Once it is gone, it is gone. If a child breaks a toy or if you inadvertently burn a letter to you from your grandmother, it is gone. It doesn’t come back. The world has a very special asset, located...

This week may you be filled with shalom as you reflect on the peace advent candle. “The Lord gives his people strength. The Lord blesses them with peace.” - Psalm 29:11 National Day of Remembrance and...

I tramped out into our backyard, wearing thick rubber boots, with my arms full of leftover food. As I dumped it into the fenced area, excited clucks greeted the rice, mashed potatoes and tomato bits...

It’s a difficult task to find meaningful, ethical gifts at the best of times, and now for most of us the pandemic realities of 2020 have added even more challenging hurdles to Christmas shopping. In...

This week we light the first candle of Advent, the hope candle. "I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with...

When she read a story on social media about headstones in a Jewish cemetery being vandalized in Michigan, my niece, Meghan Cohen, thought immediately of the cemetery in the Detroit area where her...

“I just think that truth and reconciliation is sequential, that you can’t have the reconciliation without the truth.” - Bryan Stevenson The times that we are living in are increasingly putting people...

Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. - Psalm 95:2 Uganda protests and violence – 45 killed Ugandan police have killed 45 civilians in clashes over the...

Creation care during COVID-19. What a weird time. On the one hand people are recognizing the importance of getting outside and enjoying creation. On the other hand the amount of personal protection...

When people hear about the work I do with survivors, they often want to share with me the latest story they have heard about trafficking. As they share details, it could be about a case or a news...

Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path. Psalm 119:105 Crisis in Ethiopia At least 27,000 people in Ethiopia have fled into neighbouring Sudan so far, as the UN has said a "full-scale...

I was recently invited as a guest speaker for a webinar with ecumenical partners, to share some information on global forced displacement and migration. This time rather than throwing out a lot of...