An extended review of a 2025 book by Mark Clark
Last Sunday morning, my lovely 17-year old daughter told me she was going to the gym instead of church. I told her she wasn’t. She told me she was. I repeated she wasn’t. Then she said, “I have no choice in this!”
The Flourishing Congregations Institute probes what is working in Canadian congregations
In his book Made to Live, Montreal physician Paul Saba gives examples of families and patients who chose life over death, despite the challenges. The book is inspired by his experience with his own daughter, who doctors suggested should be aborted.
I was back on Canadian soil after spending two weeks with World Vision in Uganda and Tanzania. What I learned about the HIV/AIDS pandemic and its life-altering affects on women and children forever altered my life. How could I ever get back to normality after seeing a very di...
An extended Reading the Bestsellers review of a 2024 book by Lesley Crewe
We are born incurvatus in se. But we don’t have to stay that way.
It was a powerful evening. Sure, there are all kinds of significant differences between the congregations represented at that vigil. But everyone believed that making a united statement for peace was important.
What is the latest on human trafficking in Canada? Who are the victims? What can individuals and Canadian churches do to help with this overwhelming problem? Julia Beazley, director of public policy for the EFC, updates us and shares the EFC recommendations made recently to a ...
Care for some of the most vulnerable dying people is essential ministry. An extended version of a Jan/Feb 2023 print article.