras, and Lao Tzu.
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1 month ago | 
fltimes.com | Cameron Miller
I am not sure what this is about, something you may feel each week as you begin reading this column. But here’s a hint: I was engulfed by the sensation of a thunderstorm as I wrote, not to mention dinosaur chickens, three-legged dogs, and a lion attack. Let’s break this down. Rabia and I headed for our morning walk even though the phone app said a storm was coming. After all, I can look up and judge the gathering of dark clouds, or feel positive ions coagulating before the cloudburst.
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1 month ago | 
fltimes.com | Cameron Miller
It is painfully difficult to think beyond ourselves, and beyond our own moment in time. I mean, truly, how often do you wonder about why you are thinking the way you are thinking, instead of simply thinking? For example, there was a brief period in human history in which a host of new ideas and ways of thinking exploded onto the scene — almost simultaneously, from China to India, Persia to Greece. It changed the way humans think, at least to that point.
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1 month ago | 
fltimes.com | Cameron Miller
The day began with Rabia nosing my hand. I was trying to stay asleep, even though the alarm had sung and gray light peeked through a crack beneath the shade. “All right, all right,” I assured her. By which I meant, “After I take care of myself, I’ll attend to you.”Brush teeth, splash face, throw on sweatpants and T-shirt. “Can’t leave the bedroom without making the bed, Rabia.” She was now lying in the hallway at the entrance to the bedroom with her head between her two front paws. Waiting.
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1 month ago | 
fltimes.com | Cameron Miller
In the musical “Camelot,” Sir Lancelot was grander, stronger, and purer than all the other knights of the Round Table. He knew it, and others were about to discover it. In his signature song, he rhapsodizes about his superior virtue, asking the rhetorical question: Where in the world could King Arthur find a knight with such absolute purity of heart, self-restraint, and discipline? He answers his own question in song:“C’est moi! C’est moi, I blush to disclose. “I’m far too noble to lie.
