#reconciliation — Public Fediverse posts

#reconciliation : the act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled

- German: die Versöhnung

- Italian: riconciliazione

- Portuguese: reconciliação

- Spanish: reconciliación

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Retired academics, lawyers and writers in Canada, backed by conservative organizations, collaborate to produce a more positive version of the country's residential school history and create doubt about the harms caused by residential schools.

#indigenous #reconciliation #firstnations #residentialschools #truthandreconciliation

https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/05/08/Who-Behind-Residential-School-Denialism/

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“The relationship is ever evolving. I'll put it that way. Are we at a point right now where everything is rosy peachy keen? No. There's still a lot that needs to be worked through.”

#Indigenous #economy #reconciliation #industry #partnerships #podcast

https://www.windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/new-podcast-creator-wants-advance-unique-discussion-industry-and-indigenous

Legal experts say the Quw’utsun Nation land decision doesn't affect private property rights, but that fear, constantly cultivated by politicians seeking more votes, has an effect. If the government of British Columbia repeals DRIPA, it will hinder reconciliation, replacing negotiation with litigation.

#DRIPA #Indigenous #reconciliation

https://angusreid.org/bc-ndp-eby-conservatives-dripa-undrip-reconciliation-property-rights-land-title/

…The #legislation would be included in the Senate’s planned budget reconciliation bill, which can be enacted with a simple majority, bypassing any potential filibuster & eliminating the need for #Republicans to court #Democrats’ votes.

Before it advances, the parliamentarian will review the #WhiteHouse security proposal to ensure it complies with rules limiting what can be included in #reconciliation bills. Only provisions related to spending or generating revenue can be included.

#law #Trump

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#israel #palestine : #gaza / #massacre / #genocide / #civilianwarvictims / #family / #literature / #peace

„The Oct. 7 terrorist attack in Israel, and the war in Gaza that followed, have left countless families grappling with profound loss. Two men, one Israeli, the other Palestinian, tell the story of their unexpected journey toward understanding and #reconciliation in a new book, “The Future is Peace.” Ali Rogin speaks with them to learn more.“

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/palestinian-and-israeli-writers-reflect-on-bridging-divides-in-the-future-is-peace

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I think of you often ()

Whether my letters can really be a help, well, I have my doubts.

Do not say: Yes, they are. Just let them sink in and without any particular sense of gratitude, and let’s wait and see what will come of it. ()

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)

Furuborg, Jonsered, Sweden, 4. November, 1904

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() Rome (if one is not yet acquainted with it) seems oppressively sad when one first arrives: the lifeless and drear museum atmosphere it breathes, the abundance of fragments of the past (on which a tiny presence nourishes itself). ()

Vestiges of another age ()

Not your own and () not meant to be. ()

All these objects which generation after generation have continued to admire () they () have no heart and no value;

But there is great deal of beauty here, because there is beauty everywhere.

Infinitely lively waters go over the old aqueducts into the city and on the many squares dance over bowls of white stone and fill () basins and murmur all day

And raise their murmur into the night ()

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Giving birth to step after () step () wave after wave ()

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)

Rome, 29 October 1903

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Your letter of 29 August reached me in Florence, and only now - two months on - do I give you news of it.

Forgive me this delay, but I prefer not to write letters when I’m traveling because letter-writing requires of me more than just the basic wherewithal:

Some quiet and time of my own and a moment when I feel relatively at home.

