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  • Justice Prayers - April 3

    We bring our prayers to Creator God, who both "takes up our pain and bears our suffering" and will "let justice roll down like a river." Tension Heightened after Airstrikes between Palestine, Israel...
    April 3, 2019
  • An Election Budget, Wild Times, and a Call to Prayer

    Political pundits and partisans often use the annual budget announcement as an opportunity to evaluate a government – to sing its virtues or to decry its follies. Many civil society organizations...
    April 1, 2019
  • Join with the Malian Church in Prayers for Peace

    As the World Renew team leader for West Africa, I have spent many years getting to know local people in their communities. They have worked hard to improve the health and living situations of their...
    March 29, 2019
  • Justice Prayers - March 27

    We bring our prayers to Creator God, who both "takes up our pain and bears our suffering" and will "let justice roll down like a river." Cyclone Idai Kills Hundreds in Southern Africa More than 750...
    March 27, 2019
  • The Hardest Injustice to See

    The first few months of 2019 do not give much hope for reconciliation in Canada. In January, members of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation in BC were arrested for blocking the construction of a natural gas...
    March 22, 2019
  • Justice Prayers - March 20

    We bring our prayers to Creator God, who both "takes up our pain and bears our suffering" and will "let justice roll down like a river." Study Highlights Disparities in Consumption and Air Pollution A...
    March 20, 2019
  • What if? How then?

    Recently I found this picture in an article from National Geographic. What a beautiful sight. A sign of hope in a broken world. An oasis in the desert. I was even more delighted to find out that in...
    March 18, 2019
  • An Inheritance for my Grandchildren

    In honor of today's Global Climate Strike, we offer this post from long-time climate organizer, Rev. Rich Killmer of the CRC's Climate Witness Project. I am 76 years old. I often think about the kind...
    March 15, 2019
  • Justice Prayers - March 13

    We bring our prayers to Creator God, who both "takes up our pain and bears our suffering" and will "let justice roll down like a river." Economic and Political Turmoil in Venezuela Worsens Amid...
    March 13, 2019
  • Freedom for Victims and Buyers in the Sex Trade

    February 22 marked Ontario’s Human Trafficking Awareness Day. That same day, the news broke about Robert Kraft, owner of the NFL’s New England Patriots, being charged with solicitation of prostitution...
    March 11, 2019
  • An American Theology to Die For

    On August 16, 1967, Martin Luther King was interested in the soul of America. At the eleventh Southern Christian Leadership Conference convention in Atlanta, he observed the domestic terrorism in the...
    March 8, 2019