“They don’t understand what it’s like, they’ve never been there.” Last week I attended a small town’s community dinner to talk to the regulars there, and this is what one lady said in response to a...
God before and God behind, God for us and God for your own self, Maker of heaven and earth, creator of sea and sky, governor of day and night. Be our day and our night, our heaven and our earth, our...
Editor’s Note: Please be aware that this blog contains a reference to suicide. The agony of displacement due to insurgency and civil unrest in my home country has left many homeless, missing loved...
Centennial Christian School in Terrace recently participated in the KAIROS Blanket Exercise. The BC First Peoples Grade 11/12 class wrote letters to their friends afterwards reflecting on their...
"O Great Father of the sky above and the earth below, of the great waters and all that is in them," they prayed. "Hear our cry! - Acts 4:24 (FNV) Conditions Worsen in Gaza as Israeli Troops Advance...
I have struggled with recent vocational changes in an effort to feel comfortable with who I am and how I make my livelihood. And it is more complex and challenging than I have ever given much thought...
If there’s one thing Christians want to do, it is to help. We know we’re called to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and look after the sick (Matthew 25). We see people in our communities and around...
My we help the helpless, comfort the mourner, sympathize with the widow and fatherless, and may we always be ready to put up with wrong, to be long-suffering, to be very patient, full of forgiveness...
In this episode Andrew Reinstra joins us to talk about what it's like to reconcile his experiences his birth and adoptive families. We get into the questions *not* to ask an adopted person. If you've...
Editor's Note: The following post reflects on the concept of 'whiteness' - not a skin colour or race, but as an ideology that equates lighter skinned people with spiritual maturity and civilization...
Be our primary disease, and infect us with your justice; Be our night visitor, and haunt us with your peace; Be our moth that consumes, and eat away at our unfreedom. Until we are toward you and with...
Recently I settled my youngest son into a semester of study in New Mexico – near the Navajo Nation. It has been good to see him begin to be immersed once again into our culture, our foods, our...
