Family brought Hope to worst of Depression

Posted on September 25, 2012 by stephen t berg / 2 Comments

A feature article on Dagmar Cunningham (1920-2012), daughter of the founders of Hope Mission. Family brought Hope to worst of Depression Edmonton Journal 22 Sep...

Health/Hope/Spirituality

Lift the Silence—The Support Network

Posted on September 14, 2012 by stephen t berg / 5 Comments

A few hundred people gathered at City Hall (Edmonton) last evening to lift the silence on suicide—an annual event put on by the Support Network. There were spee...

Art/Christianity/Hope/Poetics/Politics/Violence

National Aboriginal Day—The Elder Project

Posted on June 21, 2012 by stephen t berg / 10 Comments

On a Sunday in August, 1876, Reverend D. J. Burrell stood in front of his congregation in Chicago, not long after the battle of the Little Bighorn, and said: &q...

Christianity/Hope/Mercy/Poverty/Spirituality

In the name of Love

Posted on May 18, 2012 by stephen t berg / 10 Comments

Years ago an unimportant and diffident man was giving a tour of a homeless shelter—of which he was manager. Requests for tours were not overly frequent and they...