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Josiah Neufeld

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Religion reporter at The Winnipeg Free Press and Broadview magazine. www.winnipegfreepress.com/biographi… Author of The Temple at the End of the Universe. www.josiahneufeld.com

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Josiah Neufeld @josiahneufeld.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Are [the referendum] questions proposing solutions or are they presenting scapegoats?” asks Chris Mah Poy, an Albertan whose ancestors had to pay the Chinese head tax. I travelled to Alberta to talk to people about their faith and the upcoming referendum. broadview.org/alberta-refe...
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Whose Christianity will shape Alberta’s future? | Broadview Magazine
As the province heads toward a referendum on independence and immigration, Christians are divided over what faith demands
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Josiah Neufeld @josiahneufeld.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“When you’ve been raised in a Mennonite household where you’ve been told marriage is for life, you’re actually betting your soul on stepping out.” broadview.org/the-confessi...
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The Confession booth on wheels | Broadview Magazine
As a Mennonite professor tours rural Manitoba in a converted camper trailer, a small congregation becomes an unlikely home for people
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Josiah Neufeld @josiahneufeld.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This started out as a story about technology and human connection and turned into a story about a renegade church in Manitoba's Bible belt and surprising second chances. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
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Canadian Mennonite University instructor uses camper audio studio to capture stories of human connection in a time of isolation, alienation
GRUNTHAL — Last Sunday, David Balzer parked his vintage 1978 Triple E Surfside camper trailer on a church lot in town and, like an itinerant priest with a mobile confessional, prepared to hear people’...
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Josiah Neufeld @josiahneufeld.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Canadian Quakers, a tiny Christian denomination, believe prisons should be abolished. Really enjoyed reporting and writing this one. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
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Quaker movement fuelled by a fierce sense of social justice
A few weeks ago, the erstwhile punk-rock-poet John Samson Fellows taught an auditorium full of people how to fold a paper cup.
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Josiah Neufeld @josiahneufeld.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif... Muhaidin Omar and the Bilal Community & Family Centre are running a vital restorative justice program in Winnipeg. I wrote about it for the Winnipeg Free Press.
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Winnipeg mosque’s restorative justice program helps newcomers find their way
The Masjid Bilal is a chunky grey building just off Logan Avenue surrounded by warehouses and railyards. It looks more like a bunker than a mosque.
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Josiah Neufeld @josiahneufeld.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Building reconciliation, one Indigenous-led project at a time | Broadview Magazine
The Catholic Archdiocese of Winnipeg is supporting healing initiatives that range from a survivor-led healing village to restorative justice and cultural preservation
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Josiah Neufeld @josiahneufeld.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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An aging congregation bets its future on the next generation | Broadview Magazine
Facing dwindling attendance and rising upkeep costs, Winnipeg's Churchill Park United is transforming its building into a 112-space daycare
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Josiah Neufeld @josiahneufeld.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Two stories I published this weekend about the first Pride event in a deeply divided town. www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...
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Hundreds turn out to support Winkler’s first Pride celebration
On Saturday morning, the day of Winkler’s first Pride celebration, Erika Enns Rodine, a Mennonite pastor wearing a white T-shirt with a rainbow-coloured dove on it, prayed.
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Josiah Neufeld @josiahneufeld.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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Palestinian Christians seek solidarity amid war and displacement | Broadview Magazine
Conference speakers urge global churches to support communities facing bombardment, forced migration and an uncertain future
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Josiah Neufeld @josiahneufeld.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
All the stories I write for my new beat as religion reporter at The Winnipeg Free Press can be read here for free. (They'll also be posted on the Broadview website.) www.winnipegfreepress.com/biographies/...
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Josiah Neufeld – Winnipeg Free Press
Breaking News, Sports, Manitoba, Canada
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Josiah Neufeld @josiahneufeld.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Can't wait to get started!
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Josiah Neufeld @josiahneufeld.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I'm grateful to all the tireless organizers who spoke to me for this piece.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
We lost the only true moral leader on the world stage. It's immense. But Pope Francis led by listening to the grassroots, lifting up the people's demands. He put "ecological debt" in the climate encyclical, a concept that emerged in Ecuador's oil-poisoned jungle. Millions of leaders remain.
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Josiah Neufeld @josiahneufeld.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Looking forward to this!
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Josiah Neufeld @josiahneufeld.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
"Austerity is self-perpetuating. The reluctance to invest what’s needed in public programs means that those programs often disappoint, creating a vicious circle—underfunded programs don’t deliver the services we need, our trust in government is undermined." thewalrus.ca/common-sense...
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The Politics of “Common Sense” Is Making Us Meaner | The Walrus
Cutting services is treated like conventional wisdom. But it has led to a world that fails many of us
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
As Europe did in wake of Putin's invasion of Ukraine, we need to rapidly make ourselves less dependent on oil & gas. These fuels are poison, not only to the earth but to democracy; the more reliant we are, the more it serves the petro-oligarchs and their political servants like Putin & Trump...
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Josiah Neufeld @josiahneufeld.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Ok, now that I've joined the masses migrating to a site not owned by an oligarchic billionaire, let me introduce myself with a thread of some of my writing from 2024.
A person in a sweater and scarf standing outside in the snow holding a book titled The Temple at the End of the Universe.
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Josiah Neufeld @josiahneufeld.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
What @creeclayton.bsky.social points out👇 is starkly visible in this documentary: gem.cbc.ca/yintah. Everyone should watch it.
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Yintah | Films | CBC Gem
Yintah follows Witsuwit’en leaders for over a decade as they fight to protect their lands from fossil-fuel companies.
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Received the first bound proof/ARC of Is A River Alive? today, 3.5 yrs after starting work on it. Always an exciting waymark in a book’s journey. Neon-zing meander art by @stanleydonwood.bsky.social Lovely to hold it in hand: it exists! Out 1 May next year: dedicated to the rivers & their guardians.
Hand holding proof copy of Is A River Alive?, with blue meanders over neon green background as design.
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Josiah Neufeld @josiahneufeld.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Nowhere I'd rather be on the night of the Giller Prize than in a room full of friends and writers reading aloud the work of Palestinian and Indigenous poets. Here I'm reading "Remembering Mahmoud 1976" from Lee Maracle's gorgeous book Talking to the Diaspora.
Person in a grey cardigan, black t-shirt and maroon pants reading from a book of poetry by Lee Maracle.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hey Bluesky, I am excited by all the energy coalescing on this platform. It seems like a place for strategic thinking, which we badly need. A few initial thoughts: 🧵
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