We are an increasingly visual culture, so it is good to learn from a long Christian tradition of showing the faith through images. Eve Tibbs, Orthodox Christian and professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, an evangelical bastion, addresses this challenge with her lovely book Seeing the Gospel: An Interpretive Guide to Orthodox Icons. Intriguingly, prestigious Calvinist…
My grandparents, together with other post-WWII Dutch immigrants animated by Kuyperian thinking, immediately began building Christian schools in their new land of Canada. Eventually, they also built Christian universities. Redeemer College was established in 1981, just down the road from the Christian day schools my grandparents helped build. Reformed colleges had already been established in…
After the 1517 Reformation, the relationship between mainstream Protestant Reformers and Anabaptists was characterized by bitter hostility and systematic persecution. What began as theological disagreement escalated into violence that would define centuries of Christian division. At the conflict’s center lay a seemingly simple question: when should Christians be baptized? While reformers like Luther and Calvin…
I have an empty maple syrup can on my desk to keep spare pencils in, but in the local grocery store maple syrup comes in small glass bottles with weird little round handles near the top. My friend wanted to know what the handles were for, so of course I told her that in Ontario…
“Aren’t you ever afraid of sleep?” my little sister asked once. “Anyone could break in and you wouldn’t know.” She’s right. There’s a surrender in becoming insensible to the world around you. Sleep scares us because it’s a dress rehearsal for death. “Lazarus is sleeping,” Jesus tells his disciples. “Lazarus is dead.” Death is the…
My husband and I are not traditional missionaries. In our decades of work in Canada and around the world, we have never properly fit in any box. We have perpetually struggled to bridge the gap between what is ‘ministry’ and what is ‘vocation.’ We started young. We spent our university years learning how to evangelize…
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