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  • Treatyless on Wet’suwet’en Yintah

    If faith doesn't matter in all things then faith doesn't really matter. For our valley, unresolved land title has created a crisis. I know it's complicated, with so many stakeholders and participants...
    February 28, 2020
  • Advocacy Works!

    For the past four months, the Office of Social Justice has published a blog entitled, “ The Chipping Away of U.S. Legal Immigration,” an exhaustive list of policy changes and events that happened each...
    February 24, 2020
  • Human Trafficking Awareness Day

    On February 22, 2018, Ontario’s Provincial Anti-Human Trafficking Coordination Office launched its first Human Trafficking Awareness Day. And this year – in 2020 – there is advocacy to recognize this...
    February 21, 2020
  • Justice Prayers - February 19, 2020

    To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. - Martin Luther Church Attack in Burkina Faso At least 24 people were killed after unidentified gunmen attacked...
    February 19, 2020
  • Bear Your Own Cross: Selfless Self Care

    My friend Bush is a kind man with intense focus, only broken by the odd joke and corresponding side laugh. He is Indigenous, a survivor of residential schools, and has a history of homelessness. I...
    February 17, 2020
  • PFAS is a Hazardous Substance

    There is a relatively new threat to the health of Americans and Canadians. The flourishing future for all people, which our religious tradition envisions, is threatened by PFAS chemicals, which...
    February 14, 2020
  • Justice Prayers - February 12, 2020

    Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. - 1 John 4:7 Crisis Mounts Again in Syria On Thursday, the UN reported that more...
    February 12, 2020
  • Never Again in an Era of Mixed Migration

    Never again. These are words that I have heard echoed many, many times in my life in reference specifically to the Holocaust and the driving force behind the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1967...
    February 10, 2020
  • Elusive Peace: Middle East Plan Announcement

    "They have treated the wound of my people carelessly, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace." Jeremiah 6:14 Last week, many people around the United States completely missed the little blurb...
    February 7, 2020
  • Justice Prayers - February 5 2020

    "Don't be discouraged today. You can leave your 'what-ifs' and 'if-onlys' in the hands of the One who loves you and rules all things." - Paul Tripp Fallout from Trump Administration Middle East Plan...
    February 5, 2020
  • Your Tuvaluan Neighbour

    “17.2 million people leaving their homes because of climate disasters is not a change.” This was a sign I saw as I first stepped off the metro in Madrid, Spain in early December. I had just arrived...
    January 31, 2020
  • Justice Prayers - January 29th 2020

    Our times are in your hands. We come to you now in our strength and in our weakness, in our hope and in our despair, in our buoyancy and in our disease. We come to pray for ouselves and for all like...
    January 29, 2020