For the time being we should supply temporary funding from the Primates World Relief and Development Fund until a national response is in place. After all, we are a church in crisis, especially, the northern missions and Church House ministries. The decision to terminate these positions and relevant funding should be rescinded at once. The third danger is that in gaining public support for our appeal to the federal government, we are likely to revictimize Aboriginals. That could be the price of our success.
Lawyers are sometimes the only resort of people who have suffered desperate injustices.
Fourth, we are in danger of exalting the unexamined life. But more specifically, the chief pastors of the church, individually and collectively, must bear the brunt. If they don't, and if we continue to stick our collective head in the sand, the wrong people will continue to be afflicted. Harold Macdonald Matlock, Man. And while I did not agree with every editorial, I found them always to be honest, provocative, theologically formidable, and worthy of a serious read.