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03 March, 2017
The Shack: Sometimes ramshackle, but with a solid foundation

It was pretty much inevitable that a version of The Shack, the bestselling novel by Canadian-born author William Paul Young, would find its way to the big screen.

03 March, 2017
Short-term missions are good for whose soul?

Major Canadian study on attitudes to mission releases first of five reports.

02 March, 2017
What if we actually succeeded?

What kind of formative welcome do we have ready for new Christians?

27 February, 2017
The beauty of church

There are a hundred reasons to dislike church. A thousand reasons to suspend your participation in one church, or swap it for attendance at another. I attend church every Sunday and I haven’t church shopped, swapped o...

13 February, 2017
The difference crokinole can make to everyone

Our writer, Lisa Hall-Wilson, takes us behind the scenes of her article, “Can churches do better with our seniors?” including extra material and the background story behind the pivotal “Mr. Brown,” the senior who had ...

06 February, 2017
How a Canadian church can easily stay in the good books of the CRA

Faith Today dove into the question of “what if?” a church loses their charitable status in the Jan/Feb issue of the magazine. John Pellowe is chief executive officer of the Canadian Council of Christian Charities, and...

31 January, 2017
Dead to distraction

It’s good to take a break from technology

28 January, 2017
When people leave a church to go to another. And you are left behind.

Here at the Faith Today blog, we wanted to draw your attention to The Circulation of the Saints story in our Jan/Feb issue. The subtitle to that story is “When people leave a church and you are left behind.” This is ...

27 January, 2017
Two dimensions of religious freedom

We strengthen society when we help religious agnostics realize they aren’t neutral

25 January, 2017
Trump and prophecy

Amazing things have been said about the new U.S. president

25 January, 2017
The FT Interview with Ann Voskamp

Ann Voskamp is the Ontario farmer’s wife, wildly successful – and wonderfully humble – author of The New York Times bestseller One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, and most recently The Broken...

23 January, 2017
Christians and mental health: we should be good at helping others

When I had a routine 18-week ultrasound for my second child, I was not prepared to hear that she had a serious genetic anomaly, and that her life expectancy would be short, if she survived birth. One of the things th...

20 January, 2017
Tom Harpur’s life demonstrates how religion in Canada has changed

Tom Harpur was one of the most popular Canadian religion writers over the last half-century. He died recently at the age of 87, after many decades of writing about religion in Canada.