Earlier this year I had the opportunity to visit some friends who live in Bishop Auckland, up in England’s northern counties. Troubled with widespread, endemic poverty now, the area used to be full of thriving mining communities, whose coal powered…
Last Saturday (March 10) I and several other members of Earthkeepers: Christians for Climate Justice marched with thousands of people against the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion. Led by members of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, as well as other nations from across…
A couple of Saturdays ago I got arrested. It’s not the usual behaviour expected from a white, middle-class, at times quite conservative Christian. Growing up in the evangelical church in North America, getting arrested was something that happened to Christians in…