Last fall I met Bishop Beda Robles at the Lausanne 4 Congress in Korea. He told me about the surprising strength of the church in Doha, Qatar – a small nation on the Arabian Peninsula – and of his hopes…
Nigel Biggar knows something about being critically received, but he was probably surprised when he learned that his alma mater had cancelled his lecture planned for March 6. Biggar had been scheduled to deliver a talk on ‘Colonialism Revisited: Did…
It’s that time of year. When I get up early to go to the gym, and as I drive, I can see the lovely tangerine glow behind Mount Baker in the Cascade Mountains. The sun is starting to come up,…
Canadian Christian organizations, led by KAIROS Canada, are calling on Canadians to join a global movement to end the mounting global debt crisis by signing the Canadian petition for Jubilee 2025. The petition, which aims to collect 100,000 signatures in…
Brad Kinnie posted this comment on his LinkedIn page recently. It is re-posted here by permission. In Canada and the United States, there is a lot of news and misinformation relating to migrants and asylum seekers. I am so thankful…
As a Palestinian Christian living in Vancouver, I find myself inhabiting multiple realities during the unfolding devastation in Gaza. While recent ceasefire negotiations have brought hope through the reunion of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners with their families, history shows…
This article is part of a series called ‘Christianity: a missionary religion.’ As I said in the introduction to the series, mostly, I’ll look at recently published books. It is encouraging to see that, while most churches and Christian bookstores have largely…
“Divine Wisdom is superior to artificial intelligence,” Canadian AI technologist Joanna Ng told watchers of the American Scientific Affiliation AI and Christianity live webcast during the organization’s Winter Symposium this past weekend. Rosalind Picard, founder and director of the Affective Computing…
The Evangelical Fellowship (EFC) of Canada submitted a stakeholders report January 24 to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, for its 32nd session, March 3 – 21, 2025. Following is the beginning of the eight-page report. Report…
This article is based on the author’s presentation at the Fourth Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization held in Seoul, Korea last September. (Go here for other posts about Lausanne 4 on this site.) God’s love for the needy and vulnerable has…