“Churches stand up for trans kids” United churches are drawing on a long history of 2SLGBTQ+ solidarity work to continue to educate the public, provide safe spaces for queer and trans youth, and fight against policies that would do them further harm. - Broadview, Jan/Feb 2024
“It takes a village” The pandemic showed us that ending child poverty in Canada is possible. Can we take the next steps? - Broadview, March 2024
“How Prairie Mennonites took on a uranium refinery” Near Warman, Sask., in the 1970s a young philosophy student helped start a movement in that halted the project. Jonathan Dyck and I tell the story in a journalistic comic strip. – Broadview, March 2023
“Wild Church” In 2019 I travelled to a gathering in Wisconsin with a question on my mind: Could Christianity find a less dominating and more interdependent way of living with other species on this planet in peril? – Plough Quarterly, July 2021
“What the hell?” When I lost my belief in hell, my faith started to unravel. – Broadview, November 2019.
“Mennonite Pride” Our culture is fracturing along ideological lines. What can Mennonites teach us about how to disagree? – The Walrus, November 2016
“Hell and High Water” On the shifting shorelines of Bangladesh, tens of millions teeter on the brink of a climate disaster. – The United Church Observer April 2016
“A Quiet Slaughter” On the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, a Hutu from Burundi shares his story of surviving President Paul Kagame’s alleged secret war of vengeance. – Hazlitt, April 2014
“I took my wife’s last name” She said it made her feel loved. My mother was upset. – The Globe and Mail, July 2009
“An Impossible Love” In Jack Marilynne Robinson reveals the heart of a prodigal son. – Broadview, March 2021
“Climate Believers” How is the ecological crisis changing religion? And how can religious faith move people to action? – The Walrus, April 2020
“Thomas Sankara Tried to Liberate His Country from the West. Then He Was Murdered.” Thirty years after the death of a revolutionary whose brief presidency marked my childhood, I return to Burkina Faso in search of his legacy. – The Walrus, March 1, 2019
“The next pipeline battle” In Manitoba, an issue that’s been underground for half a century is coming to the surface. – The Walrus, July/August 2018
“Sucked Dry” A First Nation suffers so Winnipeg can have water. – The Walrus, March 2015
“The Way We Give” In Burkina Faso, generosity can’t always bridge cultural and economic divides. – The Walrus, December 2013
Fiction: “Rookie” A short story about desire and unforgivable offences in a tree planting camp. The Walrus, June 2020