“Creator’s blessing rests on the ones who are hunted down and mistreated for doing what is right, for they are walking the good road from above.” Can you recognize one of the Beatitudes in that sentence? It’s Matthew 5:10 in The First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament, a dynamic equivalence translation….
In his boldly-titled blog post “Beauty will Save the World,” Dr. Curt Thompson urges readers to find and create beauty in art and the natural world even, and especially, during the stress of a global pandemic. He argues that noticing and creating beauty brings us into the present moment.
The church has often been at the forefront of emergency response to natural disasters, but it’s not as well-prepared to address public health crises, Dr. Jamie Aten told Christian Courier. Aten is the founder and Executive Director of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute (HDI) at Wheaton College in Illinois. Since COVID-19 hit North America in March, Aten and his colleagues have poured all their disaster-response knowledge into helping churches respond.
Kent Annan considers the current world-wide refugee crisis “a chance for the church to shine.” His new book You Welcomed Me will be released on November 27, 2018 to encourage churches to help and welcome refugees. Annan spoke with Christian Courier about this upcoming book in August. In his words, “This topic is actually a spiritual topic. We can decide how hospitable – or not – to be.”
“It is tough to see God’s goodness when you have not eaten in three days,” Msenwa Oliver Mweneake says, “when your parents may not be alive, your childhood village is gone and there are dead bodies all around.”
When reading the Bible for the first time, Blackmer was struck by how often Jesus would go up a mountain, into the wilderness or to a lonely place to pray. Rooted in Jesus’ prayer practice, Church of the Woods offers its small core congregation and those who visit from far-flung places a chance to connect with God and each other in this rugged woods, a “scrabbly, scruffy, somewhat mysterious” corner of creation.
EduDeo Ministries recently celebrated one year of operations at their new office location at in Hamilton, Ontario. The new office space is named “Campus 621” for the street address (621 Barton St. East), and their goal is for this place to be “a space where people will work together for local and global renewal.”
“Let’s ensure that all live well and die well.” Physician Naheed Dosani gave his audience this challenge at a TEDx event in Stouffville, Ontario last year. “Let’s ensure that everyone has a dignified death. It is often said that the best way to judge a society is by how it treats its most vulnerable.”
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