

The Beatitudes: A Responsive Prayer.
We’ve been praying the Beatitudes together as the closing benediction to our gatherings as a responsive prayer, and here is the text we use.
Marc Alan Schelske
Mar 183 min read
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Listening to My Life
Somehow, I am climbing over logical barriers, sneaking past the reasonable, and wandering into the shockingly possible.
Katie Kroeker
Feb 245 min read
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Come & See. Go & Tell.
Last week, I visited Palestine as part of Sabeel’s solidarity pilgrimage and conference. Sabeel is a Palestinian liberation theological ...
Michael McDougle
Jan 222 min read
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On Shadows, Borders, and Beauty Â
Last year, while taking SSU’s Inner Transformation of a Peacemaker course, I found a transformative exercise that really helped me
Lenée Fuelling
Nov 29, 20244 min read
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Slowing Down to See: Finding God Through the Gift of Disabilities
Learning to see my disability as an ability has not been an easy road...
Tamara Mitchell
Oct 28, 20245 min read
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SSU ALUMNI: YOU&ME
"Knowing' is a part of 'loving' rather than the other way around." ~N.T. Wright How did you come to know of SSU? As alumni, what were...
Tara Diane Boothby
Sep 25, 20244 min read
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Lingering in Liminality
Liminality is most easily observed in the transitions between nature’s seasons and it is no surprise that many cultures and religions ...
Lisa Meier
Aug 19, 20245 min read
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Of Labyrinths and Lisbon
  My point of entry into labyrinth-walking as a spiritual practice began with a monthly urban pilgrimage to sacred spaces that I facilitate
Marisa Lapish
Jul 31, 202410 min read
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Creating Safe Space and Healing Community
Through the years, I’ve had the honour of witnessing stunningly beautiful meetings with Jesus resulting in deep and lasting healing.
Susan Carson
Jun 21, 20243 min read
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Subversive Stories in a World of Violence
Desmond Tutu referred to his preaching in the face of the evil of apartheid as a ‘theological whistling’
David McCol
May 23, 20246 min read
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