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  • Meeting the Neighbours

    We just moved – packed up all we own and migrated across the Rockies and across the Georgia Strait. We’re now in a town that shares borders with two reserves. I admit that I don’t know a great deal...
    December 16, 2013
  • Liturgy of Reconciliation

    Many people today, not just Christians, have a growing sense of God’s participation in their life. What is interesting is that for many, perhaps even most of the people who can do that, at the same time that our sense of God’s personal activity in our lives has grown, our sense of God’s activity in the world around us has diminished.
    November 25, 2013
  • Brutal and Beautiful Truth

    Our colleague Shannon Perez has a habit of asking zinger questions. As five of us colleagues sat in a Skype circle debriefing our experience of the Vancouver Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)...
    October 30, 2013
  • Acknowledging Traditional Lands

    Before presenting a conference paper, academics who study Aboriginal history have a tradition of acknowledging the First Nations upon whose traditional lands they are standing. This stems from historic traditions that began before Europeans showed up in Canada, when First Nations would request permission to pass through other peoples’ lands when travelling for any reason. This is a common human practice; across the globe civilizations used similar practices.
    August 30, 2013
  • Forming the Justice League

    It started with a question: "Can we do Show of Hands?" A little baffled by the question, I asked for more information. It was a justice initiative put on by the Office of Social Justice. I remembered...
    August 27, 2013
  • Something’s Happening

    At a recent Day of Encouragement focused on issues of Indigenous Justice and Reconciliation, held in Truro, NS, a pastor pulled us aside and said: “Something’s happening here. I’m not sure what it is, but God’s Spirit is at work.”
    March 2, 2013