At the end of January, Alberta’s government implemented a set of policies that require schools to communicate more with parents about sexual orientation and gender identity issues. Teachers in the province now need to give parents notice before covering any human sexuality topics. Students under the age of 15 also need parental permission if they…
Jonathan Boone is vice principal at Vernon Christian School and a frequent Christian Courier writer. As discussions about parental rights continue to unfold in our communities this school year, we reached out to Jonathan to talk about some of the underlying issues – trust, justice and healthy communication. Christian Courier: What topics in your courses…
The collection of mostly-donated books had been housed in various spots around the church for years. Finally, it landed in an out-of-the-way Sunday school classroom. When the church librarian left, no one was interested in taking over. So Edmonton’s Inglewood Christian Reformed Church (CRC) made the decision to dismantle its library last summer. The church…
In late November, CBC news reported that Crandall University terminated the employment of John G. Stackhouse Jr., professor of religious studies, for allegations of inappropriate behavior. After a six-month independent investigation, the Christian liberal arts university in New Brunswick decided that some of Stackhouse’s jokes, stories, emails and classroom behaviour amounted to sexual harassment. Stackhouse…
“Hunting grizzly bears is the best thing you can do for grizzly bears,” said wildlife artist and outdoorsman Casey Braam. That’s a controversial opinion in B.C., where a recent poll says that 84 percent of the province is in favour of the current ban on grizzly hunting. Braam gets it. He didn’t always think this…
A new documentary mini-series on Amazon Prime called Shiny Happy People tells the hidden stories of the Duggar family from 19 Kids and Counting, and it also draws attention to the problems with a particular type of cult-like homeschooling that became popular in evangelical communities in the 1980s and 90s – Bill Gothard’s Advanced Training…
For more than four years, I’ve worked at a desk over here on the west coast, connected only by pixels and faith to the folks I call my coworkers. Which might be fine if your fellow employees are loud chewers or toe tappers, but as far as I knew, the rest of the CC team…
Justice, reconciliation and building relationships were at the heart of the Christian Reformed Church’s (CRC) Canadian National Gathering held in Ottawa in May. The four-day conference was an opportunity to hear from Christian indigenous leaders and elders who shared their stories and challenged the largely white audience to sit, listen and learn. Most of the…
In May, Christian communicators from across Canada gathered at Crieff Hills Retreat Centre outside Guelph, Ontario to celebrate the best in faith-based journalism from the past year. Christian Courier took home 14 awards, a new record for us! Many of the other publications competing for these prizes enjoy funding from larger denominations or para-church organizations….
A new president, a closing Theatre department, a massive influx in international students, and, as of March, the faculty are unionised. A lot has changed in the past five years at Trinity Western University (TWU) in Langley, B.C., Canada’s biggest Christian liberal arts school. On March 10, after covid-related delays, TWU faculty finally received confirmation…
For more than a decade, Lynnette Postuma walked past a massive cinder block wall on her way to work in downtown Toronto. Expansive grey walls are a staple in urban transportation corridors, but Postuma began to dream of new possibilities. In 2017, she entered a competition to paint the 12,000 square foot space. “The problem…
Allen Plug is a Calvin University-trained Ontologist working for Cycorp, a company that has developed an artificially intelligent hospital advisor. Plug knows how to talk to robots, or – to be more precise – he is an expert in semantic knowledge representation. He’s also Canadian and has lived in Saskatchewan, B.C. and Ontario. Do you…
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