CRT (Critical Race Theory) – A Clarifying Primer – Steve Bynum
CRT (Critical Race Theory) has become a hot-button topic in America with the noise around it inversely proportional to the understanding of it. The volatility around "CRT in schools" is a flashpoint in the media and in school board meetings. Steve Bynum offers a brief primer on CRT for those interested in less heat and more light on the topic.
Steve has worked for nearly 30 years in news, multimedia production, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) transformation, public speaking, civic engagement, interfaith dialogue, and cultural diplomacy. He is Senior Producer with WBEZ's "Reset," WBEZ Top-5 midday talk show. Former Lead Producer of "Worldview", WBEZ's 25-year daily radio talk show dedicated to global news/affairs.
“It Is Completely Fire” – poetry by Katie Kilcup
"It is Completely Fire" Katie Kilcup Icon: Maximos the Confessor The Made Makers We are the made makers, the makers of the made. We cannot make geese or the infinite web of feathers and wind tangled in blades of light, or thickets of slight sun...
From the Lowest Pit: A Psalm from Solitary – by Neaners, with Chris Hoke
I confess I've always had trouble appreciating the Psalms. Though there's some lines that I cherish, I can get distracted by how the psalm can quickly turn into a rant--against all the enemies and evildoers, cursing them with violence sometimes, touting the...
C.S. Lewis and the Orthodox Tradition: Part IV – Ron Dart
Deification expresses human salvation as in inward process of transformation experienced within the life of the Church...
Erasmus and the Fathers – with Ron Dart and Archbishop Puhalo
C.S. Lewis and the Orthodox Tradition: Part III — Ron Dart
Again and again we have found that C.S. Lewis articulates a vision of Christian truth which a member of the Orthodox Church can whole heartedly endorse. His starting-point may be that of a Western Christian, but repeatedly his conclusions are...
God’s Book — A spiritual exercise — Murray Dueck
The Book Have you ever peeked into someone's journal when they weren't looking: Possibly hoping to find out what they secretly thought about you? What was your heart looking for? Connection, love, understanding, affirmation, intimacy...maybe all of the...
Epiphany unplugged by Henry Smidstra
Old fashioned, I still prefer to send Christmas cards by snail mail. This year again I had to run out to the dollar store, and get some more cards; I quickly chose some nice ones, of the three wise men on their camels trudging along in the desert … a card made...
C.S. Lewis and the Orthodox Tradition: Part II — by Ron Dart
For the most part, I find he (Lewis) is very close to Orthodoxy….Through this honest search, he came to many positions that the Orthodox Fathers hold as well. --Herman Middleton ROAD TO EMMAUS is a Journal of Orthodox...
“For the Peace from Above” – Metropolitan Kallistos Ware
Displaced Childhoods by Partners Relief & Development
Dear Clarion readers, Partners Relief & Development Canada and Cielo Pictures are proud to present the television debut of Displaced Childhoods airing on CTV Calgary on December 25th at 6-7pm and again on January 2nd at 5-6pm. Displaced...