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 –1926)

Rome, 29 October 1903

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#israel #palestine #gaza #westbank #opt #war #violence #family #nonviolence #reconciliation #cfp #pcff

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https://overton-magazin.de/top-story/gedenken-und-anti-gedenken/

A B.C. court decision known as the Nicholas ruling gave Ottawa until the end of April 2026 to make changes to restore status to the descendants of enfranchised First Nations peoples. But the Senate made changes to S-2 that would end the second-generation cutoff.

https://www.ipolitics.ca/2026/04/24/government-secures-brief-extension-court-imposed-deadline-indian-act/

#Indigenous #reconciliation #Canada #BillS2

#israel #palestine : #gaza / #westbank / #opt / #war / #violence / #family / #nonviolence / #reconciliation / #cfp / #pcff

„On Monday evening, we held the 2026 Israeli–Palestinian Joint Memorial Ceremony, together with the Parents Circle – Families Forum. It was a deeply moving, profoundly inspirational ceremony, filled with grief, strength, and hope. (...)
Below is a recording of the ceremony. Please watch and share it with all those who need to hear our message.”

https://www.youtube.com/live/yTKIiu_pvPY

There are more than 830,000 First Nations people in Canada registered as having “Indian Status” according to the most recent Census data. But what is it and what does it mean for the people that have it?
We’ve seen many claims online about how First Nations people get tax exemptions, free housing, free education and more. APTN News: Answers looks into Indian Status and the reality of these so-called “free” aspects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTS79DQbS7g

#Indigenous #reconciliation #IndianAct #Canada

#ThoughtProvoker :blobhyperthink:

> "Progressive #people often divide themselves, to be conquered."

Said a couple times, witnessing what - in similar context offline - would be a minor issue and quick #reconciliation, lead to broken #relationships and silencing.

We sadly live in a day and age where dark forces gathered around the globe. As no day before in our lifetime its vital to stand #strong and #united in the face of evil.

#Progressive space is singled out by the enemy as a danger to them. It's not at all unthinkable, even likely that state actors closely surveil our #fedi #environment, looking for ways to weaken us.

We spread #activism here, forge #grassroots #bonds, lend supporting shoulders, take #care for each other. Build #resistance. ✊

Yet so easily we fight amongst ourselves: we block, we suspend, we ignore. Based on minute nuances of #progressive approach. Understandable. Our #moderation tools are but poor, our #culture fragile.

Let #Harmony be the tip of our spear!

#israel #palestine: #peacemovement / #reconciliation / #nonviolence / #pcff / #nobelpricenomination

»‘The decision of Palestinian and Israeli bereaved families to work together for reconciliation is a courageous and extraordinary choice. Our choice to meet, to listen, and to build bridges of humanity and mutual understanding sends an important message to the international community.’«

https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/palestinian-and-israeli-bereaved-families-reconciliation-work-recognised-by-nobel-nomination/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iwritelike/116393843658018750

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Which word would you use to refer to yourself? "I", presumably, in the singular. And how about you and a group of people? "We", of course, in the plural.

But how about you and one other person?

In modern English, there is no word for that. You would probably just use "we" or "the two of us".

But more than 1,000 years ago, you would have said: "wit".

This term, once also used affectionately to describe the closeness between two people, is one of many personal pronouns that have been lost or transformed amid huge social and political change over the centuries. The English language has become simplified – but at times this has left gaps, creating confusion.

"Wit" means "we two" in Old English, a Germanic language spoken in England until about the 12th Century, which evolved into the English we speak today. Now completely lost, "wit" was part of an extinct group of pronouns used for exactly two people: the dual form, which also includes "uncer" or "unker" ("our" for two people) and "git" ("you two"). That dual form vanished from the English language around the 13th Century.

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The Hemorrh Age

We live now
in the Hemorrh Age,

not the age of honest wounds
tended by trembling hands,
not the age of scars
that speak of healing,
but the age of the open vein,
the praised rupture,
the sanctified split.

Everything is torn
and taught to remain torn.

The old ligaments of neighborliness,
frayed.
The sinews of patience,
snapped.
The small capillaries of mercy
burst one by one
beneath the pressure
of opinion, spectacle, grievance, noise.

We are leaking.

Trust runs into the street.
Language pools beneath the door.
Truth is carried away
on a thousand little red channels
no one bothers to close.

And everywhere
the merchants of division
move among us
with clean white gloves,
smiling,
holding their polished instruments,
whispering that this incision
is necessary,
that this cut is clarity,
that this tearing apart
is what it means
to be awake.

