On March 19, Broadview published the digital story, “The everyday ceremony that grounds me during Lent,” written by Rev. Shane Goldie, a Two-Spirit Cree-Métis United Church minister. 

Goldie’s story was also featured in the March/April 2026 print issue and reflects on his use of sweetgrass within his Christian practice as an Indigenous person. 

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While the piece was generally well received, one commenter questioned where Christianity was evident in the article and requested supporting Bible verses.

Goldie responded with this thoughtful biblical reflection on the intersection of his Indigenous culture and Christian faith. Drawing on scripture, he offers a meditation on the many ways people of all cultures and nations live out the Gospel. 

Thank you for your honesty. I want to receive your words with the same care and seriousness that you are asking for. Scripture matters deeply to me. Christ matters deeply to me. This is not a conversation I take lightly.

I am an ordained Christian minister in The United Church of Canada. I hold both a bachelor’s degree in theology and a master of divinity. My life, my call and my ministry are rooted in Jesus Christ, in scripture and in the living presence of God. I also walk with and honour Indigenous spirituality, and I do not see these as competing paths, but as places where the fullness of God’s truth is revealed more deeply.

If the question is whether creation, the land and practices that draw us closer to God through the physical world are........

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