United Church member Ginny Shrivastava, on advocating for women in India by David Evans She has spent more than four decades establishing and helping to run rural development organizations in Rajasthan, focusing on divorced, separated and
United Church’s Simon LeSieur on being a youth minister and “love bomber” by Alison Shouldice The youth and family pastor at West Vancouver United, he was one of two MCs at the United Church’s Rendez-vous 2014 youth
Donald B. Smith, historian, writes First Nations back into Canada’s story by Richard Wright It's his passion to highlight the whole history, but he is eager to hear it from Indigenous Peoples themselves
Canada’s new ambassador for religious freedom wants to halt persecution by Mike Milne Religious freedom is in a dire situation in the world today, a growing trend and an assault on fundamental human rights
Psychologist, victim advocate Lori Triano-Antidormi questions crime bills by Patricia Clarke The proposed federal legislation would put in place harsher measures for mentally ill people who commit crimes and stigmatize them
Baseball has religious echoes, says writer and lecturer Peter J. Schwartz by David Wilson The game has a resurrection in spring and a finale every fall in the "holiest of holy" days, the World Series' last
Futurist thinker Barbara Marx Hubbard explains conscious evolution by Karen Hilfman Millson Coming from an agnostic, Jewish background, Hubbard's life was guided by questions, and by the work of French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de
Diana Butler Bass on why mainline churches have disappointed people by Pieta Woolley Questions about belief and belonging and behaviour don’t go away, but people are longing for them to be addressed differently, the Virginia-based
United Church was truly born in the tumult of the 1960s, not in 1925 by Ken Gallinger The early years were a compromise between evangelical thought and liberalism, and liberal theology won out with its evolving interpretation of the
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, the first woman to have the job by Mardi Tindal She grew up in the United Church and found it again when her children were young, becoming solidly involved with her congregation