Yom Hashoah with Canadian Roots

Belle Jarniewski

Since 1953, the 27th of Nisan on the Jewish calendar, which in 2016 falls today, has been marked as a day for observing with solemn ceremony the most terrible tragedy to befall our people. 

Darkness

Melissa Payne

As the days grow darker, Melissa Payne reflects on the way darkness and cold weave themselves into the pace of our living. In darkness lies more than despair, Payne writes.

Only God Never Breathes Goodbye

Leah Perrault

In the aftermath of war’s horrors and accidental tragedy, Saskatchewan writer Leah Perrault finds warmth in the God who grieves with us.