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  • Walk for Reconciliation

    How shall we demonstrate our solidarity with our First Nations brothers and sisters? This was the question that a small group of people from several Langley, BC area churches asked themselves over...
    July 12, 2024
  • Prayers for the Missing

    In my email to the editor of Do Justice, I asked, ‘How can I talk about how our bodies are disposed of in the dump or in the river and without being blunt, crude, disrespectful or violently graphic...
    July 8, 2024
  • Justice Prayers - July 3, 2024

    Oh, the overwhelming, never-ending, reckless love of God Oh, it chases me down, fights 'til I'm found, leaves the 99 - Reckless Love, Cory Asbury Unrest in Turkey In Turkey, tensions between Turkish...
    July 3, 2024
  • Justice Prayers - June 26, 2024

    Our true identity is flat and plain, not puffed up with the wrong kind of ingredient. The Messiah, our Passover Lamb, has already been sacrificed for the Passover meal, and we are the Unraised Bread...
    June 26, 2024
  • Pretendians: Indigenous Identity Fraud

    Indigenous identity fraud has become so common that there is a “Pretendian List” circulating on the internet that includes Canadians and Americans. The term “Pretendian” is used to call out a person...
    June 21, 2024
  • We Are HOME

    Recently I visited Joseph Bya and his wife Sana in their home in Cornwall, Ontario. Sitting in their bright, comfortable kitchen, we reminisced about the day, 8 years earlier, when we first met in...
    June 17, 2024
  • Engaging Across Experiences for a More Just Society

    I have had the privilege of participating in several conferences this spring, each of which touched on a different aspect of my work on poverty in Canada. They explored issues including housing...
    June 10, 2024
  • Intercultural Ministries Introduces the Collective

    Across Canada, there is a growing interest in becoming a healthy intercultural church as ethnic & racial diversity becomes a fundamental reality. According to Statistics Canada (2022), projections...
    June 7, 2024
  • Justice Prayers - June 5, 2024

    When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” “Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.” Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.” - John 21...
    June 5, 2024
  • Justice Prayers - May 22, 2024

    To the artist He is the one altogether lovely, and to the educator He is the master teacher. To the philosopher He is the wisdom of God, and to the lonely He is a brother; to the sorrowful, a...
    May 21, 2024