KAIROS looks at shared, troubled history
Originally published in The Intelligencer on May 14, 2012, by Ken Palmer. Submitted photo Participants in the recent KAIROS-led session to better understand the plight of aboriginal people in North…
Blanket exercise plums the depth of injustice to aboriginals
This historical narrative often eludes well-meaning but sometimes uninformed “white” Christians today. Originally published in Canadian Mennonite North Battleford, Sask. on April 7, 2011 by Dick Benner. Hilda Epp, holds…
Indigenous people’s viewpoint expressed in blanket exercise
Originally published in the Burlington Post on October 21, 2010 by Nikki Wesley. A BLANKET STATEMENT: Last weekend’s blanket exercise at Tansley United Church consisted of blankets being arranged on…
Reflections on the Blanket Train
Sara Stratton Trinity St. Paul’s and Bloor Street United Churches For the last 18 months or so, the biggest part of my job with the Canadian Ecumenical Jubilee Initiative has…