I have a confession: I am really bad at making predictions about the future. After discussing current events with my high school students, one will often ask, “Mr. Boone, what do you think will happen?” I always take the bait and then face my students’ teasing when I inevitably get it wrong. Some of my…
“Creator’s blessing rests on the ones who are hunted down and mistreated for doing what is right, for they are walking the good road from above.” Can you recognize one of the Beatitudes in that sentence? It’s Matthew 5:10 in The First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament, a dynamic equivalence translation….
December 15, 2021 was the sixth anniversary of the release of the complete findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). I remember sitting in a conference hall in Ottawa on that release day in 2015. I was moved by the prayers of Elders, the presence of Survivors and the profound speeches of the Commissioners…
Lucy Thomas, the fourth generation of residential school survivors in her family, was five years old when she was taken away from her mother and brought to Kuper Island Residential School in British Columbia. The students called it Alcatraz. While at Kuper Island, Lucy and her siblings were punished if they were seen talking to…
I recently heard a story of a Jewish student who went to his rabbi and asked, “Why does the Torah say to write God’s word on our hearts? Why does it not say to write God’s word in our hearts?” The rabbi replied, “Because God knows that our hearts are closed, so we lay the…
Canadians are debating how and whether to reflect on Sept. 30 – the day set aside for Truth and Reconciliation. The day that honours residential school survivors. Past and present. Wish I could partake in that debate . . . not be living it. I am a residential school survivor. I attended a Presbyterian-run school…
In the fall of 2006, I was appointed as the first Healing and Reconciliation program Animator for The Presbyterian Church in Canada. I was baptized Presbyterian at St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church in Ottawa and am a member of the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation. I am of mixed Indigenous and European heritage, and have lived…
Closed borders and travel bans have brought travel and tourism to a halt over the last year. Thomas King’s latest novel offers the reader a vicarious vacation told through the travels of Bird and Mimi, a middle-class Indigenous couple from Guelph, Ontario. They are in Prague on vacation. This trip is one many they undertake…
At the CRC Canadian Indigenous Ministry Committee we mark all kinds of remembrances. August 17th is the anniversary of the discovery of Tina Fontaine’s body. October 23rd is the date Chanie Wenjack died running away from a residential school. May 5th is the National Day of Awareness for Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women and Girls. …
Our collective shock at the recent grim discovery of 215 children’s bodies at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, B.C., means one thing: that we didn’t listen. Indigenous people have been trying to tell Canadians for years about residential school system tragedies; to our shame, we have not really heard or understood….
Hearts Exchanged is being piloted as a process of equipping Reformed Christians to engage with Indigenous peoples as neighbours in a way that grows trust and transformation. Hearts Exchanged came to germination after being planted at a Cross-Cultural Ministry Forum of the Christian Reformed Church in North America way back in 2000. The report from…
“Canadians love causes,” Stó:lō First Nations poet and author Lee Maracle says, “but they love the causes that are far away – out of their backyard, so to speak.” That indictment comes from her book My Conversations with Canadians, which details observations born from discussions with people across the country. Though her book was published…
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