colonialism Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/colonialism/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Tue, 07 Feb 2023 22:05:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/AJ-logo-01.svg colonialism Archives - Anglican Journal https://anglicanjournal.com/tag/colonialism/ 32 32 170042892 Mercy https://anglicanjournal.com/mercy/ https://anglicanjournal.com/mercy/#respond Tue, 01 Mar 2022 22:00:32 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=170758 This is written as we are learning of the discovery of 93 potential burial sites associated with the St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School that operated at Williams Lake First Nation, B.C., from 1886 to 1981. Many of us feel a grief painfully amplified by the gradual but noticeable disappearance of residential school grave discoveries from public consideration and conversation.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/mercy/feed/ 0 170758 ‘Racism is very bad for your health’ https://anglicanjournal.com/racism-is-very-bad-for-your-health/ https://anglicanjournal.com/racism-is-very-bad-for-your-health/#respond Wed, 02 Feb 2022 12:00:50 +0000 https://www.anglicanjournal.com/?p=170379 Psychologist Myrna Lashley shares her thoughts on the church’s historic role in propagating systemic racism as well as the role of Christians in the movement to fight it.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/racism-is-very-bad-for-your-health/feed/ 0 170558 Epiphany and our call to inner sight https://anglicanjournal.com/epiphany-and-our-call-to-inner-sight/ https://anglicanjournal.com/epiphany-and-our-call-to-inner-sight/#respond Sat, 01 Jan 2022 14:00:11 +0000 https://www.anglicanjournal.com/?p=170117 Seeing is a prominent theme in the stories and parables of Jesus. Although sometimes it is in the context of stories of the healing of physical blindness, it is also used as a metaphor for insight into truth.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/epiphany-and-our-call-to-inner-sight/feed/ 0 170117 Bishops attend grave search at Anglican school site https://anglicanjournal.com/bishops-attend-grave-search-at-anglican-school-site/ https://anglicanjournal.com/bishops-attend-grave-search-at-anglican-school-site/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2021 14:05:49 +0000 https://www.anglicanjournal.com/?p=169956 Despite its pristine location in Saskatchewan’s boreal forest on the edge of the Canadian Shield, the town of La Ronge, Sask. (population: ca 5,700) has had its share of pain—experiencing, since 2015, a suicide crisis and evacuation for wildfires.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/bishops-attend-grave-search-at-anglican-school-site/feed/ 2 169956 To find life on a day like this https://anglicanjournal.com/to-find-life-on-a-day-like-this/ https://anglicanjournal.com/to-find-life-on-a-day-like-this/#respond Mon, 01 Nov 2021 13:00:16 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=169326 For many years, I have been troubled by the inability of non-Indigenous people and institutions to receive and grasp the full reality of the pain and challenges of Indigenous life in this land. Statistics and stories are acknowledged with sympathy, but the realization of what this might mean seems completely elusive.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/to-find-life-on-a-day-like-this/feed/ 0 169326 Grieving for our children https://anglicanjournal.com/grieving-for-our-children/ https://anglicanjournal.com/grieving-for-our-children/#respond Fri, 01 Oct 2021 13:00:53 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=169097 The May discovery of the remains of 215 children who were buried on the grounds of the Kamloops Residential School, and the discovery of similar graves on the grounds of every residential school that has been examined, tears at the hearts of all of us who are working toward reconciliation.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/grieving-for-our-children/feed/ 0 169097 Two Hundred and Fifteen https://anglicanjournal.com/two-hundred-and-fifteen/ https://anglicanjournal.com/two-hundred-and-fifteen/#respond Wed, 01 Sep 2021 21:38:06 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=168962 Thoughts recorded two days after the Kamloops Residential school graves were discovered.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/two-hundred-and-fifteen/feed/ 0 168962 Facing what is before us today https://anglicanjournal.com/facing-what-is-before-us-today/ https://anglicanjournal.com/facing-what-is-before-us-today/#comments Wed, 01 Sep 2021 21:37:29 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=168939 There are many things that can be said about the involvement of the colonial churches in the residential schools. Most clearly, that involvement was not as sheep among wolves.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/facing-what-is-before-us-today/feed/ 5 168939 Identity and idolatry https://anglicanjournal.com/identity-and-idolatry/ https://anglicanjournal.com/identity-and-idolatry/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2021 05:00:51 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166996 The apostle Paul says that “enemies of blood and flesh” (Ephesians 6:12) are not our greatest challenge in life.

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]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/identity-and-idolatry/feed/ 2 166996 ‘We can name the evil that is racism’: A conversation with Archbishop Thabo Makgoba https://anglicanjournal.com/we-can-name-the-evil-that-is-racism-a-conversation-with-archbishop-thabo-makgoba/ https://anglicanjournal.com/we-can-name-the-evil-that-is-racism-a-conversation-with-archbishop-thabo-makgoba/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2021 05:00:38 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=166959 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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