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52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing
Week 7 - Check Your Idioms
(from Robertson, David A. 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing)
This week, Robertson invites us to pay closer attention to the everyday language we use. Many common idioms are so familiar that we rarely stop to think about where they come from or how they might be received….
52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing
Week 6
Write a Land Acknowledgement
from Robertson, David A. 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing…
52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing
Week 5-Research Indigenous Place Names
from Robertson, David A. 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing
In this chapter, Robertson invites us to notice the places we move through every day, especially the rivers and lakes that shape our communities and our sense of home. He begins with the Assiniboine River in Winnipeg, describing how it is woven into daily life, from kayaking in the summer to neighbourhood hockey games in the winter. It is easy to enjoy these places, he suggests, without ever stopping to think about where their names come from….
Reflections by Rev. Joanne Anquist
Week 4
Learn the Difference Between Cultural Appropriation and Cultural Appreciation from Robertson, David A.. 52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing….
Reflections by Rev. Joanne Anquist
52 Ways to Reconcile: How to Walk with Indigenous Peoples on the Path to Healing by David A. Robertson
Week 3: Engage with Indigenous Social Media….
Reflections by Rev. Joanne Anquist
This year we will be reviewing the book 52 Ways to Reconcile by David A. Robertson. According to his bio,
DAVID A. ROBERTSON is a two-time winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award, and has won the TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award and the Writers’ Union of Canada Freedom to Read Award….
Ministers’ Message
This year, as we turn toward Christmas Eve, I find myself returning to the closing scene of Dickens’ story. After all the visitations, after the long night that confronted his life from every angle, Scrooge awakens to Christmas morning with joy that surprises even him. He laughs. He dances. He calls out the window as though the world has suddenly opened….
Ministers’ Message
The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is often remembered as the darkest of Scrooge’s visitors, yet I’ve always believed its purpose is far more hopeful than frightening. I have watched this ghost send my own children scurrying out of the room during different cartoon versions of the story, or covering their faces with blankets until the scene passed….
Ministers’ Message
There is something remarkable about the Ghost of Christmas Present. This spirit brings Scrooge into the world he already lives in, yet has not truly seen. The rooms are familiar. The faces are familiar.
Ministers’ Message
One of the truths at the heart of Scrooge’s journey is that each of us is shaped by the life we have lived so far. We carry the imprint of our joys and our sorrows. We carry the tenderness that was offered to us, and the hurts that were never fully mended.
Ministers’ Message
“Marley was dead, to begin with.”
As far back as I can remember, I have always been captured by the image of Marley’s chains. Dickens describes them in such an ordinary way: cash boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel….
Trans Day of Remembrance
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance: a day when we at McDougall United Church reflect on every trans life taken too soon.
We remember the names we know personally, the names held in the hearts of our extended family of faith around the world, and the countless names we never hear.
Our hearts break at the ongoing violence, rejection, and fear that continue to shape the lives of trans people and all members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community.
Reflections by Rev. Joanne Anquist
Tuesday September 30th is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Because of our commitment to Right Relations and the United Church’s history with Residential Schools, our offices at both sites will be closed on that day to give an opportunity to reflect on this history and how we can live into right relations.
Reflections by Rev. Joanne Anquist
This past week, September 9th, I celebrated 10 years at McDougall United. I came there first as pulpit supply, and then was called after my ordination. Becoming an ordained minister was the last step in my ministry for the church. When I look back on my 30 years of ministry, not just as an ordained minister, but the time I spent as a worship animator, and a youth leader, I am grateful for the relationships that have formed, and the ways I have seen God at work amongst the people….
Reflections by Rev. Joanne Anquist
Summer is almost gone. Funny thing is, most of the summer was rainy so in some ways it feels like summer has just begun!
I hope you had a chance to relax and rejuvenate and that you are ready to re-enter Churchland as we begin our fall programming. …
Reflections by Rev. Joanne Anquist
This coming week I’m heading to Newfoundland to the 100th Anniversary Celebration service of the United Church of Canada to be held at Gower St. United Church in St. John’s. I am able to attend this service because I am the Presiding Officer of the Chinook Winds Region – probably the only perk that role has!….
Reflections by Rev. Joanne Anquist
Easter is actually a season lasting 50 days, right up to Pentecost which this year falls on June 8th. Whereas Lent is a time for introspection, Easter is a time for celebration. Christ is Risen indeed!….
Reflections by Rev. Joanne Anquist
This article is published on Maundy Thursday. This is the day when Holy Week begins in earnest. Today we commemorate the last supper – the meal Jesus shared with his disciples that is the foundation for our communion services….
Easter Reflection by Rev. Bill Weaver
By the time Mary Magdalene makes it to the tomb in John’s Gospel, it’s still dark.
Which feels about right…..
Reflections by Rev. Joanne Anquist
This coming Sunday is Palm Sunday – the day Jesus rode into Jerusalem and was greated with a parade. All four gospels have an account of this ride into Jerusalem but each of them is a little different….