Spirituality
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April/May 2023
In this issue:
- My grandfather was murdered in the Holocaust. This Passover, a packet of old postcards will help me remember him.
- An interview with journalistic reformer Duncan McCue
- Illustrated: Saskatchewan Mennonites’ fight to halt the construction of a uranium refinery in their community
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In This Issue
Letters
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Ethical Living
Reply all (print exclusive)
A reprieve
Snapshot
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Ethical Living
The lens (print exclusive)
Mohawk photographer Shelby Lisk captures the rematriation of heirloom seeds
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Ethical Living
This month in 2006 (print exclusive)
Rhinoceros Party relaunches in Canada
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Justice
Survey says (print exclusive)
Food insecurity in Canada
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Spirituality
Cool things (print exclusive)
Faith communities with living walls
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Ethical Living
Good advice (print exclusive)
How to get better rest
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Justice
Mapped out (print exclusive)
Living wage vs. minimum wage across Canada
Perspective
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Spirituality
Why I’ll make the sign of the cross for the rest of my life
How this Greek Orthodox gesture became part of me
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Spirituality
Why Jesus is history’s most overlooked conservationist
The son of God would likely have approved of environmentalists' blockades and sit-ins
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Justice
Pretendians betray the trust of the Indigenous community — and downplay our struggles
To be used as a prop in someone’s career ambitions is a repugnant violation
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Ethical Living
For more than two decades, Duncan McCue has been a reformer of Canadian news
The Toronto investigative journalist is doing his part to help decolonize the media
Features
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Justice
Failed Canadian political candidates question who the selection process leaves out
All major parties do extensive background checks on their candidates, but researchers call the exercise of recruiting and picking candidates a "black box" with little public oversight
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Ethical Living
My grandfather was murdered in the Holocaust. These postcards help me remember him.
A gift from my mother introduced me to a man I never knew and revealed the love within a marriage cut short
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Justice
How Prairie Mennonites took on a uranium refinery in the 1970s and won
Near Warman, Sask., a young philosophy student helped start a movement that halted the project
Spotlight
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Ethical Living
Taking the long view (print exclusive)
In praise of the fiercely reflective midlife narrator
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Spirituality
Lent: Part 3 (print exclusive)
A longing for faith runs through “Lent,” the title poem of a new collection by Toronto writer Kate Cayley. The poem won the Mitchell Prize for Faith and Poetry in 2021.
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Ethical Living
Sheima Benembarek’s ‘Halal Sex’ explores Muslim women’s intimate lives
The author on the powerful role of shame and the responsibility she felt to her sources
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Ethical Living
‘Riceboy Sleeps’ explores the burden of belonging
The new film captures the fraught relationship between an immigrant mother and a son who just wants to fit in
UC In Focus
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UCC in Focus
Metropolitan United restores its century-old carillon
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UCC in Focus
The United Church has an ambitious plan to grow its membership
The denomination is aiming to create 100 new churches and other faith communities
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UCC in Focus
Question Box (print exclusive)
Sizing up the United Church's big plan
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UCC in Focus
Retrospect (print exclusive)
A story for all ages
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UCC in Focus
Easter calls us to change the world
United Church moderator Carmen Lansdowne on why the hope of the Resurrection should spur us to envision a more just reality
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UCC in Focus
Emmanuel College’s new principal on her big vision for the theological school
HyeRan Kim-Cragg is the first racialized person in the role
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UCC in Focus
Life lessons from the land (print exclusive)
Growing up in the Yukon wilderness taught me to look for hidden truths
