When we bought Eskerhazy Farm in 1991, we had an active beaver colony living on the northwest corner of the property. They had created a large pond which was full of all sorts of wildlife, from shoveler ducks, mallards and teal to muskrats and a moose with her calf, the two of them standing up…
Across Canada, many Christian boards and church councils carry an unspoken expectation: composure equals competence. Especially in governing meetings, and particularly for the most senior staff leader, emotions are often subdued, if not quietly discouraged. The intent is understandable. Boards want clarity, objectivity and wise decision-making. (Have you ever seen a synod or church council…
“A country that cannot feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself has few options,” said Prime Minister Mark Carney in his speech at the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland, on January 20, 2026. Less than four days later, the federal government announced plans to reduce its workforce and shut down seven research stations…
In Prime Minister Mark Carney’s famous Davos address, he offered up a phrase that deserves reflection beyond its political moment: “Nostalgia is not a strategy.” For churches shaped by deep memory and long tradition, the line names a familiar temptation: the quiet drift from faithful remembrance into paralyzing idealization. That is, trying to do what…
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…
There is a modern-day idiom: “Drive it like you stole it!” It implies that if the driver does not own the car, they will recklessly mistreat it. Ownership makes all the difference in the care given toward an object. In working with churches, charities and Christian schools, I often think of this idiom. I’ve seen…
Earlier this year, the United Nations issued a warning that humanity has two years left to take urgent action on addressing climate change. The historic heat waves, ravaging wildfires and surprise floods of Summer 2024 underscored this warning. The Insurance Bureau of Canada reports that Summer 2024 was the costliest on record, with seven billion…
From name to business model, New Jubilee in northeast Edmonton exists to share a uniquely situated bit of creation even beyond the 50-year timeframe for redistribution prescribed in the biblical Jubilee. People come to band birds, hold events in the on-site yurt, tour the forest and participate in two thriving U-pick operations: Lady Flower Gardens…
“Hunting grizzly bears is the best thing you can do for grizzly bears,” said wildlife artist and outdoorsman Casey Braam. That’s a controversial opinion in B.C., where a recent poll says that 84 percent of the province is in favour of the current ban on grizzly hunting. Braam gets it. He didn’t always think this…
A commentator from the U.K. says this about our landscapes: “It’s about wildness, whether we’re talking about our gardens or the wider countryside. Nature hates neat. What wildlife needs is often the scruffy patches and the bits around the edge. Across the country, we’re losing a lot of our scruffiness.” A friend of mine (now deceased) used…
I’m seated by a river called Snaring. Clouds pile like white laundry on the mountain faces that surround this Jasper vista. The river rushes by and one wonders how a river knows to rush or a waterfall to fall, and that neither ever stops. My friend and her family are here with us and she…
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