Moving forward via Women Talking
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Moving forward via Women Talking

Sarah Polley’s adaptation of Miriam Toews’ novel Women Talking was recognized for its powerful screenplay in the recent Academy awards. In her acceptance speech, Polley said: “A young woman delivers the last line of our film to a new baby, and she says: ‘Your story will be different from ours.”’ “It’s a promise, a commitment…

An immigrant family camping adventure
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An immigrant family camping adventure

Author, outdoors activist and founder of @BrownPeopleCamping (brownpeoplecamping.com), Ambreen Tariq relates the fictional narrative of the Khazi family, Indian immigrants to the United States who go camping for the first time. The youngest child, Fatima, has had a hard week at school. Her classmates teased her about the food she ate for lunch and the…

For a Nazareth carpenter
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For a Nazareth carpenter

For a Nazareth carpenter / who lived only 33 years / Your name sure got out.
/ It pops up all over the place.
/ I hear it at a curling event last week.
/ Books
/ movies,
/ the general public use it often.

Who picks the pictures?
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Who picks the pictures?

Last April, as Russia’s invasion into Ukraine was still fresh on the news and the reports of war crimes were leaking out, I received a folder of images from a news correspondent with the permission to print them in Christian Courier. The images were gut-wrenching, taken by civilians as ground-level evidence of Russian war crimes….

An overview of a worrying development
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An overview of a worrying development

The Flag + the Cross is a short primer on what Christian nationalism is and how it operates in the United States today. Drawing on its deep roots in American history, the authors explain central themes, such as beliefs that the United States is uniquely a Christian nation, a chosen people, blessed by God, with…

So that nothing worse happens to you
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So that nothing worse happens to you

His sick and mine might’bin
/ more related than I understood
/ first time reading the story,
/ might be more in common now
/ thinking about it, how before
/ all the unwell and broken would
/ go, and if prohibited by their
/ ailment or otherwise, would be
/ brought, so they would be healed;
/ only not this time.

Contagious strength
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Contagious strength

“Do it scared,” Karene-Isabelle Jean-Baptiste tells entrepreneurs. After almost 20 years as an engineer, Montreal-based Jean-Baptiste became a full-time photographer in 2019. She couldn’t have known that covid would hit the world a year later. Nor could she have known that a photography series she “did scared” would get national media attention, launching her new…

Surrender and a new beginning
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Surrender and a new beginning

“I am in awe of the poetic power of the scriptures, how you can’t approach the subject of God without metaphor.” So writes Bono late in his wide-ranging and engaging memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. The artist cannot tell his story, or the remarkable story of U2, apart from Christian faith, or apart from…

Is your Bible study biased?
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Is your Bible study biased?

This is a rigorous, concise and entertaining book for anyone interested in the history and function of Scripture, and how the current approach to study and interpretation of the Bible can be improved. Hahn and Wilker pull you into history to show how apparently old theological and political disputes are relevant to Biblical studies today….

Don’t give up on downtown
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Don’t give up on downtown

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…

The symbolism that surrounds us
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The symbolism that surrounds us

The Symbolic World is a podcast hosted by Canadian Orthodox icon-carver Jonathan Pageau. It explores “symbolism in all its forms, from its source in sacred stories and images to contemporary culture and ultimately how it shapes the very world we encounter.” The symbolism explored is not merely about religious images. Instead, the podcast unpacks what…

Family Links
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Family Links

My mother came to visit recently and brought a gift that surprised me. It was a gold chain, one of the pieces of jewellery she has worn most often. She gave it to me as I was helping her unpack, and at first, I wasn’t sure if she meant it. The chain sits secure in…