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  • How To Talk with Your Kids About Charleston

    It can be hard to know what kids are ready to hear about racism and violence. When? How? How much? These are hard conversations, but necessary ones to build a society where everyone is truly safe and...
    June 24, 2015
  • This is What It's Like

    There are already many things you should go read about McKinney. Before this becomes about you and your actions and your reactions and your thoughts and your assessment and your judgements, I need you to know two things.
    June 12, 2015
  • #LivetheApology

    Today is the 7th anniversary of the Government of Canada’s Residential Schools Apology. If we truly believe that the Gospel is good news for this time and this place, we must respond.
    June 11, 2015
  • Residential Schools are our Story

    This history is our history. It shapes who we were, who we are, and who we will become. Let us take this opportunity to shape our future for the good.
    June 5, 2015
  • Milestones- My Creator's Sacrifice

    As I have had the privilege of working in First Nations communities and developing relationships with my Indigenous friends and neighbours, I have been able to learn much about the world through the teachings of the Medicine Wheel.
    May 25, 2015
  • Milestones- Rezoning our Comfort Zones

    Editor's note: This post is the second in a series from the Milestones project. People who have been participated in or been affected by the CRC's work for reconciliation during the past six years, as...
    May 18, 2015
  • A Mother's Perspective on Residential Schools

    Here is my experience of first day of kindergarten with my son Antonio. We are very close to each other. I wondered how the first day of school would be for him and how I would be. Well, this is how...
    May 1, 2015
  • Reconciling with the Church through Worship

    Like many, I am a Christian both in spite of the church and because of the church. I would like to suggest that there are eight ways that congregations can cultivate worship practices that embrace those who bear scars inflicted by Christians.
    April 10, 2015
  • Selma: MLK and Us

    We still live in racism’s grip. Justice is not inevitable, but something God calls us to work for.
    January 19, 2015
  • Justice Books to Read in 2015

    Do you have plans for how to stay alert to injustice in 2015? Or are you in danger of becoming apathetic? A few years ago, a Fulani village in Mali was ignored in a proposal for a region-wide...
    January 5, 2015
  • To the 7th Generation...

    Children are the centre of our communities; it is of utmost importance that we create a better world for them to live. We must build and yes, sometimes fight, for their opportunity to thrive rather than be the statistics that show otherwise. We have to create opportunity in which equality is no longer questioned.
    December 5, 2014
  • Ferguson: A New Low?

    Let me begin by stating the obvious, Ferguson is about more than Michael Brown, the unarmed, eighteen year old African American who was slain in the street by Darren Wilson, a white police officer. It...
    November 29, 2014