Imagine a coffee shop in a small American town, its walls adorned with ninety portraits of town residents rendered by a local artist. Then, a mysterious stranger moves into town and buys the paintings one by one and gives them to the persons portrayed. This is the plot of Theo of Golden, a book self-published…
One of the overpasses along the Queen Elizabeth Way in southern Ontario is spray-painted with three short words: “They all lie.” Think about it: ‘They all lie.’ This anonymous graffiti-sociologist has captured the zeitgeist of our age profoundly. This epithet identifies a spirit that is fuelled by cynicism, suspicion, anger and even contempt. This spirit…
In team sports, it’s common for the coach to call a time-out when the game has gotten off track. At the pitching mound or hockey bench, a time-out is a brief opportunity to get back to fundamentals. After the way that the Christian Reformed Church’s (CRC) Synod handled the Human Sexuality Report (HSR), I wonder…
I’ve fallen in love with this binational denomination, warts and all. I’m a dual citizen (Canada/U.S.) and have served at Dordt University (Iowa) for 10 years while spending most of my life in Canada. I’ve worked for the Christian Reformed Church the past nine years in two binational roles: Director of Faith Formation Ministries and,…
Faith Formation Ministries staff members love to partner with congregational initiatives such as this one. It is part of our way of living out our “better together” cooperative relational model. How might your congregation benefit by taking a walk with us?
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