“End Abuse” Programs – Wayne Northey
Esther, my partner, and I have been hugely privileged to have been connected to the End Abuse Programs for many years: Esther since 2009. She co-facilitates groups of women in Phase Two at the MCCBC Office (33933 Gladys Avenue, Abbotsford–all Phases are for 10 weeks), and a Respectful Relationships for Survivors of Trauma Program in Fraser Valley Institution (FVI) for the same duration as above. There have been multiple contracts through MCCBC for the latter.
Together we have facilitated the Home Improvement Program for Men: 15-week sessions, two a year, since 2017.
The video below was done by University of the Fraser Valley students. We all feel it is excellent! They could not access women in the federal prison. Many have told the facilitators that it has been life-giving.
Post-U.S. Eschatology by Linus
I realized something this week; I love the U.S.A. I do waiver though. For instance, just last week I had a daydream that I was shooting roman candles at Minutemen watching the border. If pressed though, I would have to say I lean more towards the roman candles than...
Who do you say the Son of Man is? by Lane Walker
How many people ever thought about what it was like for Peter on the night Jesus was betrayed? There he was standing outside the gates warming himself by the "imperial fire" while those in power were doing what those in power do, burning someone. The big...
The Jesus People Blues: Interview with Glenn Kaiser by Lane Walker
Back 2 the Blues delivers. "I love blues because it is the most human, vocally-based music I know of. It tends to be very honest, because it "tells it like it is" rather than posing or pretending that life is "cool", nothing hurts, people...
Phyllis Munday: A BC Mountain Legend by Ron Dart
“Phyl climbed close to one hundred mountains and made over thirty first ascents, many times being the first woman to reach the summit.” —Phyllis Munday: Mountaineer (2002) p.135 When Phyllis Munday (1894-1990) left this fragile earth our island home, the first...
Noam Chomsky and Maude Barlow: Elective Affinities by Ron Dart
A few weeks ago (November 2005), 77-year-old, Noam Chomsky was voted by the British monthly Prospect and Washington-based Foreign Policy as the most important public intellectual alive today. Meanwhile, Maude Barlow, chairwoman of the Council of Canadians, received...
Touche: The essential skill of conceding a point by Brad Jersak
've been thinking about a dying art in political, theological, and educational circles. It's the ability to say "touche," the essential skill of conceding a point. In fencing, "touche" literally means "touch," used when the swordsman...
Christmas Invitation Renewed by Brad Jersak
The Message Isaiah got regarding Judah and Jerusalem: There's a day coming when the mountain of GOD's House Will be The Mountain-- solid, towering over all mountains. All nations will river toward it, people from all over set out for it. They'll say, "Come, let's...
Advent in Iraq, Rush Limbaugh, and Reality By Ryan Beiler
In August this year I began considering participation in a Christian Peacemaker Teams delegation to Iraq in November. With much prayer by friends and family, I began my discernment process, weighing the obvious risks. In Colombia I had traveled through territory...
Reflections from Gethsemani, Abbey, Kentucky: Trappist Monastery and home of beloved monk Thomas Merton. By Mike Stewart
Wednesday November 9th 4.15am 2005. Up on the hillside overlooking the Abbey, it is well before the dawn. Here I sit under the stars for a blissful two hours. In the church the monks have already began to sing to God. Gazing in to the sky the dark begins to turn into...
The Craft of Forgiveness by Wayne Northey
I. Introduction While preparing this segment, I watched with fellow congregants Babette’s Feast, winner of the Academy Award for best foreign-language film in 1987. The film is a rich kaleidoscope of themes. One is how a community of the faithful renews itself after...