This summer and fall, I am knocking on doors for a political candidate for the first time in my life. A friend whom I deeply respect is running to serve as a city councillor in one of the wards in...
Keep my anger from becoming meanness. Keep my sorrow from collapsing into self-pity. Keep my heart soft enough to keep breaking. Keep my anger turned towards justice, not cruelty. Remind me that all...
It is the church season of Ordinary Time, and so I offer a prayer for justice-seekers in Ordinary Time, so that we can be changed by this most commonplace and everyday moment in the church calendar...
I was 12 when my brother was deported. I remember coming home from school that day, not fully understanding what was happening, only feeling the urgency in the room and the tension in my parents'...
Blessed are those who act justly, who always do what is right. - Psalm 106:3 The Flames of Inequality Environmental racism describes the ways environmental harms are not experienced equally...
It’s easy to believe that justice work has to be big to matter. We see the headlines, the movements, the people leading large-scale change, and it can quietly shape what we think counts as meaningful...
When wildfire smoke fills the sky and evacuation orders come, families in northern, remote, and First Nations communities have to leave quickly, often with only what they can carry. Here in Niagara...
Blessed be Your name On the road marked with suffering Though there's pain in the offering Blessed be Your name Every blessing You pour out I'll turn back to praise When the darkness closes in, Lord...
I first went to a NAIITS symposium in 2017. The theme was on the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It was amazing to be around strong, positive-identifying Indigenous...
Adrian Jacobs, Senior Leader for Indigenous Justice and Reconciliation, once preached at Meadowlands Church on Revelation 21 in which the glory or doxa of the nations will be brought into the new...
And will not God bring about justice for his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he keep putting them off? I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the...
When Sandra Pronteau sits down to bead, she creates a space that is entirely her own. She sets up in a quiet room with her dog, turning on the sounds of drumming and pow-wow singing in the background...
