ABSTRACT
The task of public theologies is precisely strategic, by providing a space for the people who are integrities in dissent at the margins to engage in a network of thinking and sharing experiences. Feminist activism has enlarged the rights and freedom of women in the public arena while focus on the private sphere brought a new range of issues. Publics in Canada are critically framed as heterogeneous, multicultural and overlapping. They are also malformed by the unchecked social power of those who control political economic life which has all but absorbed the fragile institutions created to sustain civil society. Learning to live with moral ambiguity will continue to be part of the challenge. Ambiguity does not mean, however, that people think less clearly or stop dreaming or drumming, or struggling to be effective intercultural moral agents who stick heterogeneously together with 'passion for the possible'.
