When my older daughter was fourteen, her closest high school friends were a Jewish girl and a Muslim girl. They traded holidays the way most teens trade memes: with joy and curiosity. Our family...
At the northeastern edge of Alaska lies a stretch of tundra that has been called many names: the Coastal Plain, the 1002 Area, the crown jewel of the refuge system. But to the Gwich’in people, whose...
We are called to seek justice, love mercy and walk humbly before our God. Some days, this is very difficult and other days it comes very easily. I spent the past two days serving frontline urban...
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, located on the fringes of northern Alaska, is so remote that very few nonindigenous people will ever step foot on the land. This pristine land is home to the Gwich...
“Faith is a footbridge that you don't know will hold you up over the chasm until you're forced to walk out onto it.” ― Nicholas Wolterstorff, Lament for a Son Canada A new Thomson Reuters study...
My education in the day schools at Six Nations was standard Western education with either/or ways of thinking. I excelled in this education. My sister even called me, “Mr. Science.” She said this...
He has shown you, O people, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8 Sudan's Silent War As we pray for raging wars...
In this episode we speak with Bert Adema, Executive Director of Indigenous Christian Fellowship in Regina, Saskatchewan. Bert shares about 32 years of ministry, fostering a vibrant community by...
Last weekend, I had the privilege of participating in an interfaith event organized by KAIROS Canada, the G7 People’s Forum here in Calgary—a gathering of voices from around the world who are...
Stalwart walks in step with God; his path blazed by God, he’s happy. If he stumbles, he’s not down for long; God has a grip on his hand. - Psalm 27:23-24 (MSG) Civil War in Sudan More than two years...
My journey began in the Fall of 2023. My husband and I own a vacant 4.8 acre lot between our house and our daughter’s house. We had made the decision to not sell it as long as we didn’t need the money...
About an hour outside of present-day Phoenix is a site sacred to the San Carlos Apache Tribe: Chi’chil Biłdagoteel—Oak Flat. This small stretch of forest in the Tonto National Forest is home to oaks...