September 2019
In this issue:
- Inside the youth movement fighting the climate crisis
- Gay-straight alliances: the struggle in Catholic schools
- A letter to my opioid-addicted father
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In This Issue
Letters
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Ethical Living
Responses to our June issue (print exclusive)
Snapshot
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Ethical Living
Survey says (print exclusive)
How much do we know about dying?
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Justice, Uncategorised
Mapped out (print exclusive)
10 longest boil water advisories
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Spirituality
Theology students doing cool things (print exclusive)
Online churches and other topics theology students are tackling
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Ethical Living
The lens (print exclusive)
Rwandan genocide survivors of sexual violence
Perspective
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Ethical Living
In this climate crisis, listen to Indigenous wisdom
We have broken natural law. How do we regain our balance?
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Ethical Living
What I learned when I stopped chasing ‘likes’
In the age of social media over-sharing, one travel writer puts down his camera and recaptures the true meaning of his expeditions
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Justice
LGBTQ2 ally hopes student voices will stay strong
Kevin Welbes Godin, a former Catholic school teacher, paved the way for better inclusion in Canadian classrooms
Features
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Justice
‘The adults have failed us’
Youth have taken the lead in fighting the climate crisis. It’s time for the rest of us to join them.
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Ethical Living
A letter to my opioid-addicted father
A daughter reflects on growing up in the shadow of Oxycontin
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Spirituality
Proud, queer and celibate
For some LGBTQ2 Christians, choosing abstinence reconciles their faith and sexuality. But not everyone agrees with their controversial decision.
Spotlight
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Spirituality
How faith inspired many of our favourite superheroes
Themes of good and evil underpin both the stories of religious scriptures and comic books
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Ethical Living
‘Conviction’ flips script for women behind bars
A new documentary sheds light on the fastest growing prison population in Canada: women
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Spirituality
Book: A rapport with Northrop Frye (print exclusive)
An approachable introduction to the legendary Canadian theologian
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Ethical Living
Book: Exploring Canada’s city trees (print exclusive)
This guide through urban forests is a gentle rallying cry to fight the climate crisis
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Ethical Living
Poem: Picking Berries with Kokum
From "From the Ashes"
UCC In Focus
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UCC in Focus
Churches and Guatemalan town team up for new school
Three Vancouver congregations raised more than $130,000
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UCC in Focus
How 3 United Church retreat centres came back to life
The centres are expanding their reach by creating partnerships with other faith and social justice groups, and renting space to social enterprises
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UCC in Focus
Why do we sing hymns at church?
Some worship leaders use song as filler, but hymn lyrics can stay with people after sermons are forgotten
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UCC in Focus
Question box (print exclusive)
Can ministers do double duty?
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UCC in Focus
Vibrant high school ministry celebrates 20 years (print exclusive)
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UCC in Focus
‘The church is the hero in this story’ (print exclusive)
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UCC in Focus
Japanese travellers celebrate the woman who founded their school (print exclusive)
