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Indigenous Wisdom: Living in Harmony with Mother Earth (pdf) (2017)
Printed copies are also available. Please contact us at orders@kairoscanada.org to place your order. This new KAIROS publication explores how the ancestral wisdom of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas can guide us as we face unprecedented challenges from climate…
Resource filed in: Case Studies & Reports, Ecological Justice
News
Mountain-top Moments and the Valleys of Reconciliation: Reflections on Matthew 17:1-9 – by Marcie Gibson
February 25, 2014
“Justice Murray Sinclair states, ‘Reconciliation is about forging and maintaining respectful relationships. There are no shortcuts.’ As finishing touches are underway for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s seventh and final National Event in Edmonton, on March 27-30, 2014 (www.trc.ca), I…
Post filed in: Indigenous Rights, Spirited Reflections
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Centering Indigenous Ways of Knowing
June 5, 2023
Indigenous peoples’ teachings can guide us in learning how to live in harmony with Mother Earth, taking only what we need, conscious of the impact of our actions on seven generations to come.Indigenous Wisdom: Living in Harmony with Mother Earth…
Post filed in: Climate Action Week, Ecological Justice
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Week 4 – COP27 Solidarity- Indigenous Partners
September 19, 2022
During Indigenous Solidarity Week, we turn our attention to the Indigenous peoples and youth members of the KAIROS/For the Love of Creation delegation to COP27 in Sharm E-Sheikh, Egypt in November. Each delegate greets us with a video that will…
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Remembering forward #KAIROS20
September 16, 2021
KAIROS is turning twenty! To many of us of a certain vintage, the endless meetings, the multiple restructuring initiatives and options, the then-so-consequential ‘deal-breaker” issues that stirred such passion and angst, the phone calls and frenetic conversations to reach compromises and, yes, the ultimate…
Post filed in: #KAIROS20 Anniversary
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Climate Action Month wrap up
September 30, 2020
Today we wrap up the second annual Climate Action Month. For the last 30 days, we have reflected, gained new understanding, amplified voices, lamented, celebrated, and taken collective action to address the climate crisis. The content, events, and actions that KAIROS shared this month were intended…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice
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Streams of Justice Schedule, May 2-5, 2019
May 1, 2019
Now is your chance…build skills and relationships, contribute your gifts…join a movement! Creating a climate for peace and social actionEquipping new and renewed advocatesLearning and working together for change Streams of Justice is your opportunity to delve deeper into the…
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Q & A with Sr. Mary Ellen Francoeur, ‘living contemplatively in the universe’
April 13, 2017
Sr. Mary Ellen Francoeur lives with intent, focusing on “growing into being more fully human.” After decades doing peace work, seeking truth and reconciliation for Canada’s indigenous people, and in short-term healing work with communities in Rwanda and the Democratic…
Post filed in: Africa, Ecological Justice
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Reflection on pilgrimage of justice and peace: We came, we saw, we listened…
January 31, 2017
In 2015, Bishop Susan Johnson, National Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, The Rev. Dr. Willard Metzger, Executive Director, Mennonite Church Canada and I, The Rev. Dr. Karen Hamilton, General Secretary of The Canadian Council of Churches, took…
Post filed in: Spirited Reflections
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The Stones Will Cry Out by Jennifer Henry
June 24, 2015
Spirited Reflection offered at the Orientation Assembly of Development and Peace, Otterburne, Manitoba, June 12, 2015 Jennifer Henry is the Executive Director of KAIROS And some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, rebuke your disciples.” Jesus…
Post filed in: Indigenous Rights, Spirited Reflections
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Video Blog: Joan Carling at the UNPFII
June 3, 2014
Several of the Honouring Indigenous Women’s Wisdom delegates spoke on May 21 at From Canada to Guatemala to the Philippines: Honouring Indigenous Women’s Wisdom, a KAIROS-Horizons panel that was an official side event at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Indigenous Rights, UNDRIP Blog Updates
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Holy Trouble in the Watershed
February 12, 2014
Whether it’s overfishing or the environmental and human rights impacts of resource extraction, as watershed disciples we are sometimes called to make holy trouble. In this sermon at Toronto’s Trinity St. Paul’s United Church, KAIROS member relations and campaigns coordinator…
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Truth and Mercy in the South Saskatchewan Watershed – by Eileen Klassen Hamm
July 22, 2013
Eileen Klassen Hamm, Program Director for Mennonite Central Committee Saskatchewan, writes about watershed discipleship and right relationship on the South Saskatchewan River.
