Bill Phipps, On the Road: Making It Happen
Channel: PIAlberta
Date: 2015-05-12

Bill Phipps
Plenary Address: "On the Road: Making It Happen"
April 11, 2015
Public Interest Alberta's annual advocacy conference, A Just and Fair Alberta 4 All, Making it Happen

Bill Phipps is the Co-founder and Chair of Faith and the Common Good network and Chair of the Calgary Peace Prize committee.  He is active in issues of Climate Change and Right Relations with First Nations. He was the Moderator (spiritual leader) of the United Church of Canada from 1997-2000 and is a former lawyer. He has been the Minister of United Church congregations in Toronto and Calgary. He learned community organizing with Saul Alinsky's organization in Chicago. He has traveled to Congo, South Sudan, East Timor, Israel, Palestine, Japan, Jordan, and all of Central America representing the United Church of Canada, focusing on human rights. Now retired and living in Calgary, he calls himself an Earth Urbanist. He is married to writer Carolyn Pogue, with children and grandchildren in Yellowknife, Winnipeg, and Toronto.