United Church of Canada people might enjoy Kathleen Norris's perceptions of the U.S. election:

One of the world's most profound and best-selling authors on Christian spirituality and I were having a laugh this week at the expense of George W. Bush and Sarah Palin.

Award-winning Kathleen Norris, who divides her time between South Dakota and her home state of Hawaii, was in town to give a talk at the Vancouver Club about her compelling new book, Acedia and Me: A Marriage, Monks and a Writer's Life.