They call hemorrhage conviction.
They call hatred discernment.
They call contempt wisdom.
They call cruelty a kind
of courage.

And we, half-dizzy,
half-devout,
watching our common life
soak through the bandages,
mistake the spreading stain
for a flag.

Even the holy things
are not spared.

Altars become platforms.
Prayer becomes signal.
Prophets are drafted
into factions.
The wounds of the world
are trimmed and displayed
for effect.
Compassion is made to perform
beneath bright lights
until it no longer knows
how to touch a body
without first finding a camera.

How strange,
that a people can perish
not by a single blow
but by endless bleeding.
Not by invasion
but by laceration from within.
Not by silence
but by the shriek
of everyone opening
everyone else.

We have become
students of severing.
Apprentices of fracture.
Curators of the unsutured.

Every difference
a knife.
Every slight
a blade returned.
Every memory
reopened.
Every sorrow
milked for more.

No one asks now
how to heal a wound.
Only how to name it,
frame it,
share it,
weaponize it,
keep it wet.

And still—
still somewhere beneath
this failing body,
beneath the fevered rhetoric,
beneath the hot blush
of tribal wrath,
some quiet stubborn tissue
tries to knit.

A hand reaches.
A voice lowers.
A stranger refuses
the sweet narcotic
of contempt.
Someone binds what they did not tear.
Someone stays near
what others abandoned.
Someone chooses
not victory,
but mending.

Perhaps that is how
an age survives itself.

Not by denying blood.
Not by pretending
there was never injury.
But by kneeling at last
beside the opened body
and saying:

Enough.

Let the wound close.
Let the pressure ease.
Let mercy return
to the smallest vessels.
Let the torn muscle remember
its first design.
Let us become again
something more than our bleeding.

For if this is
the Hemorrh Age,
then let there also rise
against it
the tender and stubborn saints
of suturing,

the keepers of bandages,
the washers of torn flesh,
the enemies of spectacle,
the last believers
that a body
still can heal.

Autocephaly and the Age of Polarization

Autocephaly means “self-headed.” In the life of the church, it refers to a body that governs itself rather than being ruled by a higher authority elsewhere. In its proper sense, it is not necessarily rebellion, and it is not the same thing as schism. It can be a way of honoring local history, local language, local suffering, and local responsibility. A people may need space to pray, discern, and order their common life without being managed by a distant power that neither knows them nor loves them well.

There is something good in that. Not all unity is holy. Sometimes what is called unity is actually domination. Sometimes centralization silences the weak, flattens the local, and blesses the priorities of empire. In such cases, a measure of self-rule can be a form of dignity. It can protect a people from being absorbed into somebody else’s story. It can allow faith to be spoken in a native tongue, clothed in local memory, and embodied in forms that are truly rooted rather than imposed.

Yet every good thing casts a shadow.

What begins as the rightful desire not to be ruled can become the unrighteous desire not to be related. What begins as self-governance can harden into self-enclosure. In a polarized age, that danger is everywhere.

Communities wounded by neglect or control often retreat into their own certainty. They do not merely seek freedom; they begin to seek purity. They define themselves not only by what they are, but by what they are not. They become “self-headed” in the deepest and most dangerous sense: accountable to no one beyond themselves.

Then autocephaly becomes more than a church structure. It becomes a spiritual condition.

We can see this far beyond ecclesial debates. Political tribes become autocephalous. Media ecosystems become autocephalous. Families, congregations, movements, and even individuals become autocephalous. Each claims its own authority, its own facts, its own moral universe. Each comes to believe that dependence is weakness and mutual correction is betrayal. The result is not healthy difference within a living body, but a scattering of severed heads, each insisting it alone can see.

Modern polarization feeds on this instinct. People feel unheard, misrepresented, and overruled, so they gather with those who share their grievance. At first this may be a necessary act of survival. There are times when people truly must withdraw from abusive systems.

