A new word caught my attention: thrutopia. Not utopia or dystopia but thrutopia. Not false hope or looming fear but a future of travelling through. That feels like a timely word and a necessary vision these days. The word itself has been around for nearly a decade. It was first suggested by the environmental philosopher…
British thinker and podcaster Elizabeth Oldfield has given the English-speaking world a gift via her first book, Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times. This title comes from a quotation by St. Irenaeus, born in Smyrna (now Izmar) in AD 130: “The glory of God is a human being fully alive.” Oldfield explores…
When a Christian Reformed Church (CRC) pastor prayed a prayer lifting up Indigenous ways of being, Shannon Perez recalls feeling for the first time as if “I could belong here as my full self.” At the time, Perez was a young volunteer member of the CRC’s Canadian Aboriginal Ministry Committee (now known as the Canadian…
For Peter Noteboom, General Secretary of the Canadian Council of Churches (CCC), the election of Pope Leo XIV suggests the Roman Catholic Church intends to continue in the way of his predecessor, Pope Francis. “He has indicated that he wants to continue Pope Francis’ teaching on synodality, human rights, concerns about globalization and of the…
We’re in our corner. There’s a thermos of Douwe Egberts coffee on the table. Today Pete is the server. Instead of Gemberkoek, we have apple pie, which Broekie pulled out of a bag and set beside the thermos. So Broekie brought the pie, though we know Corrie baked it. He hands a plate to each of us and slices the pie into six pieces.
Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), also called “gag orders” or “confidentiality agreements,” were originally designed to protect trade secrets and proprietary information. Emerging during the tech boom of the 1990s, NDAs served a legitimate purpose in Silicon Valley: keeping sensitive business information out of competitors’ hands. Over the past three decades, however, these agreements have spread far…
In today’s hyperconnected world, information comes at us fast and furious, from every direction – earthquakes, wars, culture wars. Because we are human and emotionally wired, it’s natural that these things provoke us and inflame our hearts to want to do something. Yet what can we do with this abundance of troublesome information aside from…
Sister Julia Walsh’s memoir opens with her feeling intense pain and tasting blood. She describes falling from a cliff near her childhood home and sustaining life-threatening injuries. In this broken state, she cries out: God, help me. At the time of this fall, Walsh was 25-years-old and fresh into her training period as a Franciscan…
In the preface to Rags of Light, Brian Walsh describes his new book as an attempt to “bring [Leonard] Cohen and Scripture together within the context of our present cultural realities and spiritual struggles and see what happens.” The book takes its shape from a series of lectures Walsh gave as part of an online…
One of the poets-translators involved in the 1973 Dutch psalter-hymnal, Jan Wit, wrote the hymn “The Word That Called You Into Life.” It is no. 7 in the Liedboek voor de kerken and set to the melody of Psalm 113 in the Genevan psalter. Here is the final verse: “Rondom u klinkt de stem van…
For the March issue’s theme on Translation, CC’s Editor interviewed Dr. Albert M. Wolters, emeritus Professor of Religion at Redeemer University and a biblical scholar who translated one of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Here, Dr. Wolters tells the story of being invited to view the actual Copper Scroll in Jordan and what happened after he…
My friends said that we should have a name for our coffee club, so we decided to call ourselves the Young People of Yesteryear (YPOY). Douwe, smiling, said, “The Y P bothers me a little. It’s more like how to P today.” We all laughed at that. “In the past, it was a stream . . .” he paused for a few seconds, until Broekie shouted, “of iniquities!” and without missing a beat, Douwe said, “Yes, now it’s more drops of blessing.”
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