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Moderator Mardi’s Blog: Are we there yet?
Today marks the 25th anniversary of the first apology offered to Canada’s First Peoples by The United Church of Canada. No, we’re not “there yet” because we’re still on the long journey toward seeing...
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Moderator Mardi’s Blog: Floods and fires, winds and rain
I have lost track of the number of pastoral calls, notes, and letters on top of visits made on your behalf as the people of The United Church of Canada to those affected by so-called natural disasters...
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Moderator Mardi’s Blog: Changing the climate with prayer and action
Over the past several days I have been in Ottawa speaking with other faith leaders and political leaders about the moral and spiritual challenge of climate change. On Sunday evening I participated in...
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Moderator Mardi’s Blog: Changing the climate is gaining momentum
As I prepare to join faith leaders from around the world at the United Nations climate change conference in South Africa (COP17), I am watching the cascading effect of our Canadian faith leaders’...
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Moderator Mardi’s Blog: The road to Durban—what Love requires
This morning as I finish packing for Durban, South Africa, where the United Nations climate talks will take place over the next two weeks, I’m cherishing the encouraging words in a message from one of...
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Moderator Mardi’s Blog: “Here we are” at Christmas
When the angel Gabriel told Mary that she would bear the Son of God, “For nothing will be impossible with God,” Mary answered, “Here I am, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your...
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Moderator Mardi’s Blog: God of Yellowknife
Some of you have wondered about where I’ve been. Not only where my travels have taken me but how far I’ve wandered from blogging, facebook and twitter. Since mid-January I haven’t been as active as...
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Moderator Mardi’s Blog: Seeds of reckless love
Our worship this year has been framed by a Good Friday that fell on Earth Day last year and a Sunday in Easter that will fall on Earth Day this year. (I wrote about this in the Toronto Star on Good...
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Moderator Mardi’d Blog: Ripples from Earth Day Webcast
Since our highly successful live, interactive Earth Day webcast on Sunday, there have been lots of enthusiastic additional comments and ripples that I’m just catching up on this morning. (At the end of...
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Moderator Mardi’s Blog: Anniversary of Canada’s Apology and Re-Righting History
Monday marked the fourth anniversary of when our prime minister offered Canada’s apology to residential school survivors. It was a moving and dramatic moment, and a new journey as a nation became...
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