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  • Bear Your Own Cross: Selfless Self Care

    My friend Bush is a kind man with intense focus, only broken by the odd joke and corresponding side laugh. He is Indigenous, a survivor of residential schools, and has a history of homelessness. I...
    February 17, 2020
  • Justice Prayers - February 12, 2020

    Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. - 1 John 4:7 Crisis Mounts Again in Syria On Thursday, the UN reported that more...
    February 12, 2020
  • Your Tuvaluan Neighbour

    “17.2 million people leaving their homes because of climate disasters is not a change.” This was a sign I saw as I first stepped off the metro in Madrid, Spain in early December. I had just arrived...
    January 31, 2020
  • Justice Prayers - January 22, 2020

    To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark, that is faith. - C.H. Spurgon Coastal GasLink and the Wet’suwet’en People One year ago there were dramatic images of conflict in the...
    January 22, 2020
  • Integration Fatigue

    I visited a young and energetic African American church located in south suburban Chicago last year. The church was once a failing white Reformed church who decided to take a gamble to reach a growing...
    January 6, 2020
  • Looking Back on 2019

    As reformed believers the staff at the Office of Social Justice and Centre for Public Dialogue understand that we live and work to the glory of God. This past year has continued to demand much of our...
    December 30, 2019
  • Spark!

    In November we held a conference here in Truro, Nova Scotia called “Spark!”. It was a new take on an old conference – we’ve held a Day of Encouragement event here every two years for a long time...
    December 16, 2019
  • Justice Prayers - December 11th

    Advent is a journey towards Bethlehem. May we let ourselves be drawn by the light of God made man. - Pope Francis Fire Kills Workers in India A fire broke out at a factory in India's capital New Delhi...
    December 11, 2019
  • Two Marches

    Over the years, I have marched in the Denver, Colorado Four Directions All Nation March where the marchers step off from four directions and rally at the Colorado State Capitol. One might ask why do...
    December 6, 2019
  • Justice Needs Less Superheroes and More Cry Babies

    This story contains mature content. I listen to one of my friends give her testimony to a group of teenagers. Her story is one of living on the Edmonton streets as one continually traumatized and...
    November 29, 2019
  • Justice Prayers - November 6th

    The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God's realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too...
    November 6, 2019
  • Climbing the Mountain of Reconciliation

    I recently went on a trip to the Yukon, I’m not a big hiker so when my friend led me along the side of a steep slope on a mountain sheep trail I was well out of my comfort zone. But I was also...
    October 25, 2019