Ali Symons
Be still my soul, when reading online
Modern spirituality involves a lot of screen-staring.
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That precious fuel of connectedness
“Never tire of doing what is right,” urges Paul in 2 Thessalonians, but how can we not tire of battling the enormous, amorphous, problem of global poverty?
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The Millennium Development Goals: A Backgrounder
At the United Nations Millennium Summit in 2000, all 189 member states committed themselves to improving the lives of the world’s most impoverished people before 2015. It was a compact between rich and poor countries: wealthy countries, including Canada, promised to deliver more, and more effective, aid, faster and deeper debt relief, and fairer trade rules.
read moreWhat is a “living apology”?
Fifteen years ago, Archbishop Michael Peers stood in a Minaki, Ont. lodge and, as Primate, apologized to Aboriginal Anglicans for the church’s involvement in residential schools. He was at the National Native Convocation, and for almost a week he had listened while former residential school students told their stories: of lost homes, foreign education, abuse, [...]
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