CC: You describe yourselves as “two white, American, millennial, gay and bi Christian women.” Yet your first Car Chats video is about vegetarian tacos, your favourite Harry Potter characters, music, pet peeves, personal quirks. Why did you begin your channel like that?Joey: I really wanted to bring it down to the most basic human level….
The first Liberation began in Utrecht. It was August 1944, after the Synod of Reformed Churches in the Netherlands kicked Klaas Schilder out of the denomination. It was a disagreement over common grace. This decision triggered one of the largest Dutch church splits since the Reformation. Over the next two years, 80,000 people followed Schilder…
Whatever is happening in your life right now, my prayer for you is for breath, perspective and joy: that you can take in great lungfuls of fresh air as needed, sparking some amazement for how that fuels us and also eases tense minds; That you might slip outside the edges of all the rules into…
“We’re not going into lockdown, but Wuhan is being very cautious and taking measures that are eerily similar to what happened a year ago,” Rebecca Franks says. “Now some gates are being locked again to control the flow of people into and out of our apartment complex. No new cases here. Just a very precautious…
Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth,……..bring sunshine into every room, pass out smiles like peppermints. What tricks you must have played, having an identical twin sister, so alike that even your father had to tickle you both and watch for Paula’s dimple to say, “Oh, that one’s Ali!” Worship the Lord with…
Christian Courier has a small staff – eight people, all across Canada. Because we work from home already, the pandemic didn’t change our work habits . . . but it did add some wrinkles when it came to child care! Kids we taught during “distance learning” while still doing CC work: 12 Kids currently being…
By a wide margin, the most-viewed article on our website this year was Lloyd Rang’s column called “The upside of COVID-19.” Despite the title, this was not a feel-good fluff piece; it was an honest examination of the challenges we were all facing in March. And it clearly resonated with you, as it was read…
This editorial is a revised version of the speech Angela gave over Zoom in November as the recipient of Redeemer University’s 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award for her 12 years as Editor of CC. When I started with Christian Courier in January 2009, Prime Minister Stephen Harper had just prorogued parliament, Barack Obama was inaugurated and…
My friend’s son came home from his first week of school, saying “Mom, now we have to guess our spelling words; the teacher doesn’t say them anymore.” “That can’t be right!” she replied, asking more questions until she understood his confusion. His class has been merged with another grade for the first time, and while…
For five months now, we’ve sheltered-in-place and hoped that would beat the pandemic. We’re grieving our losses, braced for the next plot twist. It feels like we’ve left the literature section and entered science fiction. Headlines have an apocalyptic tone. “What is it all for?” Frodo, bone-weary with his burden, asks Sam in The Two Towers.
Earlier this year, the Canada Corp. of the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) of North America sent a letter to churches announcing upcoming changes to the structure and leadership of the Canadian side of the binational church (as reported in “Context Matters,” Feb. 21, and “Two National Expressions,” May 11, both by Angela Reitsma Bick). In an attempt to understand the restructuring process currently underway, and to discuss some of the related concerns of members of the CRC in Canada…
On June 26, the Canadian Christian Communicators Association (CCCA) held its annual Awards Ceremony online. During the hour-long celebration, Christian Courier’s name came up regularly as our writers and staff received awards in 10 different categories, including four first-place awards! CCCA President John Longhurst hosted the Awards, given for work published in faith-based publications in 2019.
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