Turning politics and religion right side up

Canada has received a great spiritual gift from its Indigenous people. Despite racism and intolerance, Canada can become what David Pfrimmer describes as a meeting place where there is 'greater freedom to be more provocative and prophetic in its justice seeking, peace building and ecological initiatives.'
He had a dream: Martin Luther King Jr., pictured at the 1963 Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C.
OTTAWA—Since the late 1980s, the emergence of the religious right in the United States, as a cultural crutch for the Republican Party, has been a cause for dismay among religious people who once saw the churches unite around Martin Luther King Jr. during the birth of the civil rights movement. In...

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