October 24 Climate Day of Action - Ottawa

by Sheryl Johnson
SCM Co-Chair

On October 24, 2009, SCMers from across Canada participated in the worldwide 350 day of Action, leading up to December’s Climate Change conference happening in Copenhagen. The main event for Canada took place on Parliament Hill in Ottawa and so a few SCMers from York and the University of Toronto made the 4.5 hour trek to Ottawa for the day.

On relationship

by David Ball
General Secretary

This morning, we drove down from Asubpeeschoseewagong (Grassy Narrows First Nation) the final time of this 10-day delegation with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT).

The meaning(s) of Thanksgiving

by David Ball
SCM General Secretary

KENORA ON – “What does Thanksgiving mean in Canada?” asks Anna, a North Carolinian fellow delegate with Christian Peacemaker Teams, to the server at Ho Ho’s Chinese Restaurant in Kenora, Ontario. A moment of puzzled thought, then a shrug. “I don’t actually know. I think it just means be thankful.”

The power of persuasion (and food bribes)

by Sheryl Johnson
SCM Co-Chair

Over the first weekend in October, the SCM board met in Toronto. After a summer of jobs, rest, holidays, travel, work, and not-so ordinary schedules, the “order” of fall seemed certainly upon us as we met to discern SCM’s path this year.

The silence of falling snow

I am on my second day of a peacemaker delegation on the issue of Aboriginal Justice with Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT), and thinking a lot about my friends and my involvement in the SCM.

Fierce light

Tomorrow, I am traveling on SCM's behalf to Grassy Narrows First Nation (Asubpeeschoseewagong), with a delegation of Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT).