An Eventful First Week of the Year
The first week of the new year has been an eventful one. As the coronavirus numbers continue to rise in Ontario, and throughout the world, our schools and most of our businesses stay closed.
South of the border, a chaotic week held the world's attention, highlighting once again the very real racial issues that are alive and well and living with us all in North America, if not the world. It would seem, that humanity is fractured beyond repair.
But for people of faith, this is not so. It is simply a time of breaking open and breaking apart so that we can see the great fissures that have always existed in economic disparities, racial, gender, and religious divides.
Perhaps this is a time of a great viewing, a time when at last we can see things the way they are. Perhaps, as Pierre Teilhard De Chardin hoped, "after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides, and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire." Let us hope and let us pray it may be so.
What Happened South of the Border This Week
If the U.S. Capitol attack surprised you, you weren’t paying attention
By Simran Jeet Singh | Jan 8, 2021
Shock over white nationalism shows a lack of recognition about the events of the past four years.
As chaos hit the U.S. Capitol, two forms of faith were on display
By Jack Jenkins | Jan 7, 2021
As chaos hit the U.S. Capitol, two forms of faith were on display.
We must take the white Christian nationalist symbols at the Capitol riot seriously
By Robert P. Jones | Jan 7, 2021
The attack exposed the comfortable juxtaposition of Christianity and white supremacy.
Call to Action
Michael Blair
By Christopher White | Jan 6, 2021
Michael Blair, the new UCC General Secretary says it's time to look at congregation cultures.
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