Steve Almond has been producing print publications for decades, so he is sorry to announce that the current issue of Light Magazine will be the last. But he is quick to add that its days are far from over. In…
With the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity upon us (January 18 – 25) Nicholas Olkovich offers some background regarding the Roman Catholic Church’s evolving approach to ecumenism, spirituality and mutual learning. Ecumenism is one of those things that some…
Roughly 40 percent of all charitable organizations in Canada are religious. Their status was threatened just before Christmas, when the Standing Committee on Finance released its “Pre-Budget Consultations in Advance of the 2025 Budget” in the House of Commons on…
Did you know that according to the World Health Organization, half of all lifetime mental health cases begin by age 14? Young people are in need of mental health support, especially as the need has grown. US Surgeon General Vivek…
Union Gospel Mission (UGM) has dramatically increased its work with women over the past few years, and they recently announced another initiative. Speaking with Stephen Quinn on CBC Radio’s Early Edition, a UGM spokesperson described their temporary new overnight Women’s…
How do we as a society break free from the devastating practice of demonizing ‘those others’ that we can easily judge as wrong or even evil? Is it even possible to shift our tendency toward binary thinking that identifies people’s…
I’ve had a few interactions recently that strongly suggest to me that church tradition trumps Scripture when it comes to a definition of mission. Many Christians from a Protestant background would define mission as crossing from one culture to another…
Merry Christmas everyone. Following is the December 25 reading from A Year With C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works, which Margaret and I have managed to (almost) complete – with considerable pleasure, albeit also with catch-up sessions. (Is…
The wonder and conviction that lead us to the King. Read Matthew 2:1-11 In the film Contact, there is an emotional scene where the astronomer Ellie Arroway, played by Jodie Foster, explains to her friend her decision to venture into…
Christ Church Cathedral has a unique power of attraction – not just because of its location in the downtown core, and not just because it is Anglican, a denomination which has, at times, stood in for Canada’s national church. Arguably…