At a time when everything we love seems to be at risk, Joanna Macy offers a kind of road map for this unique moment in human history when we must come alive to our truest power, to "look straight into the face of our time," and to participate in the Great Turning. What is the Great Turning? It is, as Joanna describes it, the shift from the industrial growth society to a life-sustaining one.
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Read MoreAn awakening is holy geography. Awakenings imply new awareness, inner transformation, a change in heart and mind, and a reordering of priorities, commitments and behaviours. . . .Awakenings take work, as human beings respond to the promptings of God’s Spirit in the world.
Read MoreMary Oliver was a woman of such deep faith in the goodness of things. A Pulitzer prize winner at a young age, Mary spent her life asking the deeper questions of life, searching out the answers through her affinity with the natural world, a place she had retreated to during a difficult childhood. She saw the fingerprint of the divine in every detail of nature. .
Read MoreGod, as divine, is not a creature, not a created thing. God is not bound by time, not confined by space. God is not part of the continuum of human history as we are. We are not God, but we are of, and in God, enveloped by God, infused with God, our lives embraced, warmed by God.
Africa Rise is a signature Mzansi Youth Choir song and was composed for the 2015/2016 AVBOB media campaign. The Zulu lyrics translate to: “Let us show respect, tolerance, compassion and above all love for our fellow brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers of Africa. We are Africa and we are one family.”
Read MoreKenosis, imagined as holy intimacy, is the fruitful medium in which this rebirth may begin. In response to the gracious invitation of God it provides a hospitable space in order that our truest life may unfold, the life imagined, engineered, and created by divine will, an adventure we are urged to embrace.
Read MoreTrue hope does not move forward in time. Authentic hope stands outside of time, moving between the two parallels of eternity and history. This is brought about only in one way and that is through the compassionate movement of ourselves towards other – Other being God, and other being one another. Paradoxically, as we move towards the other, there is an embracing of our own humanity and a binding to the larger cosmos of which Other/God simply is.
Read MoreThe reformation marked a shift in authority from church leadership to the Bible. Here, Phyllis Tickle and Brian McLauren speak about the new shift in authority in which we currently find ourselves. Phyllis Tickle, who died in 2015, and Brian McLauren, currently still teaching, are considered leading international religious teachers, particularly regarding the emerging church.
Read MoreA hymn composed by Katherine Davis. Sung in the video by Lebanon County Youth Chorus, from their album 'Somewhere in the Skies.'
Read MoreAngie Thurston is creating spiritual formation experiences for the 21st century. She is dedicated to connecting the inner life of spirit to the outer life of action for social change. Convinced that we need each other to become who we’re meant to be, Angie supports an emerging field of leaders who are deepening community and combating our modern-day crisis of isolation.
Read MoreAmerica - the world - is changing. Millennials are less religiously affiliated than ever before. Churches are just one of many institutional casualties of the internet age in which young people are both more globally connected and more locally isolated than ever before. Against this bleak backdrop, a hopeful landscape is emerging. Millennials are flocking to a host of new organizations that deepen community in ways that are powerful, surprising, and perhaps even religious.
Read MoreCasper ter Kuile, a Harvard Divinity School fellow and cohost of the popular Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast, explores how we can nourish our souls by transforming common, everyday practices—yoga, reading, walking the dog—into sacred rituals that can heal our crisis of social isolation and struggle to find purpose—a message we need more than ever for our spiritual and emotional well-being in the age of COVID-19.
Read MoreSo often in the Christian church, and no doubt in mosques and synagogues and temples too, people ask themselves, ‘where has everyone gone?’ CBC's Tapestry offers to the church and those who feel at once drawn and dismayed by the church, new insight into the how and where and when people gather for spiritual nourishment.
Read More“Idolatry”, Frederick Buechner writes, “is the practice of ascribing absolute value to things of relative worth. Under certain circumstances, money, patriotism, sexual freedom, moral principles, family loyalty, physical beauty, social or intellectual preeminence, and so on are fine things to have around; but to make them the standard by which all other values are measured, to make them your masters, to look to them to justify your life and save your soul is sheerest folly. They just aren't up to it.”
Read MoreAuthor Robyn Maynard delves behind Canada’s veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slave ships to prisons, classrooms and beyond. Robyn Maynard provides readers with the first comprehensive account of over four hundred years of state-sanctioned surveillance, criminalization and punishment of Black lives in Canada.
Read MoreAdele Halliday, writing in Broadview Magazine, expresses her dismay at the events taking place in the summer of 2020. “I write as a Black Canadian. The events of the past few weeks have been deeply traumatizing. I have been cycling through three main emotions – intense anger, immense exhaustion and deep pain. These emotions are not new to me – they are part of what it means to live in a Black body with the reality of racial injustice.
Read MoreLayla Saad’s book challenges you to do the essential work of unpacking your biases, and helps white people take action and dismantle the privilege within themselves so that you can stop (often unconsciously) inflicting damage on people of color, and in turn, help other white people do better, too. It takes readers on a 28-day journey, complete with journal prompts, to do the necessary and vital work that can ultimately lead to improving race relations.
Read MoreTrailblazers is a disruptive children’s book that introduces readers to Canada’s Black history through the under-told stories of over forty incredible Black change makers. With each short story carefully written in poetic form and accompanied by beautiful illustrations, this tribute brings complex topics and historical facts to life. Engaged readers will finish Trailblazers feeling enlightened, inspired, and ready to blaze their own trails.
Read MoreIf you are new to anti-racism, you may feel either overwhelmed with the amount of material there is to assimilate, and/or unsure where to begin. Just begin somewhere, anywhere. Look over the lists and click at something that catches your eye - read, listen, watch. And then do something, however small, even if that something is just more reading, listening, watching and reflecting. Being anti-racist involves action.
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