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At the intersection of Sacred and Profane

2021/07/04

Oh, Canada

Our faith community celebrates Canada Day on the Sunday closest to July 1, which was today. This has been a very difficult Canada Day season for many, for everyone I know. The continuing revelations of unmarked or mass graves attached to residential schools has been a traumatic and painful reminder of the scandal of a […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year B / Canada, Canadians, every child matters, greatness, Indigenous Peoples, preaching, treaties Leave a Comment

2016/06/19

Stop with the categories

It is virtually impossible for us, as humans, to keep from putting people and things into categories. Categorization isn’t bad or evil, it is just a thing that we all do. I have read that one of the actions that we do best is pattern recognition, which is all about categories. We put what we […]

Article by Barry / Pentecost, Preaching, Sunday, Year C / categories, category, First Nations, Indigenous Peoples, pattern recognition, preaching Leave a Comment

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