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 Mitch Randall | Jul 8, 2021 | Opinion
The treatment surrounding First Nations and Native Americans over the last 200 years has attracted renewed interest. Canada has located nearly 1,000 unmarked Indigenous graves near residential schools, and the Biden administration has announced an investigation into...
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...
by Nicolette Beharie | Aug 23, 2019 | News
When historic Cornwallis Street Baptist Church in Halifax, Nova Scotia, decided to change its name last year, it didn’t go unnoticed. Now called New Horizons Baptist Church, images of the iconic clapboard building with arched windows flashed across television screens,...
