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31 December, 2017
2017 Nov/Dec Table of Contents - Vol 35 No 6

The Mystery of the Incarnation. Why God becoming fresh is the paramount teaching of the Christian faith

21 December, 2017
Reconciliation resources

Are you looking for ways to work towards reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians? Here’s the start of a Faith Today list of resources, compiled in conjunction with our special package of reconci...

18 December, 2017
Taking time for the cheeseball

Yesterday I whipped up a cheeseball — for when else do you have a cheeseball but at Christmas? — and we invited our neighbours and a few friends over for an impromptu gathering. We sang Christmas carols, quite badly f...

12 December, 2017
Confessions of a tech addict

Before I had my own iPhone, I judged harshly those pathetic, addicted people who always had their phones on, and on them. Always scrolling, fingers dashing from one app to another, sometimes barely looking up. Ch...

03 December, 2017
Advent is a robust and demanding spiritual season

Advent simply means to come, (Latin: advenire, from ad-‘to’ venire-‘come’) and it is the forty-day liturgical season Christians have traditionally set aside to anticipate the coming of Christ at Christmas, experienced...

29 November, 2017
Today at the Supreme Court of Canada

There is a “Caution! Risk of falling ice and snow” sign outside the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa, even though we’re not quite there yet in terms of pending danger. Any snow that has fallen hasn’t stayed for long,...

28 November, 2017
Is faith important in Canada?

More acknowledgement is needed in current public discourse

27 November, 2017
T.T. Shields

The Canadian Baptist who never avoided controversy

27 November, 2017
Maybe the church should make a spectacle of itself more often

We arrived at the appointed place and time. We’d been told there would be someone at the front gate to let us in. Sure enough a man approached the gate from the other side of the high fence and we made our way over t...

20 November, 2017
A prayer for South Sudan. A prayer for all of us.

As my flight began its decent into Juba, South Sudan, and I once again saw the vast, dry, desolate land below me, my heart ached. “God, help this land,” I prayed. “Intervene in a way only You can. Bring peace and he...

16 November, 2017
The FT Interview with Lorna Dueck

Lorna Dueck is CEO of Crossroads Christian Communications Inc., home of the popular daytime TV show 100 Huntley Street. She’s also CEO of the YES TV network, and a frequent contributor on faith and public life in The ...