"There seems to be a need in human beings to see evil and combat it outside oneself, in order not to see it inside oneself. But the struggle is inside of each person and inside each community; it is against all the powers of pride, elitism, hate and depression that are there and which hurt and crush others, and which cause division and war of all sorts. The enemy is inside, not outside."
- Jean Vanier
An older woman recently returned from her home town in North Carolina and told a friend they'd spruced up the churchyard cemetery since her last visit several years past. "Lots of new greenery," she said. "And families are together now."
"All together?" her friend asked, puzzled.
"Well," the first replied, "years ago they never much worried where they buried someone because everyone was a neighbor anyhow. They'd just dig a grave wherever it seemed to balance things. But they've redone it so people are with their children and grandchildren, instead of scattered."
The friend was still puzzled. "You mean they exhumed all those people and reburied them?"
"Oh my, no," was the reply. "We just shifted the headstones. Everyone agrees it looks ever so much nicer."
Stephen Fry says the misery of the world is not our fault. He's wrong. This message looks at how sin (and suffering) entered the world.
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"We can't expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church."
- Philip Yancey
"It's easy to love and serve a sexy church. But to love and serve a struggling one, that's another level of Christ-likeness."
- Whitney Capps
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A discussion about Truth and Reconciliation with two members of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, and a member and Chief of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation.
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