Tag: Christians
Christmas Is Never Over: What Bethlehem Taught Me
This summer, Abigail received a scholarship to join a two-week-long Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (UUJME) human rights delegation to Israel and Palestine. UUJME’s mission is... Read More
“50 Years Since Nostra Aetate” with The International Council of Christians and Jews
“Jews are non-Christian in a way that other religions are not.” Meredeth Banki, speaker at the International Council of Christians and Jews, said this when speaking about her experience as part of... Read More
Justice and Love
“Few realities have determined the course of history more than the choices by which individuals, social groups, and nations have responded to aggression and hatred.”(John Rempel) “Lo... Read More
Religion Whiplash
Sometimes, I worry that going to seminary has killed the Christian in me. Take, for example, the experience of Holy Week. As a child, I remember most Easter weeks as a rush of excitement. After all, o... Read More
First Steps: A Christian’s Perspective on Ecotheology
Everyone knows about dinosaurs. I mean, dinosaurs are cool. For a species of animal that hasn’t been around several million years, they have quite the legacy. We still go to see them in museums. Kid... Read More
Idolatry and Islamophobia
Charisma magazine has taken down Gary Cass' original call for Christians to take up arms against Islam in response to public outcry, but Cass remains unrepentant. Most bad arguments don't lead to call... Read More
Becoming Aware of the Religious Other
I lead a scriptural reasoning group at the University of Toronto that has an open door policy. That means in any given week I do not know who will attend and who will not. It usually means a regular... Read More
From Tolerance to Compassion
On November 16th, it will be the International day of Tolerance, one of those UN designated days that are designed to gather global support around a cause, this one being the need to tolerate each oth... Read More