Setting Sail: Conversations before General Synod
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Winter 2000
Called to be partners
I often use the images of icebergs, landmines and pyramids, when reflecting on cross-cultural communications, especially in light of the legacy of residential school abuse.
read more‘My hope is that we will journey together’
When I was about 10, I too was sent away to school in Kenora, Ont., where I attended the Celia Jeffrey Residential School. I remember vividly looking back toward home mile after mile, not knowing where I was going.
Of my time at Celia Jeffrey School I clearly remember many nights I went to bed crying [...]
Gladys Cook: ‘I am the church’
Gladys Cook of Portage La Prairie, elder of the Dakota Sioux people, holder of the Manitoba Premier’s Award and of a Canada 125 medal, member of the Anglican Council of Indigenous Peoples, remembers as a young woman being called a peacemaker, even though she felt herself filled with hate and anger. “It shows how much [...]
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