MayJun 2025: Your church's story. Coming undone. Image Bearers! Of God's love, unite. The gift of immigration. One on one with Jennifer Bowen of Shalem Mental Health Network.
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Cover story
Your church's story. Telling and living it for a dynamic future. By Joel Thiessen
- Une traduction de cet article en français est en cours de réalisation.
Features
Coming undone. The landscape of faith deconstruction in polarized times. By Angela Reitsma Bick and Peter Schuurman
Image Bearers! Of God's love, unite. Able-bodied and disabled people are coworkers in ministry. By Jenna Sanderson. Photo above of Jenna Sanderson and parents by Matthew Tsang of Riverspiral Photography.
The gift of immigration. Embracing citizenship in the Kingdom of God. By Paola Barrera
The FT interview: One on one with Jennifer Bowen, executive director of Shalem Mental Health Network.
Fellowship Skills Series. How to master your thoughts. By Paul Turner
In each issue
Behind the scenes. God the renovator. Seeing the Spirit in hearts and bricks. By Bill Fledderus
Talking points. Milestones, Readers Write, Podcast Lineup, Contributors
News. Notes. Ideas
- An invitation to pray boldly for Canada. Crossroads, the EFC and Cardus unite for nationwide prayer campaign.
- Making a joyful noise. Piano lessons with a difference.
- A heart for worship. Calgary worship leader shares her passion to glorify God.
- Women’s shelter for 20. Cambridge church partners with the YWCA.
- Faith trends. Weekly religious service attendance in Canada 1946–2023.
- Inspiring ideas: Serving and sailing. Exploring England's church history. Glorifying God through entrepreneurship. Making healthy food accessible in Saskatchewan. Community and healing after divorce.
- By the numbers. How Canadians spend their time.
- Noteworthy: Growth and impact through Alpha courses. Accessibility for community outreach program. A refuge for refugees. The Church’s role in combating loneliness. Halifax church shelter for 25.
- Reaching the unreached online. Reframing the digital space for evangelism and discipleship.
- Food share program expands. Extra food support for 60 families in the Nisga’a Nation
Cross connections. A postelection confession. Some things we know to be true. By columnist David Guretzki
- Une traduction de cet article en français est en cours de réalisation.
At issue: For prayer and action. Our posture toward the foreigner.
The gathering place. Beyond the election. Our ongoing political task. By columnist Bruce Clemenger
- Une traduction de cet article en français est en cours de réalisation.
News from the EFC. UN committee opposes MAiD expansion. Advice to U.K. on palliative care and euthanasia. Election resources. Welcoming newcomers. EFC events in Atlantic Canada. Prayer video from EFC president. Prayer events in Halifax and Toronto.
All things reconciled: News from the Peace and Reconciliation Network. Serving neighbours as never before. Albania: Reconciliation in education. Evangelical-Roman Catholic Dialogue. Mission rooted in Scripture. By David Donaldson
Thriving in digital. Faithful, not fearful. Engaging political news online with wisdom. By Joanna la Fleur
History lesson. Challenging the pirate stereotype. Christian practices among pirates of the golden age. By Chiante Duncan
Church and community. Superhero Sunday builds all-ages connections.
Books & culture
- Extended review: Longing for Joy: An Invitation into the Goodness and Beauty of Life. By Alastair Sterne
- Extended review: I…Do? Why Marriage Still Matters. By Andrea Mrozek and Peter Jon Mitchell
- Extended review: Glassroom Learning: Virtual Culture and Online Pastoral Education. By Jason Mills
- Extended review: Pentecostal Preacher Woman: The Faith and Feminism of Bernice Gerard. By Linda M. Ambrose
- Extended Reading the Bestsellers review: We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People. By Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson
- Q + A with poet/woodworker John Terpstra
- Canadian Creatives: Bowels of Mercy, art by Patty Bowman Kingsley
- New media roundup
- Going Big: Lessons on Success in Business, Life and Faith
- Poetry in Place: Poetry and Environmental Hope in a Southern Ontario Bioregion
- The Father & the Feminine: Exploring the Grammar of God and Gender
- Proclaiming Christ in a Pluralistic Age: The 1978 Lectures
- Tragedy of the Commons: A Christological Companion to the Book of 1 Samuel
- and more.
Final word. Shaila Visser is national director of Alpha Canada and global senior vice-president of Alpha International.