Let the King of my heart be the wind inside my sails and the anchor in the waves. - King of My Heart Earthquake’s Toll Rises Past 6,200 in Turkey and Syria Rescuers in Turkey and Syria were...
Among the passages of scripture that Christians are inspired by is the parable of the Widow and the Judge found in Luke 18:1-8. The passage informs the Christian call to social justice and the...
The Do Justice editor has invited me to contribute to “Do Justice” every three months, and this post marks the launch! This week I’m retiring from regular employment, and one of my post-employment...
While we live in a world subject to the evil one, we belong to God. Let us mourn, and let us dance. - Henri Nouwen Tyre Nichols’ violent death by police On January 7, 2023, five police officers from...
Jonathan Nicolai-deKoning (is the director of the Micah Centre at King’s University, which helps students explore ways of seeking justice in today's local and global contexts. He joins Chris to talk...
Lead Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Commissioner Murray Sinclair has the wonderful ability to speak important truths in great one liners. Two of those one-liners have stuck with me for the...
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...
He calls us all to step aboard his ship, Take the adventure on this morning's wing, Raise sail with him, launch out into the deep, Whatever storms or floods are threatening. If faith gives way to...
We’ve turned into a new calendar year, with all of its cultural energy around newness. And Christians carry on into the church year begun at Advent, and the newness brought into history in the...
The calendar has turned, and so it is time (in the words of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem ‘In Memorium CVI’) to “ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky// the flying cloud, the frosty light: the year is...
"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...
I, a minister in a post-Christian American city, found myself presenting on a zoom call with about a dozen community leaders. On screen with me were representatives from an agency that connects and...