There are times when a community must say, “We cannot remain under this yoke.” But the wound that gives birth to separation can also become the justification for permanent alienation. The memory of harm becomes the theology of exclusion.

And here the church must be careful.

Christian faith is not a celebration of either domination or isolation. The body of Christ is neither a machine controlled from above nor a pile of disconnected parts. It is one body with many members, each distinct, each necessary, none sufficient unto itself. The hand is not the foot. The eye is not the ear.

Yet none can say to another, “I have no need of you.” The danger of our age is that we have become very skilled at saying precisely that.

So, the question is not whether local integrity matters. It does. The question is whether local integrity can remain joined to communion.

Can a people govern themselves without idolizing themselves? Can they protect their own life without imagining that all truth now resides only within their border? Can they remember that self-rule is a discipline of responsibility, not a license for self-absolutizing?

These are not only questions for Orthodox churches. They are questions for all of us. They are questions for congregations that split, for denominations that fracture, for parties that demonize, for citizens who sort themselves into mutually hostile worlds. They are questions for every person tempted to confuse conviction with closure.

Perhaps the deepest Christian word against polarization is not uniformity but communion.

Communion does not erase difference. It does not demand silence about injustice. It does not ask the wounded to pretend they have not been wounded. But it does insist that the goal of freedom is not merely separation. The goal is reconciled life. The goal is a community in which truth can be spoken, dignity honored, wrongs confessed, and relationship restored without coercion.

In that sense, the lesson of autocephaly for our time is double-edged. It reminds us that no community should be crushed under distant domination. But it also warns us that self-governance without shared life can become another captivity. We may escape the tyranny of others only to enthrone the tyranny of ourselves.

The church, if it is to speak faithfully in an age of polarization, must resist both temptations. It must reject false unity built on control, and false freedom built on estrangement. It must become a people capable of bearing difference without making an idol of division. It must learn again how to be many members with one life.

For the great question of our age is not simply who will rule. It is whether we still desire to belong to one another at all.

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https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Various-GoodWords-1863/pages/779-reconciled/

Picture by Tom Graham (1840-1906) engraved by the Dalziels in Good Words, for a poem “Reconciled” by English poet Jean Ingelow.

The reconciliation is between—well, that would spoil the surprise, but you can go read the poem, it won’t fit here.

Thomas was known for his careful attention to light and detail and it shows.

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“If you can fine a company for lying about its environmental claims, you can and must use those exact same anti-misrepresentation powers against a company that lies about its Indigenous partnerships.”

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https://www.windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/ignoring-indigenous-consent-poses-real-financial-risk-investors-securities

“If you can fine a company for lying about its environmental claims, you can and must use those exact same anti-misrepresentation powers against a company that lies about its Indigenous partnerships.”

#Indigenous #redwashing #FPIC #FirstNations #ONpoli #Ontario #reconciliation #securities #regulators

https://www.windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/ignoring-indigenous-consent-poses-real-financial-risk-investors-securities

“If you can fine a company for lying about its environmental claims, you can and must use those exact same anti-misrepresentation powers against a company that lies about its Indigenous partnerships.”

#Indigenous #redwashing #FPIC #FirstNations #ONpoli #Ontario #reconciliation #securities #regulators

https://www.windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/ignoring-indigenous-consent-poses-real-financial-risk-investors-securities

“If you can fine a company for lying about its environmental claims, you can and must use those exact same anti-misrepresentation powers against a company that lies about its Indigenous partnerships.”

#Indigenous #redwashing #FPIC #FirstNations #ONpoli #Ontario #reconciliation #securities #regulators

https://www.windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/ignoring-indigenous-consent-poses-real-financial-risk-investors-securities

“If you can fine a company for lying about its environmental claims, you can and must use those exact same anti-misrepresentation powers against a company that lies about its Indigenous partnerships.”

#Indigenous #redwashing #FPIC #FirstNations #ONpoli #Ontario #reconciliation #securities #regulators

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