Timely and timeless
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Timely and timeless

“Reading the morning newspaper is the realist’s morning prayer,” quipped the philosopher Hegel. If he’s right, what does this reveal about my own heart when I groggily reach for my smartphone upon waking up, scrolling through headlines before even a word of prayer to God or a verse of Scripture? Jeffrey Bilbro’s Reading the Times…

Sir John & King Jeroboam in an Age of Decolonization
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Sir John & King Jeroboam in an Age of Decolonization

The Pope is coming to Canada next week, with stops planned for Edmonton, Quebec and Iqaluit. He will visit Indigenous, Inuit and Métis communities to speak with and listen to elders, church leaders and survivors of residential schools. This comes on the heels of the Pope’s meeting with Indigenous and Métis leaders in the Vatican,…

In the shadow of doubt
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In the shadow of doubt

How did the West turn away from Christian faith? Beginning in the 18th century philosophers and scientists made it difficult to believe in God; by the 1960s, pop culture caught up to their earlier intellectual attacks. And thus we Christians find ourselves today in a thoroughly secular society. Or so goes the usual answer. Not…

Christ in the Centre of the Classroom

Christ in the Centre of the Classroom

This small book can be read in one sitting but will take a long time to digest. Adam Neder’s Theology as a Way of Life is neither an introduction to theology nor to pedagogy (although it contains helpful elements of both). It’s a personal meditation by a professor who has long struggled with what it means to teach Christianity in a manner consistent with its centre: Jesus Christ.