The meaning(s) of Thanksgiving
A delegation of peacemakers spends more than a week at Grassy Narrows First Nation
The Psalters: Unsanitary Allegiance
In a Christian music scene dominated by catchy tunes, poppy fluff imitating hit radio, and a cookie-cutter message of personal salvation, the Psalters are something else completely – a ragged band of misfits seeking ways out of what they call “Empire,” comparing today’s economic and political realities with Rome
With everything at stake: A year after Lebanon
The last year-and-a-half since I evacuated from the Middle East has been marked by a deep yearning to have “everything at stake” and to live in a more direct, less mediated way
Liberation is Near: Dispatches from Lebanon Besieged
My experience during the 2006 war in Lebanon gave me a better understanding of our world, and was a profound lesson
Lebanon war photo essay: ‘Tell about the children who dream dreams’
David Ball was in Lebanon when the bombs began to fall this summer. He was safely evacuated, but his life will never be the same, he writes.
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon: Community economic development
MAP-UK commissioned a series of articles and photographs of Palestinian refugees in several camps throughout Lebanon for a resource on their micro-credit loan programme
A farewell to Beirut under siege
BEIRUT – I leave a country in flames and smoke, flattened, suffering under the rumbling weight of an Israeli invasion — the country’s second in 30 years
Photo: Asbestos Reservations: Raven ThunderSky’s fight for an outright ban
Raven ThunderSky’s fight for an outright asbestos ban.
What in the world is this wanderlust?: Nitpicking the travel bug
BEIRUT, LEBANON – Every year, thousands of Canadian youth travel abroad, many of them immediately before or after college. What is it that drives us middle-class kids overseas?
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.
David P Ball 