Spirituality
An Indigenous minister answers the question: Why are you a Christian?
Rev. Murray Pruden is the guest editor for Broadview's September issue
September 2022
In this issue:
- One woman’s journey to reclaim her Sámi roots
- The United Church’s residential school legacy
- How Indigenous influencers are making culture cool
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In This Issue
Letters
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Ethical Living
Reply all (print exclusive)
Invisible crimes
Snapshot
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Ethical Living
The lens (print exclusive)
Mer Young's arresting collages reframe stoic portraits of Indigenous people from history
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Justice
This month in 2021 (print exclusive)
First national day for truth and reconciliation
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Ethical Living
Survey says (print exclusive)
Canadians want to age at home
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Ethical Living
Cool things (print exclusive)
Faith communities plant and grow food forests
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Ethical Living
Good advice (print exclusive)
How to best support health-care workers right now
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Ethical Living
Tool kit (print exclusive)
Angela DeMontigny, a Cree-Métis entrepreneur, candlemaker and designer, is guided by spirituality
Perspective
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Spirituality
Was Jesus a Pharisee?
A long tradition of anti-Semitism has taken Christ out of context
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Justice
How Canadian churches can live out this TRC call to action
Faith communities should use their stock holdings to support Indigenous communities
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Ethical Living
The Quiet Parks movement fights an invisible yet dangerous form of pollution
Quiet isn’t just an absence; it can be “a place of possibility.”
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Ethical Living
Inuit organization president on hearing the Pope’s 1st apology for residential schools
"Once you have a relationship with another person... it's much harder for them to ignore you," says Natan Obed
Features
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Spirituality
In her new book, Anishinaabe author Patty Krawec explores how creation stories shape us
"Forcing us into a different creation story begins our disconnection from the land."
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Spirituality
My faith has led me back home to myself as Cree
"It is in circles of sharing and learning from others that I continue in my healing."
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Spirituality
How I have found healing in remembering sacred Indigenous teachings
As a nehiyô, every breath I take is an act of survival
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Spirituality
This spiritual practice both comforts me and takes me outside my comfort zone
Journal making 'teaches me to be gentle with myself'
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Spirituality
How a spider — and my grandmother — helped me appreciate all life
”That spider could be your great-grandpa,” my granny told me one day
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Spirituality
I returned to the land of my Sámi ancestors to reclaim my identity
The only Indigenous people in Europe, the Sámi have survived 1,000 years of colonialism
Spotlight
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Ethical Living
How Indigenous influencers are celebrating their cultures on social media
Young social media stars like Theland Kicknosway are using their platforms to push back against negative stereotypes
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Spirituality
Out of the shadows (print exclusive)
Shyam Selvadurai’s lyrical new novel tells the story of the Buddha’s wife
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Ethical Living
Material connections (print exclusive)
Past and present inspire at a new Inuit art centre in Winnipeg
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Ethical Living
‘Hallelujah’ and Leonard Cohen’s personal mythology of betrayal and forgiveness
A new documentary is just the latest to explore the late songwriter's story
United Church In Focus
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UCC in Focus
New confirmation book delves into discipleship (print exclusive)
In June, the United Church Publishing House released a confirmation book — the first of its kind in decades
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UCC in Focus
Treaty Land Sharing Network links Indigenous land users with settler farmers
One of the Saskatchewan program's goals is to make it easier for Indigenous people to access land
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UCC in Focus
Will churches get back to pre-pandemic attendance?
Question Box columnist Christopher White addresses a reader
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UCC in Focus
Retrospect (print exclusive)
The heartbeat of Mother Earth
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UCC in Focus
How the United Church got into the business of residential schools
"The churches were addicted to the funding and prestige of government support"
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UCC in Focus
Day school survivors need access to United Church archives
The denomination needs to act quickly to digitize its archival holdings and make the information easy to attain
