This article originally appeared in Comment magazine, the opinion journal of CARDUS: www.cardus.ca/comment

“Originally and properly within I am still alone by myself: in my freedom in relation to the whole cosmos; with my poetry and truth; with the question of my needs and desires and

In a Systematic Theology class, I was struck by something the theologian Leonardo Boff wrote in relation to past practices of Christian missions. I paraphrase: when missionaries entered into an indigenous culture to proselytize, more often than not they would try and supplant all forms