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  • Justice Prayers - April 16, 2025

    We are people on a journey Following where the Master walks We are people on a journey In the shadow of the cross What compels the face of Jesus Who protects our faithful guide He who treads the road...
    April 16, 2025
  • Welcome in Word or Deed?

    A major storm was brewing on that early spring day as we drove across the prairies, hoping to make it home from a short family getaway before the billowing snow hit. But we all needed a break, and our...
    April 14, 2025
  • It’s just water.

    It’s just water. It seems like a simple story: when clean water is accessible in a community, it contributes to health and wellbeing. Without it, survival is impossible. And while that’s true, the...
    April 11, 2025
  • Justice Prayers - April 9, 2025

    When they brought the colt to Jesus and threw their cloaks over it, he sat on it. Many people spread their cloaks on the road, while others spread branches they had cut in the fields. Those who went...
    April 9, 2025
  • Working on Reconciliation at Meadowlands CRC

    In 2020 Meadowland Fellowship CRC, located in Ancaster, Ontario, started the Hearts Exchanged journey. Our journey has been enlightening as it helps us advocate for justice in places where justice has...
    April 7, 2025
  • Civic Engagement

    In the midst of such turbulent times, we may wonder what’s true, what we can do and how we should live. There are temptations to retreat from all that’s happening or to watch wide-eyed and paralyzed...
    April 4, 2025
  • Justice Prayers - April 2, 2025

    “To be an incarnational follower of Christ, there must be a relinquishing of control, a reversal of social order. According to the natural perceptions of this world, it’s an upside-down kingdom. But...
    April 2, 2025
  • Dignity: where did it go?

    Bob Dylan wrote a song called “Dignity” on his album Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, Volume 3 in 1994. This song chronicles the author in his search for dignity, asking various characters if they have seen...
    March 31, 2025
  • Ordinary but Not Ordinary

    At a recent worship service in my home congregation, we moved through the ordinary rhythms of common worship: singing songs of praise and gratitude for God’s work among and for us, confessing our...
    March 28, 2025
  • Justice Prayers - March 26, 2025

    In my trials, Lord, walk with me. In my trials, Lord, walk with me. When my heart is almost breaking, Lord, I want Jesus to walk with me. I Want Jesus to Walk With Me (An African American Spiritual)...
    March 26, 2025
  • A Prayer for the Hungry

    Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for people to humble themselves? Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed and for lying in sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a...
    March 24, 2025
  • The Hope of the Church for Refugees

    Imagine your plane ticket has been booked. After fleeing persecution in your home country and then years of waiting in a refugee camp, you finally have the chance to fly to a new beginning. You arrive...
    March 21, 2025