Growing food and harvesting community
WINNIPEG – Community gardens have contributed strongly to the community, and have also begun addressing some of the brokenness that too often comes with urban poverty.
Author Archives: David P. Ball
Dumpster Diving: Garbage Spirituality
A glimpse into the rituals of modern urban hunter-gatherers
Asbestos: Raven ThunderSky’s Struggle for Justice
WINNIPEG – A Winnipeg woman says the deaths of her whole family could have been averted had the government and mining companies come clean to the public about the dangers of asbestos
Conference reflects on the value of food
Almost 15 per cent of Canadians worry thev will not have enough to eat–what Statistics Canada calls “food insecurity”
Hymn-writers on the road
For some of the modern church’s most prolific songwriters, it is on the emotional level that spiritual music affects us most deeply.
Mosaik: A Gender Perspective
The personal, political and spiritual weave in and out of my life as they do in this story, illuminating new realities, revealing pathways of action
Cookies & free condoms: The other Christians on campus
While many campus Christian groups preach salvation, many chaplaincies attract students also interested in working for social change — what used to be known in Canada as the social gospel
Homelessness: A view from the other side
VICTORIA – A growing coalition against poverty in British Columbia suggests that it is churches who must take the lead in humanizing our economic system to care for everyone
This is our struggle, says West Papuan activist
West Papuan human rights worker and Yale professor Octovianus Mote expresses his hope for Papuan independence from Indonesia.
Young people struggle with spirituality and injustice
Camping on the old wood floors, we fell asleep to the sound of wailing downtown sirens and a man in the adjacent room snorting cocaine. But this squat is a kind of sanctuary – and sanctuaries are global
David P Ball 