At the 2025 National Convention of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, Boston and Lyndon had the chance to speak briefly with Bishop-elect Imad Haddad of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land. Rev. Dr. Imad talks about his life as a Palestinian Christian and misconceptions of what that actually means. He also speaks about what people can do to support Palestinians, and distinguishing religious and political conflicts.

Rev. Dr. Imad, and the ELCJHL, can be found on instagram @elcjhl

We talk with Wayne Turner, self-described disciples of Hannah Arendt. Arendt is a giant in political and moral philosophy in the 20th Century. Someone whose identity as a refugee stayed with her. She continued working and writing as a kind of refugee within academia her whole life. She eschewed hierarchical roles and titles, preferring to stay closer to her origins of having to begin again. Wayne gives us an overview of Arednt’s sense of natality - as humans we are the ones who are given a beginning. We are born into the world. And we have the freedom to begin again, with creative projects, with worlds that overlap and intersect. And we inhabit worlds through plurality - the voices and perspectives of others that enrich us all. Arendt’s sense of purpose differs from that of world alienation, ways in which we degrade creation, the natural world, and each other through technical ways of knowing that kill, rather than sustain life. Join us as we think through some of Arendt’s understanding of being human in a time in which asking reflective questions is eschewed in the political realm. Wayne lives in Saskatoon and is a former union organizer and community academic.

Lyndon sits down with David Barrow, who is the regional director of the Industrial Areas Foundation Pacific and he was in town from Australia mentoring and supporting the organizer and leaders of Greater Victoria Acting Together, a coalition of faith groups, community organizations and unions working together for the common good, on issues like housing and climate resilience - through a process called "community organizing", David is a story teller, unionist, member of the queer community and in leadership in the Uniting Church in Australia. David talks community organizing and being a community forward church in these times.