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Spirited Reflection: Salmon lament
March 22, 2019
Lent is about taking time to look at what lies heavy on our hearts. To acknowledge these things and then reflect on the ways in which our lives could change to create space and opportunity for new perspective and renewed…
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Reflections on the 40th Anniversary celebration of the Organización Feminina Popular (OFP) by Susan Ferguson
August 13, 2012
by Special Guest, Susan Ferguson I was privileged beyond measure to attend this celebration of the OFP, an organization which has been a partner of KAIROS and the Latin America coalitions that preceded it for more than a…
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When ALL are free- A look at the conflict in Palestine/Israel and the hopes and challenges of a new generation…
“Until all are free, none are free.” This event invites us to explore what freedom might look like in Palestine/Israel, when ALL are free… President Trump recently announced his “Deal of the Century” that he believes will create the conditions…
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A reclamation of space – how the women of Barrancabermeja, Colombia took back their territory during the OFP’s Humanitarian Mission
March 14, 2024
Spanish/Español Early in the morning on March 9, women from various municipalities around Barrancabermeja, Colombia mobilized to participate and support their sisters from a neighbourhood called Comuna 7 in a march that left Camilo Torres Park at 7 am. Near…
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Global Climate Strike
September 13, 2023
This weekend, millions of people around the world will take to the streets to demand a rapid, just, and equitable transition away from fossil fuels as world leaders gather at the UN in New York. This year, the masses will…
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Spirited Reflections on sheep and goats
March 7, 2017
The “sheep and goats” passage from Matthew: 25 is a familiar one to Christians who yearn for God’s justice in our world. I was recently asked to preach on this passage and decided to consider three different perspectives. The first…
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Prepare IN the Wilderness: Reflection for Advent 3 by Stephen Larson
December 9, 2014
Stephen Larson from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada tells us that punctuation is important in that it is IN the wilderness times of our lives that we prepare the way of the Lord.
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Resurrection: Trust Needed – by Sean Neil-Barron
April 28, 2014
Sean Neil-Barron brings fresh insights to the familiar passage known as The Road to Emmaus. “I don’t think it’s a coincidence that important things happen over food. First dates, family fights, communion – in sharing food together we enter into…
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Fasting from Inaction and Complacency – by JoAnne Lam
February 3, 2014
In this week’s Spirited Reflection JoAnne Lam, seminary intern at St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church and CPJ, explains, “In Isaiah 58:1-9a, the people of Israel struggled with the efficacy of their fasts. They had thought that God required from them…
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Reconciliation in the Watershed
What are the issues facing your watershed? Mining? Fracking? Oil exploration? Pipeline development? Who and what else do they affect? How are they connected to other struggles in Canada and around the world? Join the KAIROS Reconciliation in the Watershed…
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No climate justice without peace, no peace without climate justice
November 17, 2023
In the last couple of years, there has been a growing recognition of the intersecting impacts of climate change, gender, conflict and economic injustice. This climate-conflict-gender nexus is a necessary lens through which peacebuilding efforts must now be considered. In…
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Women peace-builders: an investment Canada cannot afford to overlook
September 15, 2023
Investing in women peacebuilders is not just a moral and effective thing to do, it’s a good financial investment we cannot afford to overlook. The returns are vital and invaluable for all of us and for the planet. A few…
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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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A Call to Celebrate
April 5, 2023
What is it that you love about the Earth? Lush green forests, beautiful beaches, fields of wildflowers, the fact that it provides the air we breathe, the food we eat, the very substance of our existence? While every day is…
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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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#KAIROS20 gathering galvanizes network and partners
November 5, 2021
In her keynote address during We are Unstoppable, the KAIROS youth event, author and activist Helen Knott mused on the word “kairos.” “I think of it like Double Dutch with the two skipping ropes and you’re waiting for that moment to jump in – preparing for that moment…
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Note of appreciation from the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability #KAIROS20
August 13, 2021
The Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability (CNCA) was formed in 2005 in response to the widespread harms linked to Canadian mining overseas experienced by communities, workers, individuals, and organizations around the world with whom Canadian civil society has strong connections. Organizations participating in the National Roundtables…
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A new way of moving forward in this work for justice and peace #KAIROS20
July 30, 2021
Returning from a World Council of Churches meeting in Tanzania in 1974. I was transferred from Montreal to Toronto. At this time here in Toronto the churches were, for varied reasons, becoming committed in a more formal way to justice,…
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Ecological devastation of the Niger Delta by oil extraction should be a concern to the whole world
September 23, 2020
Given the onset of nearly irreversible climate change, the irony is that many areas of the Global South where people have contributed substantially less to greenhouse gas emissions are comparatively more impacted. This inequality is linked to environmental racism and…
Post filed in: Africa, Ecological Justice
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Post-pandemic Canada should centre the needs of Indigenous women
June 1, 2020
The month of June barrels towards us with an important reconciliation anniversary, a recent lack of action in support of the approaching one year anniversary for the #MMIWG calls for justice, and a worldwide pandemic raining down on what would…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage, Indigenous Rights, Op Eds
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New understanding of Indigenous history inspires MHCC staff
January 15, 2020
As twenty Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) staff members seated themselves in a circle in a small, windowless room, a sense of trepidation was in the air. While some had experience working with Indigenous communities, others were only faintly…
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Acción Ecológica releases a statement on the government of Ecuador’s recent repression
October 8, 2019
“With the rise in fuel prices – and travel fares – the government forgives the environmental crimes of the true pollutants and puts the responsibility of climate change on the people.” Acción Ecológica, KAIROS partner organization in Ecuador, has released…
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Spirited Reflection: Travelling the Amazon rainforest
September 9, 2019
Last night as I drifted to sleep… my heart hurt — I had nightmares and tossed and turned wondering how we got here. Not just in Alberta, but in the US, in Brazil, and all over the world – fascism…
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Equality and Social Justice– no better and no worse
May 14, 2019
Fortunately, I did not have to attend Residential School. Since I grew up with my parents in Toronto, I absorbed their attitudes and worldviews. In spite of a great deal of denial in my family, I have been constantly identified…
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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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MEDIA RELEASE: Two women frontline climate activists lend their voice at COP24
December 3, 2018
KAIROS-led delegation is sole Canadian church presence and will participate in new UNFCCC Gender Action Plan (Toronto, ON) – Two women climate activists representing KAIROS Canada under the accreditation of The United Church of Canada are in Katowice, Poland as…
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#HearMeToo: women-led grassroots organizations are best chance to end violence
November 19, 2018
Research by UN Women also tells us that only five per cent of international funds are allocated to programs targeting gender equality and women’s empowerment in fragile states. Canada can change this chronic underfunding by investing in the best chance for sustained peace…
Post filed in: Gender Justice/Women of Courage
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Spirited Reflection: Beholding a turtle
June 4, 2018
Sunning itself on a log near the shore of Six Mile Lake in Muskoka was a small turtle with its eyes closed. I crept up closely and gently picked up the turtle in my hand. Immediately, its little legs danced…
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