June 2020
In this issue:
- Will Canada let Ron Posno die on his own terms?
- What growing churches are doing right
- The burden of keeping secrets
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In This Issue
Letters
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Uncategorised
Responses to our April issue (print exclusive)
Snapshot
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Justice
Photos give intimate look into migrants’ journeys
Verónica G. Cárdenas joined about 200 people who made their way north from Tapachula, Mexico
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Justice
This month in 1960 (social media exclusive)
Decolonization
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Justice
Survey says (print exclusive)
Food bank use in Canada
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Ethical Living
Making ancient beer and other monkish activities (social media exclusive)
These monks are living out their faith while breaking stereotypes about monastic living
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Spirituality
Tool kit (print exclusive)
Jennifer Fotheringham
Perspective
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Ethical Living
Coronavirus comments expose underbelly of ageism, ableism
Saying "only" the elderly, ill or disabled will die of COVID-19 devalues their lives
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Spirituality
I miss the old Lord’s Prayer
I had a powerful connection to this prayer, but the church's changes have rendered it ordinary
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Justice
The West can’t lay claim to LGBTQ2 acceptance
How Christian colonialism played a role in the decline of queer affirmation
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Justice
Mustafa Farooq on the politics of love
The CEO of the National Council of Canadian Muslims says the answer to division is conversation
Features
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Ethical Living
Will Canada let Ron Posno die on his terms?
The 80-year-old has early signs of dementia. When the time comes, he wants a medically assisted death. But the law may not allow it.
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Ethical Living
How my husband and I spent our final hours together
He wanted to die before cancer killed him, and that morning, he would get his wish
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Ethical Living
A Sixties Scoop survivor’s healing journey
Artist Mike Alexander on "emerging through the other side of hell"
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Ethical Living
When secrets become a burden
Hiding our deepest truths can make us sick. Maybe it's time to open up.
Spotlight
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Spirituality
Groundbreaking trilogy finds Zoroastrian ties in religions
The ambitious project opens the scriptures of seven faiths to anyone who wishes to learn
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Ethical Living
Families lost and found (print exclusive)
Debut novel explores the shifting tide of memory
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Ethical Living
How to sing a rainbow (print exclusive)
A San Francisco gay choir tours the Bible Belt
UCC In Focus
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UCC in Focus
This minister listens to her community
There's a place in Barrie, Ont., where the vulnerable and marginalized are listened to deeply, without judgment
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UCC in Focus
How the United Church supported Wet’suwet’en
People in the church took action through letters, discussions, marches and meetings
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UCC in Focus
A ‘Christian animist’ on God in nature
Mark I. Wallace describes the Earth as a "living soul" capable of emotion
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UCC in Focus
How to grow a church
Hundreds of United churches are actually expanding. Here's what they're doing right.
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UCC in Focus
‘Believe in the goodness of people’
Meet Rev. Bob Burrows, who started the Dugout in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
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UCC in Focus
Question box (print exclusive)
Staying connected
