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Moderator Mardi Tindal's blog: By the rivers of Babylon

When we realize we need God’s healing, we’re more open to feel the touch of the Holy. That’s true not only in our personal lives but also in the life of our church. At this time in our church, we are aware of our need for healing.



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Moderator Mardi Tindal's blog: Balloons and believers

“Do you have any balloons?” asked the little boy, looking directly at me. The women beside me would have looked far more familiar to him. Each was wearing a hijab as we chatted beside a display table at an Eid celebration last Friday. My head was uncovered and I was wearing my big beaded cross necklace.



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Moderator Mardi Tindal's blog: Vacation

 

As I begin vacation, I give thanks for an extraordinary year of blessing and privilege. Last week I returned to wisdom that the Children of the 40th General Council offered the Moderator. These precious words are held in my treasured "General Council Investigators Agency Intelligence Manual," as presented to me at my installation.

 

These agents offered great advice for all of us who are taking time for rest and reflection in preparation for another busy year:



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What's in a preposition? A church "of" Canada or "in" Canada?

I’ll never forget the summer I worked at a Mennonite camp—Fraser Lake Camp—near Bancroft, Ontario.


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Moderator Mardi Tindal's blog: Dinner with the Queen

I promised you a blog about dinner with the Queen, and am indebted to a new friend, the Moderator of The Presbyterian Church in Canada, the Rev. Dr. Herb Gale, who will help me enormously with this account. Herb paints a great picture of the evening we shared with her Majesty at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto on July 5th. There’s no need for me to try to do any better than Herb has done with details of the evening.



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Moderator Mardi Tindal's blog: Canada's healing

How does The United Church “of Canada” contribute to the health and healing of Canada?



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Moderator Mardi Tindal's blog: More on the TRC—for our children and grandchildren

It’s been about a week since the end of the first national gathering of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Since then I’ve enjoyed joining the More Franchises: A Second Cup event where, among other things, I interacted with those “tweeting” in response to my sermon during the preaching time.



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Moderator Mardi Tindal: What would Nellie do?

Back in Winnipeg for the 2010 World Religious Leaders’ G8 Summit, I’m reminded of Nellie McClung. As Doug Martindale welcomed us here on behalf of the government of Manitoba, he told us about a new statue of Nellie that was just unveiled last week at the legislative buildings.



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Moderator Mardi Tindal's blog: Teacher-student friendships

Wednesday’s Sharing Circle at the TRC (see earlier blog) also invited a former teacher to give voice to her difficult experience in a school in Saskatchewan. She arrived as a new, young teacher eager and ready for her vocation. Then she saw the dreadful basement room in which she and her students were expected to spend their days.



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Moderator Mardi Tindal's blog: Bearing witness face to face

Bearing witness to truth is a first step toward healing and reconciliation. Facing one another as we speak truth holds the promise that we might truly listen to the depth of our own truth and the depth of others’ truth, that we might hear the cry of our own souls and the cry of others’ souls.

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