Too Young?
Deacons are normally known to be older and more experienced people in life. You won’t think of, nor even associate a 22 year old journalism student who is still trying to figure out what to do in life with the position of a deacon. I was asked to think about taking the position earlier this…
Visualizing Restorative Justice (Part Two): An Infographic
While brainstorming for my next post on restorative justice, I ended up taking some time to create this infographic based on an appendix in Howard Zehr’s The Little Book of Restorative Justice. Take some time to look through it, and feel free to print it off. I think that this list provides some excellent reminders on…
The Freedom Climb: Getting Uncomfortable for God’s Precious Children
In July 2014 I had the privilege of travelling to Colorado from my home province of Saskatchewan. There I joined about 70 other women, from 6 different countries, for “The Freedom Climb”! We summited 7 mountains, each of them over 14,000 feet elevation, in 4 days. We were dizzy from the altitude, with aching muscles…
Visualizing Restorative Justice (Part One): Tapestries, Spider-webs, and Doilies
“Restorative justice” is a phrase that sounds very nice. It likely conjures up images of people smiling, of sunlight pouring through windows, of trees swaying in the wind—the stuff of daydreams. On the other hand, some might think of courtrooms, prisons, prisoners, lawyers and judges. Yet still others might think of “talking circles”, victim-offender conferences,…
Responding to God’s Call to “Do Justice”
“I was listening to the Lord and to my heart.” This is how the Safe Room along the Highway of Tears came about. A simple tugging on the heart and, as Bart Plugboer would testify, when you listen, God will use that to do good. Bart Plugboer is the Diaconal Coach (formerly called Diaconal Ministry…
Reverse Mentoring: A New Learning Curve
“The church needs young blood in its veins. Our strength for holding the faith may lie in experienced saints but our zeal for propagating it must be found in the young.” Charles Spurgeon These words by British preacher Charles Spurgeon were written over 150 years ago but communicate a clear vision for young and old…
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