

Jesus Loves the Church - Can We?
If we want to experience the fulness of God’s love and be healed, we have to take the risk of being vulnerable, building relationships that are mutual and based on grace not compulsion.
Chris Horton
May 276 min read
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2025 Commencement Address: "A Journey of Indigenous Values and Spirituality Today"
2025 Commencement Address: "A Journey of Indigenous Values and Spirituality Today"
Steve Schallert
May 2712 min read
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Safi Kaskas - SSU's Newest Honorary Doctorate
Safi Kaskas was awarded with a Doctor of Divinity (honoris causa) at St. Stephen's University, NB Canada - 04-30-2025. Safi also received SSU's prestigious "Peace & Justice Legacy Award." Present with him were his wife, Eman, and daughter, Maha.
Steve Schallert
May 137 min read
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Guard the Image of Humanity: A contemplative approach to healing sociopolitical division
Guard the image of humanity, for it is the manifest image of God. Look for it in your neighbour. Search for it. Seek it. For it is found even in your enemy.
Dean Johnston
Apr 256 min read
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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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