“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 […]
The spiritual practice of making plans
A religious life has a different view of time and power. We are neither the beginning nor the end. I am not in charge of this universe. I just work here. I am responsible to act faithfully and truthfully. I am not responsible for the final outcome. – Ursula Franklin In my public-policy work, we are always […]
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