Spirituality
Grandma’s illness
She taught me about accepting difference in others.
Current issue
October/November 2021
In this issue:
- Church of the Wild founder Victoria Loorz explains how outdoor worship can heal our spiritual relationship with the Earth
- Go inside the United Church-led movement to create supervised consumption sites
- Join Vivian Ketchum, an Anishinabe “gramma”, as she and other elders embark on a road trip to bring closure to residential school survivors.
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In This Issue
Editor's Letter
Letters
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Spirituality
Reply all (print exclusive)
In our July/August issue, four writers explored a personal connection with their favourite holy figure
Snapshot
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Spirituality
The lens (print exclusive)
“The people whose voices I’m trying to amplify are working-class, Scarborough-living racialized people, like my parents.”
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Justice
This month in 1937 (print exclusive)
Canada’s connection to "Redemption Song"
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Ethical Living
Timeline: A brief history of Daylight Saving Time (print exclusive)
We love getting an extra hour of sleep when the clocks turn back — and dread losing one in the spring
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Ethical Living
Cool things (print exclusive)
These faith organizations are spreading good for goodness' sake
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Ethical Living
Good advice (print exclusive)
How to help someone who is grieving
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Spirituality
Ode to offering envelopes (print exclusive)
Everyone who has ever attended church likely recognizes offering envelopes
Perspective
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Spirituality
The genealogy of faith
I am related to God through the covenants of my parents and their ancestors
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Ethical Living
Let’s ditch faux Canadian politeness for genuine tenderness
Our over-apologetic nature has become a joke
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Ethical Living
Peaks and valleys
How I learned to live with my depression
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Spirituality
Wild and sacred
Victoria Loorz’s outdoor church network aims to heal our spiritual relationship with the Earth
Features
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Ethical Living
My father’s nose, my mother’s anxiety
Isaac Würmann reflects on the mental illness that runs through his family tree
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Ethical Living
Residential school survivor documents ‘spiritual journey’ — and the photos are powerful
Three grandmothers — all residential school survivors — embarked on a road trip west to bring prayers and gifts to First Nations communities mourning the children whose remains were confirmed at former school sites.
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Justice
Death of a rising star
Chiamaka Okoli was a rarity in physics — a Black woman, a mother, a devout Catholic. She challenged norms right up until her untimely end.
Spotlight
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Spirituality
‘One holy thing’ (print exclusive)
Sinéad O’Connor reveals the soul of a punk in a bracing new memoir
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Spirituality
‘Learning how to burn’ (print exclusvie)
The conflicts and joys of growing up Mennonite
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Ethical Living
The long conversation (print exclusive)
When the pandemic hit, writer Ivan Coyote found connection in a stack of unanswered letters
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Spirituality
Modern faith (print exclusive)
The "Unholier Than Thou" podcast isn’t scared to mix religion and politics
United Church in Focus
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Spirituality
Churches band together to mourn COVID-19’s impact on communities of colour
Rev. Stephen Milton says the number of crosses relates to Ontario’s daily death count
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UCC in Focus
Minister creates self-guided jazz walk (print exclusive)
Scan the QR code, and you’ll find yourself invited into a soundscape of poetry, hymns and improvisational jazz.
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Justice
New podcast on child welfare (print exclusive)
Marcus Rempel wants to engage Canadians in “a conversation about decolonizing child welfare.
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UCC in Focus
Question box (print exclusive)
Does the United Church still practice evangelism?
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UCC in Focus
Retrospect (print exclusive)
Scientists who parse primitive feasting sites conclude that the shared meal is not just the product of human civilization, but also its definition.
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Ethical Living
Safe harbour
The United Church movement for supervised consumption sites
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Ethical Living
‘Poetry has been an ally’
When Margot van Sluytman's father was shot, life as she knew it ended.
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UCC in Focus
God at the lagoon (print exclusive)
A chance meeting at trail’s end was exactly what I needed
Disruptor
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Ethical Living
Shay Paul, sustainable food advocate
Food security and sustainable agriculture are tied to the issue of climate change, says the advocate
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