Podcast & Videos

Thoughtful, relevant conversations with Christian guests hosted by Faith Today senior editor Bill Fledderus and other team members. Our chats with expert guests have shifted over to our podcast and video sections, so don't judge us by the pre-2022 webinars interspersed below. :)

28 November, 2024
Webinar Faith matters: Engaging critical Canadian issues Check out this free series from our publisher (we know, they're not really webinars) explaining Christian perspectives on issues that face Canada today. Great for small groups, each of the six episodes takes about 10 minutes. They tackle: the value of life, caring for the vulnerable, religious freedom, discipleship, Indigenous relations, and parenting. Watch the short trailer now. 1:58
28 January, 2026 Faith Today Podcast Episode 254 - Daniel Collado
Faith Today TV Right relationships: One friendship at a time Dan Collado is Indigenous Peoples coordinator at The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada and director of Aboriginal Bible Academy in Napanee, Ont. He chats with host David Guretzki about the importance of personal friendship building in a society where relationships with Indigenous people at the national level are so damaged. 56:28
27 February, 2026
Podcast Coping with misinformation

Molly Thomas is the host and producer of Big [If True], a weekly show launched in November 2024 on TVO that tackles misinformation, disinformation, conspiracies, hoaxes and scams. She talks with host Bill Fledderus about how Christians can be taken in by fake news, how to protect ourselves and more.

 

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27 April, 2022
Webinar Meet the author of Posting Peace Watch a recording of our April 27 discussion on what we can do about the divisiveness of social media. With author Douglas Bursch. 1:11:46
09 December, 2025 Faith Today Podcast Episode 252 - Keith Dow
Faith Today TV Suffering, Identity & Hope: Christian Approaches to Caregiving Keith Dow is a theologian who focuses on care and community, as he does in his book "Formed Together: Mystery, Narrative, and Virtue in Christian Caregiving" (Baylor, 2021) and in his work with Karis Disability Services. He talks with host David Guretzki about Christian perspectives on disability, the ethics of care and issues like MAiD and euthanasia. 49:16
23 January, 2026
Podcast Right relationships: One friendship at a time How can Christians benefit from Indigenous transformational approaches to relationship, compared to Western transactional approaches? Dan Collado of Aboriginal Bible Academy chats with host David Guretzki about the importance of personal friendship building in a society where relationships with Indigenous people at the national level are so damaged. 45:21
03 March, 2022
Webinar Four new EFC resources for churches The EFC recently launched four new resources to help churches engage with politicians, host conversations on racism, participate in Indigenous reconciliation, and welcome newcomers to Canada. Watch this recording to find out more. 49:18
31 October, 2025 Faith Today Podcast Episode 250 - Rick Hiemstra - Pastoral shortages? Calling and training for ministry
Faith Today TV Pastoral shortages? Calling and training for ministry Rick Hiemstra is a former Wesleyan pastor who now directs the EFC's Centre for Research on Church and Faith. He and host David Guretzki reflect on increasing concerns over upcoming pastor retirements and the shrinking numbers of future pastors. 47:50
20 December, 2025
Podcast What's Christian about foreign aid?

Global aid is not just charity, but a shared responsibility and strategic investment rooted in the biblical call to stewardship, compassion, and justice, says Laura Solberg, executive director of Kentro Christian Network, the national hub representing 70 Christian relief and development organizations across Canada. She chats from Vancouver with host Bill Fledderus in Hamilton

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10 October, 2025 Faith Today Podcast Episode 249 - Glenn Smith (Christians in Montreal today and across history)
Faith Today TV Christians in Montreal today and across history Glenn Smith of McGill University recently published "Christians in the City of Montréal." He discusses the end of nominalist Christianity and what vibrant spirituality looks like in a culture that ignores transcendence. 51:05
26 January, 2022
Webinar Meet the author of Refuge Reimagined Watch our discussion with Vancouver Bible scholar Mark Glanville, co-author of a book on compassion for displaced people, from Jan. 26. You can also watch the Facebook Live version of this event. 1:04:06
05 December, 2025
Podcast Suffering, Identity & Hope: Christian Approaches to Caregiving Keith Dow is a theologian who focuses on care and community, as he does in his book "Formed Together: Mystery, Narrative, and Virtue in Christian Caregiving" (Baylor, 2021) and in his work with Karis Disability Services. He talks with host David Guretzki about Christian perspectives on disability, the ethics of care and issues like MAiD and euthanasia. 43:58
01 October, 2025 Cross Connections Episode 2  -  Not Without Prayer (Featuring Athlete, Coach and Mentor Leon Brown)
Faith Today TV Not without prayer David Guretzki, president of The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, delves into the importance of prayer and how it relates to physical training in a wide-ranging conversation with athlete, coach and mentor Leon Brown. 34:52
18 November, 2021
Webinar Meet author and expert on congregational flourishing Joel Thiessen What does it look like for a congregation to flourish? Hear from sociologist Joel Thiessen of Ambrose University, co-author of the book Signs of Life: Catholic, Mainline, and Conservative Protestant Congregations in Canada (Tyndale Academic, 2021). He discusses 11 categories of possible flourishing in a congregation. 1:01:58
20 November, 2025
Podcast Reaching and supporting migrants with the gospel Host David Guretzki chats with Shoaib Ebadi about reaching and supporting migrants with the gospel. Since 2010 Shoaib Ebadi and his wife have, from Canada, been running an evangelical TV program called Secret of Life, which is broadcast in Afghanistan where he grew up as a Muslim. Ebadi directs Square One World Media, an organization producing Christian content in Russian, Arabic, Low German, Spanish and more, including programs for Indigenous audiences in Canada. 40:23
05 October, 2021
Webinar Faith deconstruction webinar with Peter Schuurman Many Christians who use the term deconstruction today are either shifting from one tradition to another or leaving Christianity entirely, writes Peter Schuurman at FaithToday.ca/DeconstructingFaith. Here's the video of our Oct. 5 webinar with editors Karen Stiller and Bill Fledderus. 1:03:30