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The U.S. Immigration System: Why We Need Reform

Posted: June 2, 2014

There are many reasons Central Americans choose to migrate North. However, the violence and risk many Central Americans face while migrating is often just as terrible.

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First Nations Education: Beyond Pithy Headlines

Posted: May 30, 2014

This morning a radio announcer went with a pithy headline: "Yesterday First Nations Chiefs Left $1.9 Billion on the Table."

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Whose Progress?

Posted: May 26, 2014

My wife and I travelled to India in October to visit relatives and friends. We have been there several times in the past 45 years and clearly, changes over that period are dramatic.

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Boko Haram, Women, and War

Posted: May 23, 2014

"It is more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier in modern conflict.”* According to the United Nations, women and girls are targeted as a tactic of war to “humiliate, dominate, instill fear in, punish, disperse and/or forcibly relocate members o

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Rally to Free Lulu

Posted: May 19, 2014

This is the third year in a row that Lulu has celebrated her birthday in sanctuary.  Almost two and a half years ago, Lulu and her parents saw no other option but to move into a Toronto church when they were threatened with deportation to Hungary.

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The Boko Haram Kidnappings' CRC Connection

Posted: May 16, 2014

So this is personal – not just to Ron Geerlings and me but to the CRCNA. I remember this area, its farmers and church leaders. We have been at schools just like the burned-out shell you see on the news.

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Review: The New Jim Crow

Posted: May 12, 2014

In her book The New Jim Crow: Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness, Michelle Alexander asserts that in an age of color blindness the racialization and oppression of African-Americans continues.

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Refugee Education in the Worship Service

Posted: May 9, 2014

Did your congregation miss Refugee Sunday this April? World Refugee Day is coming up on June 20. Why not focus on refugees then? 

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Review: The Middle of Everywhere

Posted: May 5, 2014

Are you interested in the plight of refugees? Would you like to sponsor refugees as a group or church? The book The Middle of Everywhere by Mary Pipher is a great resource to help you.

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Restoring the Water of the Walleye

Posted: May 2, 2014

What happens in the Plaster Creek watershed has far reaching effects. 

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