Archive for Category: Journey for Justice

Join the Journey! This September

Thank you to the over 220 people that responded to the Journey for Justice survey! We’ve heard you loud and clear, and we are now ready to embark on our journey of learning together this fall. As a community, we have agreed that it is important to our faith...

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J4J Survey Results

Journey For Justice (J4J) Survey Results Survey Results in Living Colour!Are you a visual learner? See the Journey for Justice survey results presented in some easy-to-read graphs. CLICK HERE to review the visual representation of the survey results. Summary ofSurveyResults:An abbreviated summary of thesurveyresults is shown below. Results were...

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NFB Film: Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair

Online Spiritual Gatheringwith Sacred Fire and Film ScreeningTuesday May 31st, 2022@ 7:30 PM Eastern (6:30 PM Central) via Zoom Join the SW Ontario Tri-Regions for an Online spiritual gathering and screening of NFB Film: Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair. This film is newly released and includes the then Senator...

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Next Learning Opportunity: The “Doctrine of Discovery”

Join us on June 28th at 7:30 (over Zoom) when we learn together about the Doctrine of Discovery. This concept–that most of us never learned about– is foundational for “settling” North America. Register Here We want to spend our time sharing conversation so if you can, please watch these...

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I see the injustice. What can I do? [Part II]

Rob Irish June 7, 2021 The Children are Alive! And need our support While most attention this past week has been focused quite rightly on the horrific and tragic findings at Kamloops Indian Residential School, there is an abuse of children unfolding in front of us, yet we are...

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I see the injustice. What can I do? [Part I]

Rob Irish June 3, 2021 Moving at the Speed of Trust Like all of you, I was aghast at the discovery of the remains of 215 children under the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School. But, as United Church Moderator Richard Bott noted in his prayer following the...

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What We Did Not Learn in School

May30, 2021 Rob Irish On Friday, May 28th 2021, the Honourable Murray Sinclair spoke to three regions of the United Church about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the history of Residential Schools in Canada. Mr. Sinclair, who is a former senator and former Manitoba judge, chaired the...

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