International students in Canada are often framed statistically, economically and politically – as a population surge, a strain on resources and, increasingly, a problem to be managed and reduced. And these narratives about international students are often told without their voices being heard. In past decades, Canada has been welcoming to international students. I, myself,…
“What gives us permission to disregard Jesus’ prayer for unity in John 17:20-23, and to split and start yet another denomination?” Recently, I have been asked this question and variants of it. Christian Reformed (CRC) churches and folks are wrestling with questions of disaffiliation and forming a new denomination or network of churches. Given the…
“You cannot be neutral about this!” That was what a senior denominational leader in the Christian Reformed Church (CRC) told me last Spring, during a dispute over an editorial. I was the editor in chief of the CRC’s magazine, The Banner, until July 2025 when I resigned in protest. In that disputed editorial, I wrote…
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