Please join Emmanuel College’s Centre for Religion and Its Contexts, Trinity-St Paul's United Church and Centre for Faith, Justice and the Arts, the Centre for Philosophy, Religion and Social Ethics of The Institute for Christian Studies and Broadview Magazine for the third edition of the Christian Left Conference (August 5-6). It's ONLINE and FREE! This year's theme is "Creation, Land, and Indigeneity: Resistance on Turtle Island and Beyond." Our featured keynote speakers are Dan Longboat...
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Join us for the launch of David Kim-Cragg's book, Water from Dragon's Well: The History of a Korean-Canadian Church Relationship (2022, McGill-Queen's University Press), on Monday, October 3 at 7 p.m. EDT. The launch is online and free. Kim-Cragg Emm 9T9 is both a sessional lecturer at Emmanuel College and minister at St. Matthew's United Church in Richmond Hill. Kim-Cragg will be joined by Phyllis D. Airhart (professor emerita, Emmanuel College), Dr. Keith Carlson (Tier 1 Canada Research...
A virtual talk with Afghan-Canadian activist Farkhunda Muhtaj who will share how she helped rescue more than 300 Afghan girl soccer players. http://www.auraforrefugees.org/index.php/get-involved/current-events/world-refugee-day-2022
This program examines the issues of digital citizenship in an age of online hate. Participants will be sensitized to the state of online hate through the Wiesenthal Center's searchable database and discuss some of the challenges young people face on popular digital platforms. Participants will also learn about some of the common symbols and codes used by extremists online, and look at the ways in which anti-Asian, anti-Black and anti-Semitic content has been spread online recently....
Wednesday, May 25, 7:00pm–9:00 pm on Zoom. Fairlawn Avenue United Church is hosting overdose prevention experts from Street Health, one of Fairlawn’s Embrace Action partners, who will educate us about the crisis and what we can do about it. During the provincial election campaign, ask what candidates will do, such as: expand efforts to address the crisis, reconvene the Opioid Emergency Task Force and support decriminalization of possession of personal quantities of drugs. Registration is...