Dumpster Theology FIJ
Dumpster Theology I’m at my computer at the church, munching on cheddar “Rice Thins” (0 trans-fat), listening to a Christian band called Delirious sing “we believe God is bigger than the air I breathe, the world we’ll leave. God will save the day, and all will say, ‘My glorious!, my glorious!” Outside the window the young spruce tree is making it hard to glimpse Hawk Mountain, while the dull green garbage bin across the street is hard to miss. A familiar Jasper sight, the dumpster’s most eye-catching element is the Park’s bear sign. You know the one: black cub, green veg background, encircled red. Chad - a local, - told me of the many bears of his childhood before Jasper traded its individual aluminum trash cans for its bear-proof collectives. “Keep Jasper’s bears wild.” “A fed bear is a dead bear.” “Get your own garbage!” You’ve seen the slogans. Safer streets, safer bears, safer trash. I picked up a climbing rope off this dumpster not too long ...