L’Arche Tova Café provides Winnipeg’s Transcona community with wholesome food and warm, welcoming service – while giving meaningful employment to people with intellectual disabilities. As both staff and customers will tell you, it’s a classic example of a beautiful “win-win”. Continue reading
Imagine setting aside a week to engage in learning, conversation and action with people from all the major faith traditions. Carmen Li recently had the fascinating opportunity to do just that – and she shares her eventful, evocative and eye-opening daily journal. Continue reading
Pakistani American author and interfaith activist Saadia Faruqi writes a stirring account of how her mosque in Houston, Texas is using Ramadan iftars (breaking of the fast at sunset) as an opportunity to bring people from many faith traditions together. It’s a hope-filled story of new friends talking, eating, learning and growing together. Continue reading
The Humanities 101 program at St. Mary’s University brings free, university level courses to adults who experience mental and physical health challenges, poverty, and addictions. It also brings hope for a better tomorrow. Continue reading
Doris Fleck candidly reveals the confusion, suffering and grace that have accompanied her on her journey with CFS, as she strives to bring awareness about a disease that is still shrouded in misunderstanding. Continue reading
When anger is awakened, what’s the next step? Meet an Anglican priest who can’t shake a calling to help change society…by running for political office. Continue reading
God has a habit of weaving His light into ordinary encounters, as this prize-winning tale by author and pastor James Webb affirms. Continue reading
Longtime Sesame Street writer Emily Perl Kinsley, whose son Jason has Down Syndrome, once wrote that raising a child with special needs can seem like planning a trip to Italy, and then finding out that you’re headed for Holland. But after you’ve been there awhile, you begin to notice that “Holland has windmills, and tulips…and even Rembrandts.” Continue reading
Heartbreaking early years, residential school, alcoholism and a prison term give way to peace and a firm hope for the future, in this first-person story of a First Nations life. Continue reading
Imagine Art is an art studio with a heart for the disenfranchised, providing a space where artists with mental and physical disabilities can learn, create and flourish. Continue reading
