Updating one’s theology?
Years ago I, for some unknown reason, participated in the Good Friday Walk in Toronto, Canada. It deepened my faith, and enriched my life. Here’s a commentary on this year’s opportunity to ACT theologically.
We know Pharaoh is always with us, so in that realization a small group of Catholic teachers (Teachers for Social Justice) began this ongoing tradition in 1979. It quickly became ecumenical and is a welcome antidote to the privatized spirituality in evidence today. The original crucifixion was a publi event and it placed in sharp contrast the values of empire andf social justice.Crucifixion today is organized globally by corporate worldview which continues to place too many people on the margins of life. Christians today must be in the vanguard of taking people off history’s manifold crosses.
Marginalized Youth, Idle No More and the Sanctuary Movement to protect vulnerable refugee claimants will be the focus of ‘stations’ for the Ecumenical Good Friday Walk for Justice March 29. The annual event begins at 2 p.m. at the Church of the Holy Trinity, beside the Eaton Centre.
These three themes reflect issues of which the…
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