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  • Teach Us To Number Our Days

    I have long found Celtic Christianity and prayer to be a source of sustenance. Its tradition of integrating worship and work, prayer and practice, neighbour love and ordinary labour always meets me...
    May 22, 2020
  • Justice Prayers - May 20, 2020

    While the Do Justice Prayers usually address specific issues, and developments around the world, this week we would like to address prayers for those who work in these fields. For those doing the hard...
    May 20, 2020
  • #HearUsOut - Canada Edition

    Our Phone2Action partner launched #HearUsOut to help you send a personalized message to federal elected officials. It is now avaliable to Canadians. By selecting a topic within the action alert, you...
    May 19, 2020
  • Community and Connection

    Like many around the globe, my ministry, my family, and I have had to make changes to our way of life in light of COVID-19. This spring, Restorations had been looking forward to completing the...
    May 15, 2020
  • Interdependence and Hope: Be the Second Chicken

    It all started with a science experiment and a group of chicks. I grabbed one chick and eyeballed it like I was a hungry hawk. When placed back in its box the chick played possum for about a minute...
    May 11, 2020
  • Justice Prayers - May 6, 2020

    Prayers To The One Who Makes Peace Take out all our hearts of stone and replace them with hearts of living, beating flesh. Transform us into instruments of your peace. For the O ngoing Conflict in...
    May 6, 2020
  • A Prayer of Comfort During COVID-19

    I was recently invited to join an online prayer group of ministers and elders and was asked to offer a prayer of comfort during our time together in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course I...
    May 1, 2020
  • Authentic Lament, Authentic Hope

    This world is not perfect. It is not peace-full. It is not unbroken. It is not wholly good. This world witnesses hardship, oppression, death, injustice; and it walks on. Relentless. Unapologetic. It...
    April 20, 2020
  • Find the Beauty

    I never intended to work as a psychotherapist. When I first went off to ‘pursue’ a career I chose being a school teacher. I even taught Grade 6 for two years. Then as life would have it, I decided to...
    April 17, 2020
  • Glimpses of Dawn - Holy Week and COVID-19

    This is Holy Week, and today is called Maundy Thursday. The name is derived from mandatum, the Latin word from which we get our word ‘mandate’, or command – and commemorates Jesus' new command in John...
    April 9, 2020
  • Staying Hopeful in the Time of Climate Emergency

    I am a climate career professional - someone who works on climate advocacy and climate justice as a job, Monday through Friday, 9 to 5. It is my dream job. As part of my job, I work on mobilizing...
    April 6, 2020
  • Justice Prayers - Prayers for Home April 2, 2020

    Across the globe populations are being told to stay home, to isolate from their neighbors, to not travel or even go into work. Drastic measures taken to safeguard our neighbors by creating borders...
    April 1, 2020