Camping might be the quintessential Canadian vacation. In a country with fewer than five people for every square kilometre and most of us enjoying easy access to nature, sleeping outdoors in the summer is a simple pleasure. Parks Canada even has a section of its website dedicated to learning to camp, with videos, instructions, recipes,…
The global legacy and influence of a Reformed scholar and educator will live on in Canada, with the opening of the H. Evan Runner Reading Room at Redeemer University in Ancaster, Ontario, in his honour. And what will be available for visitors to read? The personal libraries and papers of his students: two equally influential…
Ron Greidanus was born with the twin gifts of being prodigiously talented and being gay. But being born in the late 1960s, the fifth child of six to a hard-working, modestly-educated farm family in the Dutch immigrant community in Huron County, Ontario, it would take a long time before he could accept both of those…
Does Canada really need another denomination, let alone a Reformed one? Roughly 150 participants from 55 churches at the All Canada Summit, in Kitchener, Ontario, weren’t sure. But by the end of the four-day gathering (November 5-8), the Summit concluded with a hopeful “yes.” As one joyful participant said, “I feel like I have been…
The Christian Reformed Church in North America (CRCNA) held its annual general assembly in Canada last month, the first time Synod has met north of the 49th parallel since 2012. In his opening address to the delegates and guests gathered at Redeemer University in Ancaster, Ontario, the CRCNA’s General Secretary Zachary King said that 34…
When a Christian Reformed Church (CRC) pastor prayed a prayer lifting up Indigenous ways of being, Shannon Perez recalls feeling for the first time as if “I could belong here as my full self.” At the time, Perez was a young volunteer member of the CRC’s Canadian Aboriginal Ministry Committee (now known as the Canadian…
After answering over a dozen questions and providing thousands of additional explanations for their responses, hundreds of Canadians who participated in Christian Courier’s survey of members of the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) still had more to say. Close to 300 took advantage of the invitation to respond to the final open-ended query: Is there anything…
When members of the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) in Canada showed up in digital droves to say they are concerned about the future of their denomination (see pages 1,2 and 4), they also told us why. Survey participants had the option to provide context for two questions (4 and 5), and close to 500 of…
On her wedding day, Yolanda knew she wasn’t in love, but she wasn’t too worried. There was still time for that. Plus, she was in love with the idea of being married, and so was her groom. It was a quick decision and a short engagement. John (not his real name) proposed eight weeks after…
Toronto-based artist and illustrator Maia Hoekstra takes her sketchbook everywhere. For Hoekstra and, she suspects, for many neurodivergent creatives, making things is necessary: “It’s a survival tactic to pursue creativity,” she said. “I can’t not make. It is something inside me that has to come out. If I don’t make art, I feel miserable. I…
Almost 40 years ago, by accident or by the hand of God (these can look remarkably similar) we bought a decrepit old house in a very tiny rural town. We bought it only because we needed a place to live in that vicinity, it was available, and it was affordable. Oh, and there was a…
After a decade of caring for their traumatically brain-injured daughter, Harold and Janette Schuringa of Oakville think they know the answer. And an epic adventure on the Camino de Santiago last year with then 33-year-old Jen confirmed their hunch. To flourish, Jen needs challenge, community, and faith. This was not a question that Harold and…
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