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,...
by Cheryl Bear | Aug 9, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: The following column may contain material that could be disturbing to some readers. The focus of the first three years of Canadian Baptist Ministries’ (CBM) She Matters campaign highlighted global gender inequity for girls and women around the...
by Jonathan Langley | Aug 8, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: the following column may contain material that could be disturbing to some readers. “I’m not a fan of Gandhi,” an Indian academic visiting the United Kingdom from Bangalore told me recently. “And I think that the complicity between colonial...
by Terry Smith | Aug 8, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: the following column may contain material that could be disturbing to some readers. In his book, “Christ the Stranger: The Theology of Rowan Williams,” Benjamin Myers tells a fascinating story. A Scottish theologian, Elisabeth Templeton, asked a...
