“Trauma is never the event, it’s how your body responds to an event,” says Texas-based writer and artist Jenai Auman. “Your body, your brain, your heart – you flood with stress hormones and your body is actually under duress.” Auman is completing her certification as a trauma recovery coach and writing a book on spiritual…
“I think it’s just people being stupid,” one man says. “They’re drinking or whatever. Horse-playing. They end up falling in.” “I think there is a possibility that it was foul play,” a woman says. “I also think it could be just, you know, a result of being drunk by the riverbank.” Those quotes are from…
Named the longest running cyclone in the southern hemisphere’s history, Cyclone Freddy made multiple landfalls in Africa over 34 days in February and March. Worst hit in southeastern Africa was the nation of Malawi, where the death toll has risen to over 1000 people. More than 560,000 Malawians are displaced from their homes due to…
As humans continue to use fossil fuels, carbon dioxide will continue to accumulate in the earth’s atmosphere, intensifying the impacts of climate change. Since the beginning of the industrial revolution atmospheric CO2 levels have increased by 50 percent (from 280 ppm to 420 ppm today). For the sake of a livable future world, we must…
A new president, a closing Theatre department, a massive influx in international students, and, as of March, the faculty are unionised. A lot has changed in the past five years at Trinity Western University (TWU) in Langley, B.C., Canada’s biggest Christian liberal arts school. On March 10, after covid-related delays, TWU faculty finally received confirmation…
ON April 4, the All Ontario Youth Convention (AOYC) announced that its three-day May weekend was being canceled over concerns about the main speaker’s beliefs around sexuality and marriage. The speaker that had been hired was Kevin Makins, author of Why Would Anyone Go to Church? and pastor of Eucharist Church, a congregation with affirming practices in…
Last April, as Russia’s invasion into Ukraine was still fresh on the news and the reports of war crimes were leaking out, I received a folder of images from a news correspondent with the permission to print them in Christian Courier. The images were gut-wrenching, taken by civilians as ground-level evidence of Russian war crimes….
For more than a decade, Lynnette Postuma walked past a massive cinder block wall on her way to work in downtown Toronto. Expansive grey walls are a staple in urban transportation corridors, but Postuma began to dream of new possibilities. In 2017, she entered a competition to paint the 12,000 square foot space. “The problem…
We all have seen the cost of food go up. Statistics Canada reported 11 percent higher grocery inflation in December 2022 than December 2021. You’ve probably already noticed that eggs are 17 percent more expensive than a year ago, and tomato prices increased 22 percent. Addressing hunger is more urgent than ever. In recent years,…
“Who are these people?” I asked excitedly as I walked down the aisle, my eyes darting left and right, taking in the scene. “Oh,” my friend replied casually, pausing to rest his hand on a nearby pew, “those are . . . the saints.” I stared back at him blankly. It was after school, and…
It was 1978 in Chicago. Prof. Nicholas Wolterstorff of Calvin College gave the keynote speech at the 60th anniversary celebration of the National Union of Christian Schools (NUCS). We Canadians were impressed with those Americans reaching 60 years of united action, since the Ontario Alliance of Christian Schools (OACS) was barely 25 years old. “Our”…
“What does being a church look like in the twenty-first century?” The Strays, Orphans, and Exiles podcast of Two Rivers Church based in Guelph, Ontario seeks to answer this question. They describe themselves as a diverse community of people, some “connected to church for many years,” others having left but “cautiously returning” and still others…
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