That’s what one of the presenters blurted out in an on-line anti-racism teach-in this week, adding her voice to all the voices that won’t be quelled these days.  “We need accomplices!” – real partners in rooting out the systems, the biases, the lies, the injustices, the entitlements that allow racism to breathe.  

Anxiety - a fluctuating state that can often overwhelm us. Consider a new way to examine it.

Thank you Suzanne Lawrence, for offering these brief video encounters inviting us to live deeply and truthfully.

June is National Indigenous History Month – a recognition and celebration of the richness of First Nations, Inuit and Métis heritage, cultures and achievements.

Our pre-service music on Sunday morning comes from the debut album, Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, by Canadian composer and tenor, Jeremy Dutcher – which involves post-classical rearrangement of his Wolastoq First Nation traditional music. Granted access to the Canadian Museum of History, Jeremy discovered wax cylinders from 1907 of his ancestors singing forgotten songs and stories that had been taken from the Wolastoqiyik Nation generations ago. The album is Jeremy’s contribution to his heritage and community in attempts to revitalize the Wolastoq language to the world, which has less than 100 speakers alive today. This collection of ground breaking post-classical arrangements is truly one of a kind and recalls the mood of Rufus Wainwright's operatic performance or the haunting pop of Anthony & The Johnsons.

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We have participated in demonstrations. Letters have been written and statements have been made. Now it is time to worship together as people of faith.

The Black Clergy Network of The United Church of Canada invites the whole church to join virtually for a time of worship, prayer, and reflection to face the issues of anti-Black racism across our country and in our church. In worship we will lament, we will hope, and we will be reminded of the need to act against racism.

This service of prayer and reflection will be led by members of the Black Clergy Network and will be livestreamed on The United Church of Canada's YouTube Channel.