Last August, Christian Courier (CC) began a pilot project called Enemy Pen Pals. The plan was to connect CC readers who may disagree on a few key issues and invite them into regular correspondence with each other – the goal being not consensus but empathy. An open invitation went out in August, and by early…
“We can only properly do redemptive journalism if our eyes are open to the dangerous times around us.” This statement from Brian Walsh was just one of many profound moments during Christian Courier’s 80th anniversary conference on October 18. Walsh said journalism should center around the act of homemaking, and if the scene in the…
Dear reader, we’ve come to a leap-of-faith moment in this publication’s life. You’ve trusted Angela to curate redemptive news for you for the past 16 years, and many of you have trusted an editor or two before her. Now, as she steps down at the end of 2025, we’re asking you to trust us too…
When you’re a journalist, the story you are interested in isn’t always the story you find, so you have to think how to bring the two together. That was an insight I heard from Miles Smit, a participant in the summer intensive programme “God in the City”, held in Toronto this August. I had not…
At age 11 I published my first newspaper, dubbing it Life and Times. Hand-printed on leftover notebook pages, produced in triplicate using carbon paper, the price was two cents per copy. Featured stories included: where I had gone on my bike that day; how my dog stole a package of cigarettes from the neighbour’s patio;…
I’ve been with the Christian Courier for a year now, and it’s been such a joy. Looking back on this year of columns, including the one the editors wisely rejected, I asked myself what common thread runs through them. It is, simply, the Christian life. It’s a wonderfully inexhaustible topic, if there ever was one!…
As a result of a misguided new law and the stubbornness of big tech companies, the Canadian news industry faces digital extinction. On June 22, the Canadian government passed Bill C-18, also known as the Online News Act. This new piece of legislation requires big tech companies like Google and Meta to pay news publications…
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