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‘We can name the evil that is racism’: A conversation with Archbishop Thabo Makgoba

Matthew Puddister — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 05:00:38 +0000

The struggle against anti-Black racism is a common thread in the history of North America and South Africa. During the apartheid era, the Anglican Church of Southern Africa played a major role in supporting the movement to end the official system of racial discrimination. While apartheid officially ended three decades ago, racism continues to plague South Africa today alongside persistent economic and social inequality.

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‘I look in the mirror, I see Absalom Jones’

Matthew Puddister — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 05:00:26 +0000

Each February, the Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania celebrates the life and legacy of Absalom Jones. The first African-American to be ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church, Jones also founded the first Black Episcopal congregation, the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, and is in the Episcopal Church’s calendar of saints.

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UCC general secretary would like to see African-Canadian theology grants

Tali Folkins — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 05:00:09 +0000

The United Church of Canada’s recently named general secretary says he hopes to see the creation of an educational institution for African-Canadian theology, funded at least partly by payments of reparation for the colonization of African peoples.

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Pandemic, Advent and the church

Edmund Laldin — Mon, 21 Dec 2020 14:39:40 +0000

I started at St. Saviour’s Anglican Church, Winnipeg, in February 2015 as an interim priest and was appointed incumbent in September 2016. During the interim period and through discussion and prayerful consideration, the parish delineated “Cultivating and Nurturing a Culture of Inclusion” as an overarching theme and focus for its ministry. We evaluated the church’s […]

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Decolonization starts with me

Wayne Holst — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 16:15:19 +0000

A learning experience I had recently with a young Indigenous woman has remained with me. It centred on the term “decolonization,” and I want to share with you the progression of my thought on what that means. We were talking together in a discussion group at a social justice event and—considering myself rather enlightened about […]

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This disease has a theological term: Sin

The Rev. Steve Greene — Tue, 09 Jun 2020 14:40:49 +0000

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends–The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. You don’t have to call me the “N-word” to be racist. You simply have to “joke” that you can’t see the ashes in the form of a cross on my forehead […]

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