Reverend Dr. Cheri DiNovo, C.M. is an ordained United Church minister who performed Canada’s first legalized same sex marriage. She is currently the minister at Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre for Faith Justice and the Arts. Cheri is a Member of the Order of Canada, recognized for her contributions to provincial politics and for her lifelong advocacy of social justice. As the former Member of Provincial Parliament for Parkdale–High Park in Ontario, Cheri passed into law more pro-LGBTQ legislation than anyone in Canadian history.
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The Radical Reverend
Featured EPISODE
Faith Panel —
Canada unChristian University
On November 30, 2020, Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo CM presented testimony to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario against granting university status to Charles McVety’s Canada Christian College. Its open homo/bi/transphobia, Islamophobia, and antisemitism violates the Ontario Human Rights Code. In the first part of the show you’ll hear Cheri’s testimony.
In the second part of the show, The Radical Reverend hosts an interfaith panel discussion about it, along with other progressive faith issues including how we can confront white supremacy and male supremacy in our religious institutions.
Update: On December 7, 2020, Bill 213 passed allowing Canada Christian College to be granted university status.
Guests:
Jodi Fisher, United Church clergy
Shams el-Din Rogers, Muslim teacher, activist, and artist
The Christian Left Conference 2020
PANEL PRESENTATION
Jesus, the True Communist
Rev. Dr. Cheri DiNovo, C.M. presents her paper “Jesus, the True Communist” at the Christian Left Conference 2020.
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