It was Trinity Sunday at Crossroads, but after the announcement on Friday of the discovery of the remains of 215 children in the grounds of the Kamloops (Tk’emlups) Indian Residential School, our focus moved.

Rev. Cari preached on the 6th chapter of the prophet Isaiah. This text is typically called the “call of Isaiah” but it contains so much more. It gives us a look at the vocation of a prophet, a person who puts their imagination to work at announcing the truth of God’s vision of justice, righteousness, and healing. And it offers us a glance at the resistance the prophets typically face.

The events of this week give settler peoples another opportunity to recognize our own complicity with “the powers that be.”  To decide to hear clearly, see perceptively, and hone our hearts to an uncomfortable truth. And then to respond to God’s call to healing.