In 2017 there were 65 million people displaced in our world. That's 1 in 113 people. As we have conversations about what to do with immigration and refugees, we need to know how to have that conversation as people of faith and spirituality. We need to ask: 'What is God saying to us about this?". Turns out, God is saying something we need to hear.
Rivers of Justice: Why the Church Should Talk About Sexuality - Jillian Thompson
What's the one thing you never talk about in church? Sex. But why is that? Registered psychologist and sexual health educator, Jillian Thompson, shares the why behind why we actually should talk about sex in church: belonging.
Rivers of Justice: Truth & Reconciliation - Rev Bill Phipps
What does justice look like in our relationships with our indigenous neighbours? Rev. Phipps spoke to us about the challenge of owning the moment and stepping forward to love our neighbours by taking responsibility for the spiritual, physical, sexual, and emotional abuse residential schools have caused and listening to how we can make things right.
rivers of justice: what we should care about, part 1 - rev. nick coates
This Lent we're exploring something central to our faith and spirituality: justice.
This Sunday Rev Nick talks about why God is a God of justice and what that means for us as the church.
sandwiches & being stewards of life and love - rev. nick coates
This week we look at a story about the movement of grace: a story about the God who comes into our sickness, our brokenness, and deaths, and takes us by the hand and lifts us up out of it, bringing us back into health, back into wholeness, and back into life as it was meant to be. The question it leaves us with is 'how will you be a steward of that life and love?'
What we do with our power - Rev. Nick Coates
We all have power. Whether its our words, actions, presence, or how we spend our money, we all have the ability to influence the people and world around us. The question is: how do we use that power? Do we use it for our own benefit or do we use it for the benefit of the people and world around us?
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