Independent School Growth
IF YOUR CHILDREN or grandchildren attend an independent Christian school, they are part of a growing trend. Independent school enrolments are increasing while public school enrolments are declining.
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The Politics of Words
Christians who take responsible citizenship seriously would do well to ask questions of every call to action that uses hot button words, avoid those that erode our political culture, and choose to spend energy and resources in more positive ways.
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Indigenous | News | Politics | Theology
Seven Generations
Thankfully, “Mush Hole” Indian Residential School no longer exists. Its horrific legacy, however, remains. It is hard to know how to address the harms my parents’ generation (unwittingly?) caused our Indigenous neighbours, who also acknowledge they are made in the image of the Creator and who clearly live in a world infused with the Creator’s presence. But now we are aware, and are thus both implicated and responsible.
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Another kind of justice
Public awareness that courts and the police don’t work like Law and Order shows on TV is a good thing. But loss of public confidence in our justice system is a serious issue, especially when it is deepest among groups who feel like they are on the margins.
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Remembering Expo ‘67
Last month I suggested that we might give thanks to God for blessing us with the public legal community known as the state. This month I will be more specific: let us give thanks for Canada’s 150 years and pray for many more.
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The meaning of ethics
On the political level, Conservatives found a way to damage the image of the Liberals; the Liberals are showing that Conservatives did the same thing, and New Democrats claim that both of the other parties are unethical. From a public perspective, the larger damage is further decline in the level of trust of all political leaders, which is already low. All political parties need to pay greater attention to that.
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Celebrating our institutions with Reformed roots
What value do Reformed institutions give to Christians in Canada today? From our places of work to education to worship and culture, their influence and impact are all around us, often in ways we don’t realize.
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Something to celebrate
At the checkout I noticed a basketful of stylized maple leaf pins, commemorating Canada’s 150th birthday.
“Amazing,” I said to the clerk. “I remember when Canada turned 100. We had a similar maple leaf symbol back then. Suddenly I feel old.”
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Security on the Hill
The Hill Lobby Day provides a great opportunity for farm representatives to bring key messages directly from grassroots members to the federal leaders.
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Budget 2017: ‘Strong, fair Canada’ depends on strong, fair childhoods
Kathy takes a look at the 2017 National Budget with an eye toward how it deals with children and youth issues.
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How 18th-century Virginians nearly made the United States more like Canada
Two-hundred thirty years ago America’s founders met in Philadelphia to hammer out a new constitution that would bring the 13 newly independent states together into an innovative kind of union: a federal union based on a separation of powers among legislative, executive and judicial branches of government. At least this is what Americans have been led to believe over the centuries.
