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“What About Rape?” Gender, Violence, and Policing
“They have treated the wound of my people carelessly, saying, ‘Peace, peace’, when there is no peace.”[1] There has been a significant shift in the public conversation around policing in the last few weeks. Calls for dramatic reforms, defunding, and… Continue reading
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Be Troubled (by the Spirit)!
We are troubled, and we live in troubled times, and maybe that trouble is the Spirit, moving, shaking, wandering, cracking open our illusions and prejudices, exposing our insides so that new life can burst forth. Continue reading
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Renovating Tradition: Insights from Dorothee Soelle (Part One)
Soelle’s feminism simultaneously takes seriously the patriarchal history of Christianity and remains committed to the search for the liberative heart of the Gospel. Continue reading
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Learning from History: What Can We Do Without the Eucharist?
One of the historical examples that we can look to during this time is the community around the nuns at Port-Royal in seventeenth-century France. Continue reading
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Breaking Bread, Breaking Rules
A few months back, before the coronavirus pandemic, I had the privilege of serving communion to my church community. In our practice, congregants gather at the front of the church and kneel to receive the Eucharistic elements. Individuals, couples, friends,… Continue reading
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Rights, Freedoms, and Neighbour-Love
It is probably not surprising that a pandemic brings out both the best and the worst in us. In recent weeks, we have been moved by the courage of frontline workers, the kindness of strangers, and the patience of large… Continue reading
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A Perspective of Christianity on Civil Disobedience: A Study of Hong Kong’s Occupy Central and the Umbrella Movement
Some Christians, due to their faith convictions and civic duty, have taken part by engaging in nonviolent protests. How do Hong Kong Christians reconcile their faith with the civic actions going on around them? And how can we learn from… Continue reading
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What is Now Uncovered / Don’t Waste an Apocalypse
The increased precarity of living in a pandemic makes the existing precarity in which so many were already living their lives completely untenable. In this sense the pandemic is a true apocalypse—an uncovering of the truth of the forces at… Continue reading
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A Brief Reflection on Easter Flowers
Last night, my friend showed me a picture of a beautiful daffodil (see above) and pointed me to a hymn, “Now the Green Blade Rises.” It reminded me of a story, a story that feels Easter-appropriate. My mother tells me… Continue reading
