On July 21, 2026, the Lord called Brian Doerksen home after decades of faithful service in Christian music. It was unexpected; he was diagnosed with stage four cancer only weeks earlier. He was 60 years old. Doerksen, an internationally cherished songwriter, producer and mentor from Abbotsford, British Columbia, began his ministry in the 1980s as…
The simple beauty of the Shakers’ carefully-crafted buildings and furniture has left its mark on American design. But who founded this movement, one that included upwards of 6,000 followers at its height in the 1840s? This question compelled director Mona Fastvold to develop a biopic billed as a musical, The Testament of Ann Lee. The…
At four years of age, I decided to learn how to write. I sprawled on the living room carpet, placed a blank page over a flattened Smarties box, and traced the letters. Then I ran to the kitchen, triumphantly presenting the sheet to my mother, exclaiming, “I can write!” She observed, “You copied a Smarties…
On November 10, a Saskatchewan court held a justiciability hearing with big implications on the future of coal burning in the province. Five months earlier, on June 18, Saskatchewan’s Minister for Crown Corporations Jeremy Harrison had informed SaskPower staff that the province would ignore the federal Clean Electricity Regulations and keep coal “a pillar” of…
Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me?” (2 Kings 20:8) King Hezekiah was seriously sick when the prophet Isaiah came to tell him to set his house in order because he would soon die. Hezekiah was heartbroken and cried to God for more time. God sent Isaiah…
One winter Saturday, I was slated to play the pump organ at St. John the Divine Anglican Church for a wedding. The building is unheated except for a wood stove. No electricity. No plumbing. Lots of history, though. It is a beautiful worship space with good acoustics for singing. When I was warming up (pun intended) the…
“You can’t understand what it means to us when you come to us in this hard time,” the bishop said. It was our first day in the West Bank: a dozen Canadians on a 10-day Solidarity Pilgrimage hosted by Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem. Despite only living four miles away from where we…
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