Politics
Readers respond to Trump’s victory
In the week since the U.S. election results were announced, you've shared words of disappointment, fear and hope
Justice
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Women
Homeless shelters are seeing more women in need of their help
Women are the fastest-growing segment of Canada's homeless population, but many shelters aren't designed to take care of them
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Indigenous
Former residential school teacher reunites with one of her students
They hadn’t seen each other since he was a student at a residential school in Manitoba and she was a teacher. A chance reunion started a remarkable journey of healing.
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Indigenous
United Church supports translation of Bible into Indigenous languages
In a bygone era, the Bible was a tool for subverting Indigenous cultures, but recent translations aim to preserve endangered Indigenous tongues
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Indigenous
United Church apology 10 years ago helped set bar for federal government
The church apologized for its involvement in running residential schools for Indigenous children, and for all the pain and hardship those schools caused
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Society
Victoria’s homeless have rooms of their own in a $14-million facility
The new building sprang from a collaboration between a United Church drop-in centre and an interdenominational Christian housing centre
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Interview
Churches, complicit in the slave trade, must promote healing, dignity
The World Council of Churches has called for reparation for churches' roles in failing to take a strong enough stand against enslavement. That means affirming the humanity of all people
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Interview
United Church members are part of a global system that fails many
That system of domination, also known as "empire," leads ordinary people to be complicit through their role as consumers, says Omega Bula, who wrote a report about it for General Council
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Indigenous
An Indigenous mother searches for answers on B.C.’s Highway of Tears
Some highways have souls; others are merely pavement. The soul of Highway 16, the 720-km-long branch of the Trans-Canada that spans northern British Columbia from Prince George to Prince Rupert, is deeply troubled. It’s a mean road. Logging trucks, as rickety as they are over-laden, roar its length day and…
