Authors: Susan Lukey

“Enemy Aliens”—that is the label the Canadian government gave to my Ukrainian ancestors during World War I and to Japanese Canadians during World War II to justify confiscating their property, savings, and possessions, and confining them to internment camps. “Enemy Aliens”—two words that demonized a people, proclaiming loudly that because...

I stood in the hall of the Alcázar (royal palace) in Seville, Spain, where Christopher Columbus received the blessing of Queen Isabella to go out to search for a new route to India, with disastrous results for Indigenous peoples. As our guide explained the historical moment, I was reminded of...

I’ve had the conversation with more than one colleague. Holy Week is coming. We are preparing to preach Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday. What are we going to share? The issue isn’t that we have preached Holy Week repeatedly for several decades. It is much more complicated than...