Editorial

It makes good sense to partner these days. It really does.

Given the turmoil the world is currently in maybe it’s time for Christians to practice intentional, active weakness – modeled on Christ’s example.

Witvoet ponders the respectable idolatry of being a Christian and a sports fan and the better country that we should all be longing (and working) for.

Until recently, the taxonomy of plants – their names and classification – has remained fairly stable. Plants have been identified and categorized on the basis of morphological features; that is, on the basis of characteristics that we can observe with nothing more than a magnifying glass. Roses, for example, share common features that allow us to classify every kind of rose as a rose.

It was a week of things coming apart. A line from W.B. Yeats ran through my head on repeat: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”

Why does Christian Courier still exist in 2014? How can a print biweekly compete in the digital Information Age? As an Editor half the age of the newspaper I work for, I wrestle with these questions, and more.