This belt was one way the early Iroquois people of eastern Canada preserved their way of governing and maintaining their laws.
As I Was Saying
This is The Banner's online opinion column, from a variety of different writers, published Fridays.
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When I am not sure but have to make a choice, I choose to risk erring on the side of love and inclusion.
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When I was appointed as a delegate to synod the first week of March, and I was immediately asked about it, all I could say was, "I don't know."
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Jesus is effectively declaring in Luke 24:44 that the entire Old Testament is pointing to him.
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Riding the bus home from the swimming pool several years ago, I found myself in a communication conundrum.
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St. Patrick’s effective ministry to the Celtic people can show us a path for the here and now.
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We have all been adopted into the family of God. But my experiences have given me a deeper understanding of that reality.
- June 29, 2022| |READ MORE
With Dobbs, we now have Pro-life 3.0, a movement that finds itself free to be much more politically creative and nimble, particularly as it works to support women and protect prenatal children at the state level.
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I’ve learned that true Christlike listening involves sacrificing my own agenda for an interaction and truly entering into someone else’s story with empathy and compassion.
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This cart was built and used regularly by the Métis people of the prairie provinces and early settlers in Canada for transport of goods during the early 1800s.
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Economically vulnerable people of color are significantly more anti-abortion than rich white folks are.
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The best story that has ever happened to me is the one I almost never tell.
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God can do more with this than we can see.
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Looking forward, the road is precarious. Many signs indicate we are a denomination in poor health.
- May 6, 2022| |READ MORE
As a pro-life activist my whole adult life, I never thought I’d live to see the end of Roe v. Wade, if that’s what this is.
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What do we do when the pain and struggle are ongoing, and the happy ending doesn’t appear?
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Today, when opinion is taken to be fact and fact taken as opinion, there seems to be a wide array of approaches as to how to deal with change.
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There is a well-known sculpture, called The End of the Trail, that exemplifies this theme for Native Americans and Indigenous people.
- April 15, 2022| |READ MORE
Human language—in all its variety and vitality—is a glorious reflection of our being made in the image of a God who created the world through his word, a God who is the Word.
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There was a secret message Jesus wanted to whisper into the hearts of the servants, in the back room where the jars were kept.
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I love giving advice. It’s one of my spiritual gifts, my love language, my default mode when someone has anything off-kilter in their life.
- March 25, 2022| |READ MORE
We believe the answer to this question is in understanding the cultural paradox of our faith.
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The imagery of building is not primarily intended to convey physical construction with brick and mortar; rather, building means extending the work of God in the world.
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During my 14 days in isolation, I learned four lessons from this form of suffering.