Life stories

Stories of ordinary people making a world of difference in their own lives and those around them.

Reconciliation sealed with a handshake
Son of globetrotting Chief Walking Buffalo, Bill, travelled the world with a message of reconciliation and healing as part of his participation in MRA (Moral Re-Armament, now known as Initiatives of Change).
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Forgiveness is the fragrance of the violet which clings fast to the heel that crushed it
Fesseha Fre Weri, a Canadian originally from Eritrea, tells of the choice he was faced with as a young man - to take up a gun or work for peace. He was speaking in Caux, Switzerland in 2003.
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Unprecedented Times
David Swann has worked in medicine in a number of countries and even tried politics for a decade here in Alberta, focusing more on the environment and how to change hearts and minds to see all of Mother Earth as sacred.
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Reconciliation sealed with a handshake