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05 January, 2017
What’s up with Jan/Feb Faith Today?

The Jan/Feb issue of Faith Today didn’t start out to be a church-themed issue, but that is where we ended up. And why should that surprise us?

04 January, 2017
Discrimination and Christian universities

What to do when the academic establishment forbids firing on ethical or doctrinal grounds

02 January, 2017
A new kind of bucket list for a new year

Do you have a bucket list for 2017? Author Ann Voskamp (our Jan/Feb Faith Today Interview) in her latest book The Broken Way: a daring path into the abundant life, suggests we think bigger than that. “What if,” she wr...

01 January, 2017
Can churches do better with our seniors?

Many seniors feel there is no place for them at church. How can that change?

01 January, 2017
Les églises peuvent-elles faire mieux pour nos aînés?

Beaucoup d'aînés estiment qu'il n'y a pas de place pour eux à l'église. Comment cela peut-il changer?

31 December, 2016
2016 Nov/Dec Table of Contents - Vol 34 No 6

In a culture of greed, are our desires always wrong?

14 December, 2016
Our favourite Faith Today stories in 2016

As a fun end-of-year exercise, we editors put our heads together and chose some of our favourite Faith Today stories from 2016. “Favourite” meaning they resonated with readers for some reason. Or favourite could mean ...

12 December, 2016
How I wound up on 100 Huntley St with my golden doodle

It was actually a Faith Today article and webinar that indirectly led to my dog Dewey and I embarking on a journey to become a therapy dog team visiting seniors in a residence. While researching and interviewing for ...

12 December, 2016
Kim’s Convenience Creator Reflects On His Background As A Theology Student

Ins Choi (IC) is an actor and a playwright, who has been called “Canadian Theatre’s breakout star.” His award-winning play “Kim’s Convenience” has been adapted for television and is a new hit for CBC.

11 December, 2016
Canadian poet creates new collection to help us “turn aside”

D.S. Martin is a Canadian poet and the editor of the Poiema Poetry Series. His latest endeavour is The Turning Aside, “a collection of Christian poetry from dozens of the most spiritually insightful poetic voices of ...

05 December, 2016
The saints of old and persecuted Christians today

The first time I told another Evangelical I was taking a course called “The Lives of the Saints: Then and Now,” the response to my enthusiasm for my subject was less than enthusiastic. An arched eyebrow. A slight tilt...

04 December, 2016
Why I recently bawled over a Christian novel

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...

30 November, 2016
How to simplify Christmas, maybe

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.

30 November, 2016
Beware theological malpractice

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