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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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Rebuke Your Neighbor

Posted: April 28, 2014

Last year, the Rana Plaza garment factory suddenly collapsed, killing more than 1,100 workers and injuring around 2,500.

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A Muddy Reflection

Posted: April 25, 2014

Last summer our high school youth group set out on a service trip. Nothing new, right? Hordes of students head out every summer to change another little piece of the world.

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Belle's Story

Posted: April 18, 2014

About a year ago, I met a woman named Belle, who was trying to leave prostitution. As we began to form a friendship she began to tell me her story. Though the details differ, her story echoes those of other women who have survived prostitution.

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It All Started When My Car Blew Up

Posted: April 14, 2014

It was an early morning during the second week of August, a typical day like most others. I said goodbye to my family, then drove away. My destination, a conference in Wyoming, MI. Driving along US 131-South, and making good time, I heard a loud n

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A Lot of Hope, and a Dash of Crazy

Posted: April 11, 2014

My heart was racing. The chairs, which had been placed in a large circle, were moved to the side of the town hall we were meeting in. Once they were cleared away, we took our places in two lines facing each other.

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Days of Prayer and Action for Colombia

Posted: April 7, 2014

Every day at five am in the small rural community of Basurú, on Colombia’s Pacific Coast, a group from the local Mennonite church gathers to broadcast the events of the day.

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The Town that Immigration Built

Posted: April 4, 2014

This is Chinatown in Washington DC. Settlements like these sprung up around the US in the late 1800’s. Pioneering men from China left everything behind—property, employment, etc—for attractive offers to work in America.

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To Lament is to Reconcile

Posted: March 31, 2014

Reconciliation requires lamentation. An expression of sorrow at the ways we allow oppression to persist is an important step before true reconciliation can take place. Accordingly, this is my reconciliation lamentation…

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Waiting for the Drums

Posted: March 28, 2014

Growing up, I had very little contact with my Mohawk heritage. As a third-generation, church-going, Indigenous person who grew up off-reserve, I feel this scenario is reflective of the separation that has occurred between the Indigenous nations and the rest of Canada – and also of the rift that currently exists between the church and Indigenous peoples. 

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