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Church Life | News | Politics
Renew the Christian roots of Canada’s health care system
Joe Gunn examines the role Christians have played in the in the turbulent history of health care in Canada.
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Church Life | News | Politics
The fullness of life: Palliative care in Canada
“Let’s ensure that all live well and die well.” Physician Naheed Dosani gave his audience this challenge at a TEDx event in Stouffville, Ontario last year. “Let’s ensure that everyone has a dignified death. It is often said that the best way to judge a society is by how it treats its most vulnerable.”
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Church Life | Disability | Family Life | Interview | News
Loving Samuel: Joy, blessing, laughter, gift
Since the birth of their son Samuel two years ago, Amy and Rich DeKorte have learned so much about Down Syndrome and experienced God’s remarkable work in their lives. In an email interview, Christian Courier asked Amy and Rich to share their family’s story.
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Water of life
When we drink water, we are not filling up a water storage tank in our abdomen that is waiting to be topped up periodically. Rather, our bodies are actually made up of about 60 percent water, and it is distributed not only in the blood running through our veins, but also throughout the cells and spaces that make up every part of our body. We have an entire organ system (kidneys) devoted to making sure we have the right balance of water in our bodies at all times, as well as a complex network of hormones interacting in feedback loops to manage it all.
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Big pharma ad campaigns
I don’t consider myself to be an apologist for the pharmaceutical industry, though in the past I have tended to defend more than attack them. I have pointed out the need for a reasonable profit margin for these companies in order for them to adequately fund the ongoing research and development of new and better medications. The operative word here has always been “reasonable.”
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Small blessings
Sometimes blessings come in the form of an adult sized single bed. The only one available in town.
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Church Life | News | Theology
A moms’ getaway: Finding time for rest
About a year ago, I was interviewing the director of Crieff Hills Community Retreat and Conference Centre, and mentioned that I’d love to attend a retreat for moms with young children at Crieff. His reply? “Well, start planning one!”
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Church Life | Media | News
CC subscriptions increasing despite tough times for publishing
Last fall, CC launched a subscription campaign with an audacious goal: to gain 500 new subscribers by the end of January.
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Severe mercy after tragedy
Here were God’s people, descendants of slaves, living in continuing grief, praying for compassion, justice and forgiveness without vengeance. They were consciously and boldly maintaining a small ecosystem of Grace in a city, state and nation that would soon elect as President a man whose campaign championed racist slogans and xenophobia.
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Canada 150 celebrations focus on country’s future
Understanding our history and thinking about our future may help cure the short-term thinking that plagues politics by asking what kind of country we want Canada to be before we reach our 200th anniversary.
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God’s infinite love:
After their son’s suicide, Chris and Christy knew they wanted to make something good come out of this tragedy. They knew they wanted to speak out about the danger of depression and to challenge the stigma around mental illness. “If we kept it all hush-hush, then we’ve lost our son and nothing good comes of it and Satan wins. We’ve tried to make the best of a bad situation and bring glory to God. There’s an opportunity for grace and . . . awareness, talk and more openness.”
