RECONCILING THE SACRED

Interning at the CRCNA Centre for Public Dialogue. Working on creative projects to promote Indigenous justice.

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Can Ontario take the confrontation at Douglas Creek Estates seriously? No one, I think, denies the seriousness of the armed confrontation outside Caledonia in the Grand River valley of southern Ontario. For four years armed gunmen known as the Mohawk Warriors have occupied a ten-house real estate development on the edge of the reserve of …

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The Wounded Angel

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Thoughts: lamentation

Is a continual practice of lamentation denying the New Kingdom? Are we still mourning to the sound of John the Baptist's dirge - the last of the Old Testament prophets - instead of rejoicing in the freedom of Christ? 

Do we attribute a holiness to lamentation? 

(See Matthew 11:16-19, Luke 16:16) 

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Treat the earth well. It was given to you by your parents. It was loaned to you by your children.

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Cheryl Bear -- "Be Fearless"

Cheryl Bear Barnetson is a Regent College alumna living & working amongst the First Nations in British Columbia and around North America. Here's a bit of her...

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All this is from God, who reconciled himself to us through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation... - 2 Cor. 5:18

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Thoughts: grief

What does the grieving process look like? 

Jesus has reconciled for those who have sinned, but he also reconciled the hurt of those who were sinned against. 

To keep revisiting grief is to deny Creator's promise of reconciliation. 

So what is the balance between grieving for what has happened, and actively engaging in/accepting the gift of renewal and reconciliation that the Creator has designed?  

What does grief look like? 

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http://www.soahac.on.ca/?page=home

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http://www.kenoradailyminerandnews.com/2014/05/29/anishinabe-walker-honours-children-who-never-came-home

James Taylor is walking across Canada from his home on Vancouver Island to Ottawa in memory of the at least 6,000 aboriginal children who died while attending residential school. 

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