Ali Symons on January 29, 2010
What if your body can’t tolerate the elements?
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Posted in Winter 2010
Ali Symons on September 22, 2009
Modern spirituality involves a lot of screen-staring.
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Posted in Fall 2009
Ali Symons on October 1, 2008
“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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Posted in Fall 2008
Ali Symons on October 1, 2008
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.
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Posted in Fall 2008 | Tagged millenium development goals
Ali Symons on October 1, 2008
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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Posted in Fall 2008