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  • Progress Is Progress

    “Who despises the day of small things” (Zechariah 4:10) Last December 2022, my wife Sharon and I attended dinner at her parents for our birthdays. This had been a tradition for years. We arrived...
    March 10, 2023
  • Suspended Vengeance

    Dylan Roof wanted to start a war. On June 17, 2015, Roof felt his white race was losing the battle in maintaining white Southerner’s way of life where black people knew their place. He had to find a...
    January 27, 2023
  • Justice Prayers - January 18, 2023

    "Now, for good friends to cheer us, for seasonal weather to envelop us, for good work to engage us, we give You thanks." - An Evening Prayer Neal Plantinga Cholera outbreak in Malawi In this last year...
    January 18, 2023
  • What does reconciliation mean?

    For me, it begins by accepting the gospel and reconciling with God through Jesus. It is repenting my sins and daily following Jesus by living according to his teachings. Reconciliation also means...
    January 2, 2023
  • Rwanda: How I Changed My Mind about Race Relations

    When I arrived in Kigali, Rwanda in October 2022, it was in the dark of night after a seventeen hour flight from Grand Rapids with stops in Detroit and Amsterdam. Takia, a small framed young Tutsi...
    November 4, 2022
  • 5 Words

    If you had to pick 5 words that expressed who you are- your identity- what would they be? You may choose words like “woman”, “teacher” or “introvert” but what else? What about the honest, raw words...
    October 3, 2022
  • Bless God, Bless Others - Cruciform Worship

    We welcome Dr. Kenny Wallace to the show. Kenny is an African American Choctaw Pawnee from the United States living in Canada. He teaches nationally and internationally about multi-ethnic worship with...
    August 3, 2022
  • A Newcomers Perspective on Community

    My name is Bryan Mwaka and I work on the Community Engagement Team in Edmonton. My story in Canada starts on January 24th, 2020, the day I arrived at Pearson International Airport in Toronto. It was...
    July 1, 2022
  • Forgiveness

    I once walked out of my church right in the middle of the service. I was with my daughter and I can tell she was embarrassed but followed me out anyways. If you know me, I don’t like to interrupt or...
    June 17, 2022
  • The Power of Story in Anti-racism Work

    So much of what I’ve been learning in my work is not new, but nevertheless illuminating. There is an incredible amount of power that someone’s story holds. There’s power in sharing our own story, but...
    June 10, 2022
  • Bring Us Together

    Christians live in "already but not yet" time. The kingdom of God is already here through Jesus’ life, teaching, death, and resurrection. It is present today in this world and it is spreading like...
    June 3, 2022