A few days ago I cried — the real, big, splashing version of tears — over a book for the first time in a long time. It was a Sunday afternoon, and we were banished from our house because of an open house hosted by our...

The other night, our church hosted a discussion about how to simplify Christmas. We invited a local expert — a busy mother of eight with years of experience fine tuning Christmas — and we sat around and shared ideas.

Why not accept that great new idea someone just shared with you?

New research shows opportunity for improvement

I admit it. I was one of the few people, it seemed at the time, who didn’t quite love, love, love the New York Times bestselling book by Canada’s best known farmer’s wife: One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp. I loved th...

IN A CULTURE OF GREED, ARE OUR DESIRES ALWAYS WRONG? PHOTO BY MYLES TAN

Here’s an expanded alphabetical list including the ten listed in our Nov/Dec 2016 print edition. You won’t want to miss them this Christmas! Simply click a headline to visit that charity’s online gift catalogue.

The trouble with do-it-yourself transformation

Larry Worthen is executive director of the Christian Medical and Dental Society of Canada, an organization that has stepped up to try to protect the conscience rights of Canadian doctors who have religious objections ...

Less than a week before the U.S. presidential election, the presidents of EFC affiliate institutions met in Mississauga for the annual Presidents Day gathering. One of the speakers was Dr. Lee Beach, author of The Chu...

Gender fluidity is confusing and challenging to churches. How should we respond?

The beloved song has a complicated history

Child neglect and the response of our churches

Many people today think of the persecuted Church as some foreign entity in a distant land. But the persecuted Church is the body of Christ – they’re a part of us.

Charting religious trends in Canada over the past 50 years has been a fascinating experience. Like the announcer who is calling the game from the booth, I have watched a wide range of church leaders down on the field ...