Nov/Dec 2024 features: Making waves for justice's sake. Friend of sorrows. Community is crucial for teens. Communities impacted by an individual's pain. Wide-angle nativity. Faith-based community gardens. The FT Interview with Judy Paulsen.
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Cover story
Making waves for justice's sake. Courageous leadership invigorates antislavery work. By Patricia Paddey
Features
Friend of sorrows. Intimacy with a suffering saviour. By Karissa Sovdi
Community is crucial for teens. Research on challenges and gifts common to Gen Z. By Adam MacInnis
Communities impacted by an individual's pain. We need to attend to unhealed personal pain before it leaks out to hurt others. By Rod J. K. Wilson
Wide-angle nativity. Minor characters matter in telling the Christmas story. By Maxine Hancock
The (un)precedented Jesus. Childlessness, surprise pregnancies and grace in the Bible. By Lindsay Callaway
Faith-based community gardens build trust and skills. Churches and gardens “mutually beneficial” say researchers. By Irene-Grace Bom
The FT interview: One on one with Judy Paulsen, author of A New and Ancient Evangelism: Rediscovering the Ways God Calls and Sends (Baker, 2024), and professor of evangelism at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto.
Fellowship skills series. How to set healthy boundaries. By Nadine Crain
In each issue
Behind the scenes. Communities of hope. Celebrating together what we share in Jesus. By Karen Stiller & Bill Fledderus
Talking points. Milestones, Readers Write, Podcast Lineup, Contributors
News. Notes. Ideas
- Bible translation movement. Canada Institute for Linguistics continues to grow.
- Canadian Christian charities provide great ways to give. Annual Faith Today roundup of gift-giving guides.
- Cataloguing anti-Christian discrimination in Canada. New EFC initiative helps protect religious freedom.
- Series supports reconciliation. New Leaf webinars invite faith communities to “unsettle.”
- Rehab programs for sex offenders closing. CoSA Toronto and Kitchener will end without new partners.
- Podcast encourages leader soul care. Healthy Christian Leader Show made in Halifax.
- Care, coaching and connection for pastors. Former pastor launches The Shepherd’s Refuge.
- Faith trends. Insights about self-identified Christians from the 2021 census.
- Inspiring ideas: Iqaluit church serves unique role. First congregation, second language. Enhancing spiritual resources. Reading the room.
- By the numbers. Teleworkers spend more time with their children and get more sleep than other workers.
- Noteworthy: Non-Christians’ response to their past. Authenticity of Shroud of Turin. Church offerings remain steady. Politicians should listen to faith leaders. Accessibility upgrade for church. Texting the church.
Cross connections. The other Nativity scene. The deeper cosmic reality of Christ’s birth. By columnist David Guretzki
At issue: For prayer and action. Protecting kids from online harms.
The gathering place. Defending laws that protect against exploitation. Standing for vulnerable women and children. By columnist Bruce Clemenger
News from the EFC. Supporting internet age assurance. Challenging discrimination against women. Research on social media and youth. Webinars on keeping youth safe online. Supreme Court challenge to prostitution law. Bills on online harm and pornography.
All things reconciled: News from the Peace and Reconciliation Network. Reconciliation opportunities with Tibetans and Uyghurs in Canada. Beijing meeting with Chinese religious affairs. Olympics a chance to engage for the gospel. By David Donaldson
Thriving in digital. Connecting with Gen Z How to bridge digital worlds and the real world. By Joanna la Fleur
History lesson. Where did the phrase devil's advocate come from? Surprising origins and what we can learn. By Taylor Murray
Church and community. London church gives neighbour kids fun on a P.A. Day. Creative ways to love our neighbours.
Books & culture
- Extended book review: Rebecoming: Come Out of Hiding to Live as Your God-Given Essential Self, by Merry Lin
- Extended book review: God Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Decline and Resilience in the Canadian Church, by Michael Wood Daly
- Extended book review: A God Named Josh: Uncovering the Human Life of Jesus Christ, by Jared Brock
- Extended music review: My Foundation, by Jordan St. Cyr
- Extended Reading the Bestellers book review: Death and Other Inconveniences, by Lesley Crewe
- Q + A: with Quebec poet Mia Anderson
- Canadian Creatives: Frosted Fire, a painting by Marion Aitken
- New media roundup
- Friendship with Jesus: An Imaginative Prayer Journey
- Human Difference: Reflections on a Life in Proximity to Disability
- Too Many Deaths
- Discern + Engage: Essentials of Spiritual Warfare
- Being Human: Abortion and the Church
- Leading What Matters Most: A Business Parable on Unlocking Human Potential
- and more.
Final word. Janet Noel Annable, chief executive officer at Karis Disability Services in the Waterloo, Ont. region.