V I E W P O I N T Let me be honest with you: I don’t want my kids to be evangelical Christians when they grow up. It was…
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V I E W P O I N T Recently I was involved in a group reading through The Activist Impulse: Essays on the Intersections of Anabaptism and Evangelicalism. It…
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It’s time for new ways of being together
by ContributorA common theme emerges from the stories of families who have been members of the Mennonite Brethren church in Canada for many years. These immigrants who fled persecution and war…
Refusing to shy away from the reality of professional sexual misconduct Scan the news headlines from 2017 and 2018, and you’ll see something unprecedented: story after story about sexual misconduct…
Restoration, reconciliation and adult Sunday school Living in Canada in 2017, we have much to be grateful for. We are spared from armed conflicts, famines and so much more that…
“Drop in any time!” I waved goodbye to our guests, then closed the door and slumped against the wall, bleakly surveying the detritus left in their wake. What a mess.…
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How to work and share across differences
by ContributorWhat is the point of building relationships with people who believe differently than us?
Sitting in my car outside a Catholic church in Saskatoon, I was nervous and full of questions. As I pastor, I’m in church every Sunday – but I don’t actually…
Everywhere I’ve lived and travelled, Christians and congregations pray. Yet many Christians tell me they struggle to pray. That prompts me to ask: Why do Christians pray? Do we have…
People have been coming to this continent in a more or less steady stream for the past few hundred years. It was once fashionable to call the early waves of these newcomers “settlers,”…
About 20 years ago, my wife Erika and I lived in a house with a beautiful stream running behind it. During that period, I was worried, couldn’t sleep well and…
Lists of people, long lists – archives have lots of them. As I type up the names, my mind wanders. I lose my place and have to reorient myself. It’s…
I’ve been saying it for years. Those in the evangelical tradition who are perceived to be either liberal or conservative are not that different from one another. An endless cycle…
“Oh my God! Oh my God!” gushed Sister Sophia, meeting us as we disembarked the bus. The nun in her sky-blue habit wasn’t taking God’s name in vain…
“Is your preferred religious movement growing? I don’t care. Is it shrinking? I don’t care. Does it provide social cohesion? I don’t care…. Here’s what matters: trying to discern what’s…
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