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, Indigenous Rights, Spirited Reflections
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Be Not Afraid – 40 years of bold witness to ecumenical social justice
June 3, 2013
May 8, 2013, The Church of the Redeemer, Toronto Joe Mihevc, co-editor of Coalitions for Justice Jennifer Henry, Executive Director of KAIROS Jennifer: Tonight we are here to celebrate 40 years of bold witness to ecumenical social justice. We want…
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Indigenous Wisdom: Living in Harmony with Mother Earth – Policy Briefing Paper #39
October 16, 2014
This summary of our longer study on how the ancestral wisdom of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas can guide us as we face unprecedented challenges from climate change and related ecological crises is now available as a Briefing Paper….
Post filed in: Ecological Justice
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Intro to climate solutions week: Listening to Indigenous wisdom #KAIROSClimateAction
September 27, 2021
Over the last couple of weeks, we have explored several issues related to climate justice including ending the proliferation of fossil fuels, upholding Indigenous rights, making reparations for ecological debt and so much more. In these last days of Climate Action…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice
Event
STONY POINT, NY: Shaping Solidarity in Search for Social Justice
Shaping Solidarity in the Search for Social Justice The Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice – Stony Point Center, Stony Point, New York Fifth Anniversary Conference – October 20-22, 2016 In the 21st Century, the work of…
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It’s Time To Decarbonise
June 2, 2014
Indigenous activist Winona LaDuke energized the As Long As the Rivers Flow conference with a compelling challenge to learn from Indigenous knowledge and wisdom.
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, Indigenous Rights
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Where the Thunderbirds Live
July 26, 2023
Last week I was fortunate to spend time with northern Anishinaabeg in Thunder Bay. I am no stranger to this city and lived in the East End while I attended high school, working at Victoriaville Mall in a small educational…
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Indigenous Knowledge in Action – Mayan Women on Local Policy Councils
June 9, 2023
Imagine Indigenous women at decision-making tables from the local level right up to the national, deliberating with communities and governments in the defense of Mother Earth and incorporating Indigenous knowledge and wisdom into state laws? This is something that doesn’t…
Post filed in: Climate Action Week, Ecological Justice
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Never a Better Time
March 31, 2023
KAIROS Regina invites you on a journey of faith, one that challenges our comfortable lives and changes the very buildings we worship in. On October 15, 2022, they hosted a workshop called, “Creation Care in our Places of Prayer: Energy…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, Regional News, Spirited Reflections
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Cast the net wide
October 7, 2022
KAIROS Regina invites you on a journey of faith, one that challenges our comfortable lives and changes the very buildings we worship in. On October 15, KAIROS Regina will host a one-day hybrid conference called, “Creation Care in our Places…
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The World KAIROS Blanket Exercise delivers at WIPCE 2022 in Australia
October 5, 2022
Español sigue. Despite the colonial bureaucracies to obtain visas and passports, despite the labyrinths of multiple airports and the long hours of waiting and flights, Gloria Gonzalez a Maya Achi woman from Guatemala and Dario Iza president of the Kitu…
Post filed in: Indigenous Rights
News
The truth in Truth and Reconciliation
September 30, 2022
Truth and Reconciliation isn’t about living in or reliving the past. It’s about learning the truth of the past, looking within ourselves and accepting its truth, learning from it and moving forward from it. For thousands of years, Indigenous peoples…
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Sharing Indigenous knowledge for those willing to listen
September 24, 2022
For numerous generations, Indigenous peoples have had unique, respectful and sacred ties to the land that sustained them. They do not claim ownership of Mother Earth, but rather, declare a sense of stewardship towards the land and all of its…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, Indigenous Rights
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The call to anti-racism is a call to transformation
July 27, 2022
Acknowledging Indigenous territory I write to you from Treaty One Territory: the land of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene Peoples, and the homeland of the Métis Nation. I acknowledge that from time immemorial, Indigenous Peoples have lived as stewards…
Post filed in: Spirited Reflections
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Decolonization is at the heart of effective climate action
February 25, 2022
Photo: Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault, pictured on the Hill on Jan. 31, 2022. Decolonization is at the heart of effective climate action. This means giving space to Black and other racialized people, particularly women, to have a…
Post filed in: Ecological Justice, Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Op Eds
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What is the glue that has kept this ecumenical initiative together? #KAIROS20
January 4, 2022
A twentieth anniversary is an occasion to celebrate, to reflect and to give thanks. KAIROS has not only survived but thrived. What is the glue that has kept this ecumenical initiative together? I believe there are several ingredients. For the…
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