Justice
At 13, Willie Blackwater stood up to his abuser at a B.C. residential school
His defiance would eventually help change the course of Canadian history.
Society
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Spirituality
When faith and tradition collide with sexual education
In the face of a new sex-ed curriculum, one United Church-minister-turned-teacher is using her own coming-out experience to educate young people
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Ethical Living
This is the world our children will inherit, and it’s not looking good
Climate chaos. Economic upheaval. Psychological stress. A futurist looks for hope amid the coming turmoil.
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UCC in Focus
Inside a United Church success story
A photo essay looks at the "Hillhurst effect."
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Ethical Living, Spirituality
Who says religion and pornography don’t mix?
Online erotica is booming, and so are porn addictions. But mainline churches seem all too content to look away.
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Justice
How a Gitxsan community fought back against an epidemic of youth suicide
Whenever Gloria Stevens drives across the Hagwilget Canyon Bridge, she focuses on its beauty, not its deadly allure. Suspended 80 metres above the fast-flowing Bulkley River, carved out of the Roche de Boule mountain range in northwestern British Columbia’s Gitxsan territory, the single-lane structure is a spectacular sight. But as…
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Justice
Small-town Ontario murder seemed like a blatant case of racist violence, but the truth goes deeper
The beating death of Andrew Mixemong three years ago exposes gaps in the social fabric we’d rather ignore
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Justice
Broken dreams in Little Mogadishu
Canada's Somali community continues to struggle with higher-than-average levels of violence, unemployment and discrimination
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UCC in Focus
Ending a marriage is tough. Imagine what it’s like when you’re a minister
"There’s not only the fishbowl of congregational life to contend with, but also the real or self-imposed holier-than-thou expectations that somehow ministers ought to be immune to marital dysfunction"
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Ethical Living
Cuba and the U. S. are resuming relations — and it’s complicated
The island has been under economic blockade for more than 50 years by its powerful neighbour
