Author: Brad Childs

Brad was raised in a small Amish community in Kansas, but today is the minister at Fairview Presbyterian Church in Vancouver. He sits on the board of both Presbyterian College, Montreal, and McGill’s Montreal School of Theology. He lives with his wife Tracy and their three children, and is working on a humour book of short stories.
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    Everything is Art

    ByBrad Childs

    Every week, I ask our church community what’s helping them get through the pandemic. As a minister, the answers I receive sometimes smack of that old joke from Sunday school where every answer is “Jesus!” no matter what the kids might first think. And, honestly, that answer is correct. For every Christian (I hope), Jesus…

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    Somebody Stole Jesus

    ByBrad Childs

    Many years ago, just as television was turning from black and white to colour, a very special episode of a show called Dragnet aired. It was Christmas Eve 1953, and in it, a man called Sargent Friday finds himself summoned to a local Catholic church to investigate an apparent burglary. The item in question? Somebody, it seems, has run off with the congregation’s nativity statue of the baby Jesus.