“That pipeline has to happen for our country.” Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston delivered this statement during a CBC interview on January 28. Houston said that a bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the north coast of B.C. is key to national unity. He was commenting on a memorandum of understanding signed between the government of…
We had just moved to our present farm and were getting started with chickens and gardening. There was even a beaver pond on our property! Our neighbour, who rented the hay field, was mowing next to the beaver pond when a duck flew off her nest and right into the mower. John climbed down, looked…
Nestled in a busy urban area near Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Peña de Horeb Christian School is seeing the fruit of an initiative: “I Like and Take Care of the Community Where I Live.” The project began several years ago as teachers at the school sought to answer a simple but profound question: How can…
Looking back at 2025, there was both good and bad news about how we are caring for the world that our Lord has entrusted to us. First, the good news: this past year, for the first time, power generated by solar and wind exceeded coal-generated power. Energy from environmentally friendly sources is now the cheapest…
It can be difficult to define beauty. In his new book, Wesley Vander Lugt understands beauty to be traces of divine glory in the natural world and in human culture. He aims to show readers why beauty’s impact is necessary to a vibrant faith and hope. Vander Lugt, a teacher of theology and a director…
“Poetry may seem to be an indirect way of speaking, but it’s more direct in touching the affective, relational part of us. It’s the language of the heart for those who have ears to hear. It’s especially valuable to read Christian poetry.”– D.S. Martin, in a 2024 Faith Today interview D.S. Martin’s latest book, The…
Ruffed grouse exist in nearly every province and territory in Canada except for Nunavut. They are creatures of forests. When forests and woodlots are isolated – such as parts of the lower mainland of B.C. and southern Ontario farming country – the grouse disappear. When I was a child, I heard my dad talk about…
Snow settles like psalmson the cathedral of pines,each flake a whispered prayerin winter’s deep silence. Through frosted windowpanesI watch the sacred dance –crystalline choreographyof mercy falling soft and slow. The evergreens bowbeneath their white vestments,patient bearers of winter’s weight,keeping faithful vigil in the cold. And somewhere beneaththis blanket of grace,dormant seeds waitin their earthen chapel,…
Engaging in the arts can be a deeply spiritual act – an expression of worship, reflection and even healing. Through creating, we can enter a space where faith and imagination meet, where the Spirit speaks not only through words but also through images. This fall, I joined a Christian art therapy group hosted virtually by Genesis…
“Ave, ave,” soar the stereo boy-voicesas I hang the blue-robed Virgenand her naked Niñofrom the top of the tree.A cubit below the fatherless Holy Family, I tethertheir tin burro to a branch.The mother and child are all of a piece,a single piece of cutout hammered metalwrought by the peasant handsand fingers of the Oaxaca women’s…
Christmas may not look the same for me now that I’m blind, but it means even more than it used to. My memories of the season are blurred around the edges – the powder-white world is a little more grey, the sparkle of stars a little less bright – and while the lights of the…
Christmas is a time of year when familiar stories are shared. These are tales we’ve memorized, recited and passed along. When my children were young, we kept a special box of Christmas books. Stories included W. G. Van de Hulst’s The Search for Christmas and A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Perhaps there’s a familiar…
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