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Rest as Resistance: How Stillness Can Defy Fear and Darkness

By Amy Knorr

On that first solo-driving day, as my daughter backed out of the garage and onto the road with a smile and a little wave, I swear I saw the gossamer shape of a 5-year-old, hands clenched on the handlebars of a tiny bike, pedaling shakily down the street with that familiar left-right wobble of a new rider.

How First Nations Theology Heals My Understanding of the Resurrection

By Mark Glanville

Encountering painful truths
A group from our church visited the abandoned building of a former First Nations residential school. St. Mary’s, as it was called, operated in Mission, British Columbia. We sat in a listening circle to receive the memories, pain, and reflections of two elderly women—one who grew up at that school and another who attended a different residential school nearby.