Checkpoints and land seizures are hurting chances of making communion.

After fifteen months of full-time service with CPT's Aboriginal Justice Team, my view of peacemaking is broadening from answering Ron Sider's 1984 challenge, embracing the cross and the Spirit of The Way and standing in front of weapons, to also challenging the church to transform violence and oppression through outreach, education, advocacy and liberating love. 

Steadfastness in approaching
prayer is spiritual discipline, 
dignity protection and
nonviolent resistance.

The Idle No More movement is
drawing all kinds of people in.  
"We are only as strong as we
find a way to stand together."

"Where is Palestine?" I asked my mother.

"You don’t know?!" she replied incredulously. "Palestine isn’t a real place. It doesn’t exist."

I don't have to comfort a crying baby awakened by an explosion.
I don't have to wake up for school the next day.
I don't have to feel this fear every night. 

Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence will
end her sacred fast, which began 11
December 2012, on Thursday morning,
24 January. 

As the First Nations-led Idle No More
movement shakes Canadian efforts
to alter the legislative landscape,
there are more areas than just one
worthy of an auditor's scrutiny.

A refreshing and gentle breeze is being felt above the plains of Iraqi Kurdistan.  It brings with it courage and enthusiasm, and the prophecy of a new generation of human relationships. It affirms the wisdom within every human spirit that all persons are equally positioned by the Great Creator.

Barrancabermeja's piano has a legend
like this: once a year, two chosen hands reach out
to sing an audience silent. Its ivory keys become the words
that form a single sentence, different for each member in the crowd.