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UCC in Focus | Interview
United Church member Florence Kaefer on being a reconciliation pioneer
Her journey of reconciliation with former Norway House student and abuse victim Edward Gamblin has drawn national media attention and is the subject of a recent co-authored memoir
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UCC in Focus | Interview
United Church members Jim and Eva Manly on campaigning for Palestinians
In 2012, Jim was an Israeli prison after joining 29 others on the Estelle, a sailing ship with a mission to run the blockade of Gaza and deliver humanitarian supplies to Palestinians
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UCC in Focus | Religion
Outreach workers try to keep churches growing, but face paltry pay
What is it costing the church's future when so many who are trying to help it evolve, have to settle for part-time work?
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Ethical Living | Society
Small B.C. island community is split on coal transport in strait
People on tiny Texada, north of Vancouver, worry the community will vanish if industry wishes thwarted
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Faith | Interview, Society
Diana Butler Bass on why mainline churches have disappointed people
Questions about belief and belonging and behaviour don’t go away, but people are longing for them to be addressed differently, the Virginia-based author says
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Justice | Indigenous
Residential schools foster traumatic legacy in child-protection numbers
Thousands of Indigenous children are caught up in the foster care system, a haunting echo of all those children taken to residential schools
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World | Society
Malawi draws the author back after 13 years, but redemption is elusive
Pieta Woolley promised to raise money for an African community but failed to deliver. Her lapse has haunted her all these years
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Justice | Indigenous
Residential school survivors’ scars bleed into following generations
The arrogant colonial practice left families broken, communities shattered and dreams extinguished for generations
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Wellness | Religion
Obesity problem may be a crisis of faith, as well as of health
Does the rise of obesity have its roots in spiritual malaise, as some evangelical and fundamentalist Christian gurus say?
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Faith | Society
United Church minister and evangelical preacher find common ground
Their Vancouver churches are close, their theologies are not, but these two clergy are learning from each other and becoming friends
