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Westside CRC Lives the 8th Fire

Posted: August 26, 2015

A Muslim man from Iran, a few students from the CRC campus ministry Geneva House, several First Nations or Metis people, and a couple dozen other members of churches from across Kingston gathered at Westside Fellowship CRC in Kingston.

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Jesus Work

Posted: August 17, 2015

When explaining the ministry of Humanity for Prisoners in many of my public presentations, I refer to our daily advocacy as “Jesus Work.” 

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What Being Pro-Life Means to Me

Posted: August 14, 2015

She had also just come from work. She was dressed in a professional pant-suit. I gave her the instructions for the pregnancy test, and once that was taken care of, she sat down and explained her situation to me.

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A Culture of Rape

Posted: August 3, 2015

I recently watched a 20/20 episode entitled “Reversal of Fortune”. 20/20 was reporting on a newly granted mistrial in the case of two Vanderbilt Universi

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Remember Those in Prison

Posted: July 31, 2015

Why treat prisoners humanely? What’s the point? This is prison we're talking about, not a country club. What can they expect? 

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Cycles of Poverty...and My Place

Posted: July 27, 2015

My cousin phoned me out of the blue. I haven’t heard from him for awhile. Usually that is the case. I only hear from him when he is in dire straits and this wasn’t the exception.

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Learning from Laudato Si'

Posted: July 24, 2015

While the scientific and policy issues raised in the encyclical will get the most press attention, Francis is primarily doing theology. He emphasizes repeatedly that non-human creatures are not here only to serve us.

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What Kuyper Really Said about the Church and Politics

Posted: July 20, 2015

I find these debates which claim the authority of Abraham Kuyper for keeping the institutional church out of social issues unfortunate. Not unfortunate because we don’t need serious debate – we do!

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Cruise Ship Volunteer Tourism and Millennials

Posted: July 16, 2015

As I read the article my heart sank as I realized that the cruise ship line industry has begun to promote volunteerism cruises in order to attract millennials, a younger customer base who have a bent for social justice causes.

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Microaggressions: Who Gets to Belong?

Posted: July 10, 2015

Over the course of the past couple of years, I have been introduced to the term “microaggression.” I think I have known what microaggressions are for years, but hadn’t had the right word for them until recently.

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