Welcome to our Advocacy Works series! Want to see other posts? Sign up here to receive them in your inbox. “Lack of medicine.” “Handwritten receipts.” “No psychologist or social worker.” Across...
Welcome to our Advocacy Works series! Want to see other posts? Sign up here to receive them in your inbox. Have you ever thought of advocacy as an act of worship or a step of discipleship? I hadn't...
God is not impressed. Why, you ask? Allow me paint an evocative picture. Sing song, sing-a-long. Hands raised to high heaven, Like the branches of red oaks Only inches shy of touching the big blue sky...
In the parable of the Good Samaritan in the Gospel of Luke, a lawyer put Jesus to the test by asking a bold question - “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?” The lawyer already knew the...
This year of 2017 is the year Canada celebrates 150 years as a confederation. As we do so, what is the story we will share? While four provinces (Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick) came...
We are a people who deeply believe in the importance of promises, and also, seem, ironically, to not be very good at keeping them. That’s one of the themes we can see running throughout the Bible: God...
Welcome to our Sacred Covenants series! You can find other posts in the series here. I remember the first time I saw a Two-Row Wampum Belt. I was walking through the Woodland Cultural Centre in...
While there were several members of the great cloud of witnesses who shepherded me into the worldview and polity of the Christian Reformed Church, one of the more memorable is my friend Pastor Ken...
I always find it amusing when white Christians debate—exclusively among themselves—the fate of civilization. The rest of us can only be outside observers, passengers in sweeping historical narratives...
This week marked one of the most important moments of my year. No, it wasn’t the first day of spring, though that was a highlight. It was the unveiling of Canada's federal budget for 2017. Perhaps...
It just so happens that as Congress considers dismantling Medicaid as we know it – as well as an end to the law that requires health insurers to cover people with pre-existing conditions – I am...
My Nigerian friend and colleague in the work of peace and justice, Bulus Ali, has been an icon of peace to me; a representation of and witness for what Peace is and Justice does. I’ve known and worked...
