Episode 5: Operationalizing Homefulness – Creating a Culture of Neighbourliness At a neighbourhood meeting, local churches are asked what they're doing about increasing homelessness in their neighbourhood. The short answer: not much. In this episode we hear from Jeanette Moss, Director of Strategy and Development for the Salsbury Community Society sharing the story of transformation from church parking lot to brave community.
Episode 4: Homelessness and Homefulness in the LGBTQ+ Community “I have heard endless stories of queer folks who tell me that when they came out, they lost their church home…and they use that language,” shares Becca Sawyer, a 2SLGBTQ+ community builder, facilitator, speaker, and future psychotherapist.
Episode 3: Housing for Homefulness – New Opportunities in Canada Housing with security, peace and dignity ought to be a fundamental right for all people everywhere. And yet, in Canada, we are far from that goal. So: where have we been, where are we now, and where might we be headed? And, what's the church's role in all of this?
Housing, Justice, and Good Governance Keesmaat and Walsh challenging the wrong kind of development, using the wrong planning tools in Kawartha Lakes.
Episode 2: Building for Indigenous Homefulness What are the most significant factors contributing to a lack of homefulness amongst Indigenous people in Canada? In this episode, we hear from the Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne, Executive Director of First United Church's Social Housing Society.
Episode 1: Home is Where the Wild Rice Is "What happens when the aspirations of home and homemaking for one people is predicated on the destruction of home for another people?" That's the question at the heart of Dr. Sylvia Keesmaat's talk in this episode.
Homefulness Podcast In the face of a systemic homelessness that has economic, social, public health, cultural, spiritual, and ecological manifestations, how might we develop more holistic and integrated policies and practices for deeper homefulness in our communities?
Genocide and Reconciliation We all knew it was true, but there was something so onerous, so disgraceful, so damning, that few wanted to use the word.
Unearthed Graves and Thrown-Down Stones: The Church, Pedicide, and Recompense. From the slaughter of the innocents to the destruction of the temple follows the same trajectory as the pedicide of Residential Schools and the burning of churches. Religion wedded to empire is always a story of violence.
Coming Home to Unacknowledged Grief Just over a year ago, Marcia, Amanda and I presented “A Sort of Homecoming” to Brian Walsh for the first time.
Genocide, Domicide and the Unnamed We know the names of the victims in London. We can know the names of the victims in Gaza. But we do not know the names of the 215.
Tackling the Housing Crisis (Pt 6) What are some success stories of the Church taking action on housing and homelessness?
Tackling the Housing Crisis (Pt 5) How does the Church bring theologically grounded principles into conversation in a pluralistic society?
Tackling the Housing Crisis (Pt 4) Does a theology of housing require an eschatology of new creation?