by Jessica Banninga | Oct 11, 2022 | Opinion
Truth comes before reconciliation. These words have become ingrained in my mind after hosting and attending our Canadian Baptist families’ second National Day for Truth and Reconciliation online event. On Friday, Sept. 30, over 350 Baptists from the five time zones...
by Jodi Spargur | Dec 8, 2021 | Opinion
“Eat this book.” It felt like the prophet Ezekiel being commanded to eat the scroll given him by the angel of the Lord. The church in Canada had been asked to “formally adopt and comply with the principles, norms, and standards of the United Nations...
by Kathy Manis Findley | Jul 28, 2021 | Opinion
History will tell stories about how this society, in this time, failed to treat every person as a person of worth. History might also tell of the ways people of faith failed to treat persons as persons of sacred worth. It’s a matter of respecting all persons, caring...
by Starlette Thomas | Jul 6, 2021 | Opinion, The Raceless Gospel Initiative
A Mexican proverb states, “They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.” It reminded me of another that I learned from my mother. Speaking of an unsolved murder mystery, she told me, “The ground doesn’t talk.” But it does. Blood cries from the ground, from...
by Gillian Drader | Jun 9, 2021 | Opinion
I sit among the trees with my tears, my rage and my shame, feeling the pain of what has been done to the Indigenous people in my country. On May 28, 2021, the precious remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, were discovered on the grounds of what was...
