Not Another Black Life
May 31, 2020
#NotAnotherBlackLife Yes. Another and another and another… What did it feel like to be a part of that mass of thousands yesterday? […]
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Music and Magic
Apr 1, 2020
Postponed indefinitely 27 March 2020. Today I changed my profile photo on Facebook. It was past time. In the months that we’ve […]
Rev’d Dr Martin Luther King, Jr: The Unspeakable
Jan 22, 2020
MLK Day is a holiday in the United States but not here in Canada. While our neighbours to the south stage walk-a-thons […]
Escaping War, Building Peace Our year-end Appeal
Jan 1, 2020
I’ve always been amazed with the resilience of children living in war zones. I have spent time with them, from Colombia and […]
Partera 2020: What’s happening in 2020?
Dec 24, 2019
We receive many more invitations that we can respond to in any given year. Twenty twenty is no exception. In so many […]
The Sixth of December
Dec 4, 2019
Nineteen eighty-nine was an eventful year, giving rise to many 30th anniversary markings. It was a political turning point in human history. […]
2018 End of Year Letter
Jan 5, 2019
Please accept this letter as our electronic-in-lieu-of-hallmark-&-stamp Christmas letter. I had aimed for a quick one-pager with a few photographs but once […]
The Torturer and the Tortured
Mar 21, 2017
Frank Chikane was a member of the South African Council of Churches when the system known as apartheid separated out the races […]
Flipping the Calendar: Anger, Fear, Resistance
Jan 21, 2017
ANGER and FEAR at Christmas I wrote a paper once on anger. I had already been working in zones of conflict for […]
Newsletter 3.2: The Permission of our Hunger
Nov 7, 2016
A TRIBUTE To our translator, Gauri Akka: the following story would have been impossible without your skillful translation. Thank you! Now a […]