THE Anglican Church of Canada’s Council of General Synod has released Pastoral Liturgies at the Time of Death in Contexts of Medically Assisted Dying, the denomination’s first publication on the topic since Faith Seeking Understan...
(Staff) THE British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has ordered a B.C. family doctor to pay $28,100 in compensation for refusing to administer a puberty-blocking drug to a transgender-identifying 14-year-old.
(Staff) The Anglican Journal, the official newspaper of the Anglican Church of Canada, will no longer be engaged in independent journalism but instead corporate communications or PR, public relations, putting the best face on the... Read More
(Staff) IN A REPORT tabled in the House of Commons on June 17, the Special Joint Committee on Medical Assistance in Dying (AMAD) has recommended that Canada not extend the law to include euthanasia for cases where mental illness i... Read More
SIGNIFICANT numbers of young Christians in southeast Nigeria are turning to African traditional religion, including ritual practices that predate Christianity’s arrival in the 17th century. The trend has attracted public commentar... Read More
CHURCH GROWTH weighs on a lot of small church pastors. From 1994 to 2014 I served as the priest of a number of small churches in northern Ontario. Most of them were multi-point parishes. Our resources were limited. There were book... Read More
“I REALLY enjoyed the service.” “The music was so inspirational.” “The teaching time was great.” “I love that speaker, nothing boring about that!” Such comments portray two important things. Firstly, the encouraging comments of ch... Read More
‘There was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon’ (Revelation 12:7). Read More
I HAD the privilege of leading contemporary worship at a Bible camp in Canada this summer. It had been almost a quarter century since I had done so and it was a bit of a stretch. Read More
STANLEY Hauerwas once said, “In a hundred years, if Christians are known as a strange group of people who don’t kill their children and don’t kill the elderly, we will have done a great thing… If we can just be a disciplined enoug... Read More
ONE of the greatest singer-songwriters of our age and a professed Christian has died. During her 60-year career, Dolly Parton wrote more than 3,000 songs and sold more than 100 million records with hits such as “Jolene,” “My Tenne... Read More
THERE have been quite a few Bible movies over the past few decades, but most of them have focused on the well-worn stories of Moses, David, Jesus, and the like. There have been virtually none – certainly none on the big screen – a... Read More
DOLLY Parton was not the only award-winning singer-songwriter who died this past summer. In the same week, on July 21, Brian Doerksen, the composer of Refiner’s Fire, and Come, Now is the Time to Worship, died of cancer at his hom... Read More
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