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03 April, 2017
Seven great reasons to grab hold of the May/jun Faith Today

Hey folks! We are excited, as always, about the next issue of Faith Today. And we think you will be too. Here are seven great things coming up, and seven great reasons to subscribe today…

28 March, 2017
Making peace with creation: The story behind the new film out of Regent College

I knew that I had to make this film after my wife, Amanda, and I took part in the ‘Boat Course’, a remarkable educational experience that Loren and Mary Ruth Wilkinson devised and have been offering at Regent College ...

23 March, 2017
Tolerance and respect

Two key principles that can help us live with our differences

22 March, 2017
My conversation with a man whose wife died by assisted suicide

The other day I met a man whose wife had died by assisted suicide earlier this year. We sat beside each other on an airplane and struck up conversation, as people do. We discovered we were both writers of a sort, and ...

16 March, 2017
An earthy God

Why I’ve come to love weekly communion

16 March, 2017
A Protestant crossroads

Vancouver 1917: How controversy births new things

14 March, 2017
The latest issue of Faith Today is out in the world

Politics is on everyone’s mind these days. It’s almost impossible to avoid, and why would we? As Christians we know we are citizens of another Kingdom, one we will welcome someday in its fullness. But in the meantime ...

13 March, 2017
John Bowen goes very personal with his review of Andy Crouch book

No book is read in a vacuum. You may kid yourself that you are “getting away from it all” to be quiet and simply read. But the “all” never retreats very far. And if the book is any good, it will follow you back into t...

06 March, 2017
What if your love language stinks?

Years ago, at a marriage retreat we were attending, the couple leading the talk made reference to the hugely bestselling book The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts by Gary Chapman. They listed off the lo...

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...