“You can hitch your wagon to the stars, but you can’t haul corn or hay in it if its wheels aren’t on the ground.” Mordecai Pinkney Horton We are excited to announce: The Self Care Project 2016 It’s been three years since a group of us launched The Self Care Project – aiming to create a space […]
Times to Gather Together
“later that night / i held an atlas in my lap / ran my fingers across the whole world / and whispered / where does it hurt? it answered / everywhere / everywhere / everywhere.” ― Warsan Shire For many people it has been a heavy-hearted fall. Punctuated by moments of joy, or relief, only to be weighed down again by the next news […]
A World on Fire
“The fireman responded to an apartment fire and found a bed on fire. They questioned the tenant as to how the fire started. “I don’t know,” he said, “it was on fire when I lay down on it.” – Robert Fulghum This spring I had the incredible opportunity of traveling to the Vatican for meetings and events […]
Young People on Faith and Climate
“Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political, or economic changes. […] Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” Martin Luther King Jr. Fossil Free Faith, a collaborative […]
The Birth of New Things
“If your success is defined as being well adjusted to injustice and well adapted to indifference, then we don’t want successful leaders. We want great leaders – who love the people enough, and respect the people enough to be unbought, unbound, unafraid, and unintimidated to tell the truth.” – Dr Cornell West Dear Friends, It […]
VIDEOS: Divestment or What? Toronto, 2014
Fletcher Harper of GreenFaith (USA) explores the rationale for faith-based divestment with a focus on historical roots for contemporary action. At the 6th Annual Green Awakening Network/Greening Sacred Spaces forum on March 1 2014. With an introduction by the David MacDonald. Should Canadian faith communities be “faithfully disruptive” and divest from the fossil fuel industry? […]
June 10th – #BoldAction: The Moral Call for Climate Justice
Watch a recording of the event here. Check out pictures from the event: Post by Spirited Social Change. ____ Tuesday, June 10th. 7-9pm. Christ Church Cathedral, 690 Burrard Street Coast Salish Territories, Vancouver Tickets (free and by donation) at: boldaction.eventbrite.ca On Facebook at: www.facebook.com/events/1397855707163546 An evening of conversations about climate change, fossil fuel divestment and the […]
Standing on the shoulders of giants
“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” – Desmond Tutu Nelson Mandela passed away over 5 months ago now. But […]
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